Inspired by the Jardin des Papillons ("Butterfly Garden"), a magical greenhouse in the Parc Floral in Paris's Bois de Vincennes, our NEW, recolored Fleurs et Papillons was originally designed by D. Porthault for bedding and terry in the early 1950s.
The Jardin des Papillons, with at least forty different specimens of butterflies, is hidden away in a natural habitat massed with foliage and flowers ~ and it is surrounded in the Parc by hundreds of varieties of iris, the national flower of France.
The Bois de Vincennes was originally used as a hunting ground for royalty in France. In the mid-1700s, King Louis XV opened the park to the public, commissioning the planting of hundreds of trees and flowers; and one hundred years later, Napoleon III directed Baron Haussmann to further transform the Bois into a leisure escape for Parisians.
In French culture, the butterfly is a symbol of transformation and the ephemeral beauty of nature, as well as of freedom and hope. And in both American and French culture, the sight of a butterfly signifies that your loved one is near.
Symbolic and shimmering with color and movement, butterflies and the flowers they live among remain enchanting motifs for the house of D. Porthault.
