Les Jardins d’Yves Saint Laurent et Pierre Bergé

Landscape architect Madison Cox and journalist Mitchell Owens talk about the garden legacies of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé, from Normandy to Marrakech and points beyond.

About the Guests

Madison Cox is an American landscaper, creator of gardens in the United States, Europe and North Africa, successively responsible for the Majorelle Garden in Marrakech, director of the Saint Laurent Museums in Paris and Marrakech, and president of the Pierre Foundation Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent since the death of his husband Pierre Bergé in September 2017. He gained international renown and the media nicknamed him the “gardener of the billionaires” while noting that he did not seek advertising

Photo Credit: Christine Harris

The American Editor of The World of Interiors and a Contributing Editor of AD, Mitchell Owens has written for The New York Times, Travel + Leisure, and other international publications. His books include Fabulous! The Dazzling Interiors of Tom Britt (Rizzoli 2017), *In House (*Rizzoli, 2009), John Ike’s “9 Houses / 9 Stories” (Vendome Press, 2023), Alex Papachristidis’s “The Elegant Life” (Rizzoli, 2022), and Thomas Kligerman’s “Shingle and Stone” (The Monacelli Press, 2022).

Grand Patrons:

Myriam Bransfield
Jean P. Elting
Susan Hillman
Elizabeth Hoffman
Libby Horn
R. Stanley Johnson*
Betsy Holleb Krauss
Virginia Boyles Lawless*
Suzanne C. McCormick
Janis W. Notz
Betsey N. Pinkert
D. Elizabeth Price
Cheryl Sandner
Laraine Spector
Liz Stiffel
Mary K. Swift
Leslie Zentner

Patrons:

Elisabeth Adams
Mary H. Anderson
Lisa W. Bailey
Michelle Bibergal
Frances Blair
Virginia Bobins
Betsy Karp
Mary Ellen Connellan
Kathleen Cook
Lidia Devonshire
Annie Ergas
Judith Scholl Lee
Jeanne and Fred Lewin
Leslie Logsdon
John G. W. McCord
Donna McKinney
Carol Montag
Jody Pelletiere
Lisa Klimley Malkin
Carole Sandner
Diana M. Senior
Pauline Kurtides Sheehan
Beth Smetana
Elizabeth Thiele
Blair Thrush Lele
Margaret Abbott Trboyevic
H. Randolph and
Nancy S. Williams
Karen Zupko