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Beautiful fall light in the garden @lepigonnet (at Aix-en-Provence, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/CV32FxgoQJE/?utm_medium=tumblr

Olivia in the gardens of our hotel @lepigonnet in Aix-en-Provence. Before this was a hotel, it was a favorite spot for Cezanne to wander the gardens with his easel for different views of Mount Sainte Victoire in the distance ⛰@emiliemeinadier (at Aix-en-Provence, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/CV2mFXXNO19/?utm_medium=tumblr

The staircase of Hotel de la Marine, Paris’s newest monument. Filled with opulent 17th-century décor, this site was once home to the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne, responsible for all the furniture and art in the royal palaces. After the Revolution it became the French Navy Headquarters @hoteldelamarine (at Hôtel de la Marine) https://www.instagram.com/p/CV1R42JNXzq/?utm_medium=tumblr

I’ve only been posting to Stories these days and realize that I’ve been neglecting this grid! Here are a few from the past week in France 🇫🇷 First up is the always stylish @starrett_ at our sweet Hôtel Duc de Saint Simon (at Hôtel Duc De Saint Simon) https://www.instagram.com/p/CV0LIjIAjdc/?utm_medium=tumblr

Magnifique lunch at Le Chardenoux a few weeks ago in lovely Paris with @ajiriaki (at Le Chardenoux) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUdUCfbAH9i/?utm_medium=tumblr

Beautiful Beaune, Burgundy with @ajiriaki 🇫🇷 (at Beaune, Bourgogne, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUaXo77grSd/?utm_medium=tumblr

Editing in rainy Brooklyn while dreaming of my Seine side aperitif with these babes @ajiriaki @sonyahoferlanz (at Paris, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUXxOfLApqr/?utm_medium=tumblr

Last week at Gare de Lyon with @ajiriaki 🚂 Le Train Bleu is the most beautiful place for a quick drink at the train station before you catch your train💨 https://www.instagram.com/p/CUNJZJBg4VT/?utm_medium=tumblr

Last week in Beaune, Burgundy with @ajiriaki 🇫🇷 My phone is filled with fun scouting shots from part one of our France book project (at Beaune, Bourgogne, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUK6Ockg1_0/?utm_medium=tumblr

Another new one for Page Sargisson @pagesargissonjewelry⚡️ Model @megangabriellle Makeup @livannaswenson https://www.instagram.com/p/CTXay-zAvYS/?utm_medium=tumblr

New shoot for Page Sargisson @pagesargissonjewelry with the stunning @megangabriellle 💕 Makeup & hair by @livannaswenson https://www.instagram.com/p/CTSx5aYgxvS/?utm_medium=tumblr

New shoot for Page Sargisson @pagesargissonjewelry ✨ Model @megangabriellle Makeup @livannaswenson https://www.instagram.com/p/CTPumkSA5ll/?utm_medium=tumblr

Final batch from my D Ô E N collaboration with @kateberryberry🪴We shot in her fabulous NY Garden in the Sky, where she grows everything from cantaloupes to pears on a 16th floor terrace in Hell’s Kitchen. Thanks again for the awesome shoot @shopdoen @phoebe_dean https://www.instagram.com/p/CTDH4sildr1/?utm_medium=tumblr

More images for D Ô E N with my dear friend and collaborator @kateberryberry 💕How amazing is her new cat Charlie?! 🐆 Thanks again for the great project @shopdoen @phoebe_dean https://www.instagram.com/p/CTAOQX4gU3a/?utm_medium=tumblr

New shoot for D Ô E N with my dear friend @kateberryberry 💚 We’ve been friends and collaborators going on 15 years. It was a treat to come together and create images for a brand we love. Thanks for the fun project @shopdoen @phoebe_dean https://www.instagram.com/p/CS9vCm_gNpj/?utm_medium=tumblr

More images from the latest issue of Gigantic Magazine. I channeled iconoclastic, deceased Polish opera singer, Ganna Walska (1887-1984) in her famed Santa Barbara gardens, Lotusland @lotuslandgarden. Her imagined words are below- see more at giganticmagazine.com. Many thanks @kris.feliciano @alexajohnson @giantartists 🌱 I always felt that I was born in the wrong era and was therefore never entirely understood. I defied convention and was an enemy of the average. Looking back I would say that I was on a lifelong quest of sorts. In my younger, more destructive, years I craved new experiences and an opera career. My six marriages were part of this quest through my first phases of life. Afterall, if we don’t advance, we retrograde and I had no time for that! My many husbands funded my lavish lifestyle and exquisite taste in jewelry, which I eventually sold off for exotic plant species to create my ultimate love, Lotusland. It was here, in the second half of my life, that I began my search for spiritual enlightenment. I painted with plants, creating a surrealist landscape of 37 acres. Some considered my gardening style eccentric, bold and extravagant, but more is certainly better! I avoided the conventions of traditional garden design and planted a hundred of the same rare species in one area. Then I covered my garden in jewels, abalone shells, crystals, lava rocks and created twenty distinct gardens to showcase my varied botanical collection. I named my garden Lotusland because it was my place of spiritual renewal. I identified with the lotus flower— a tightly closed bud growing through the murky waters to emerge as a beautiful bloom, reborn with purity and enlightenment. I was transformed and my consciousness was awakened in the Santa Barbara air. (at Ganna Walska Lotusland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CS2ZcCZFXTl/?utm_medium=tumblr

For the latest issue of Gigantic Magazine I “interviewed” the iconoclastic, deceased Polish opera singer, Ganna Walska (1887-1984) in her famed Santa Barbara gardens, Lotusland @lotuslandgarden Text below- see more at giganticmagazine.com Many thanks @kris.feliciano @alexajohnson @giantartists 🌱I always felt that I was born in the wrong era and was therefore never entirely understood. I defied convention and was an enemy of the average. Looking back I would say that I was on a lifelong quest of sorts. In my younger, more destructive, years I craved new experiences and an opera career. My six marriages were part of this quest through my first phases of life. Afterall, if we don’t advance, we retrograde and I had no time for that! My many husbands funded my lavish lifestyle and exquisite taste in jewelry, which I eventually sold off for exotic plant species to create my ultimate love, Lotusland. It was here, in the second half of my life, that I began my search for spiritual enlightenment. I painted with plants, creating a surrealist landscape of 37 acres. Some considered my gardening style eccentric, bold and extravagant, but more is certainly better! I avoided the conventions of traditional garden design and planted a hundred of the same rare species in one area. Then I covered my garden in jewels, abalone shells, crystals, lava rocks and created twenty distinct gardens to showcase my varied botanical collection. I named my garden Lotusland because it was my place of spiritual renewal. I identified with the lotus flower— a tightly closed bud growing through the murky waters to emerge as a beautiful bloom, reborn with purity and enlightenment. I was transformed and my consciousness was awakened in the Santa Barbara air. (at Ganna Walska Lotusland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSzXOLvAY5K/?utm_medium=tumblr

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