Stella & Rose's Books

Front cover

Contents

• Foreword by Ghislain d'Ursel
• Introduction
• Acknowledgements
• 1 VELBRUCK, D'ANSEMBOURG, D'URSEL
• An enlightened Prince
• Joseph-Romain and Fanny d'Ansembourg
• Alfred I Frederic and Gustave d'Ansembourg
• d'Ansembourg, de Bousies, d'Ursel
• Line of Succession at Hex
• 2 THE ESTATE
• A hunting-seat for the Prince-Bishop
• Gentleman's Quarters
• The Ferraris map
• Star Wood
• Still a magnificent setting
• The structure of the estate
• The Cadastre
• 3 THE MANOR HOUSE
• Velbruck's country house in words and pictures
• Baron de Wal
• Philippe de Corswarem
• The hunting lodge
• the service wing
• The contributions of Joseph-Romain and Fanny d'Ansembourg
• Hex and Amstenrade
• Alfred I d'Ansembourg and the winds of change
• Architect Chretien Goevaert
• Gustave d'Ansembourg's reorientation of the manor
• Back to the 18th Century
• Understanding and interpreting the vestiges of the past
• 4 THE ORNAMENTAL GARDEN
• Velbruck's entrance
• The New English garden
• The terraces and front garden
• The parterre gardens in 1784 and 1828
• Jules Janlet
• The changing face of Hex in the 19th Century
• The new French gardens
• The Manege, Donkey paddock and balustrade
• Jacques Wirtz
• The Small Rose garden and the Chinese garden
• The Prince's garden
• Notable individuals
• The little terracotta statues
• The service courtyard
• 5 THE UTILITY GARDENS
• The Kitchen garden
• A nomination for the kitchen garden
• Velbruck's kitchen garden
• The kitchen garden plans
• The King's gardener
• The fruit listed on the kitchen garden plans
• The Catalogue of fruit and dwarf trees
• The wells
• The orangery and vegetable cellars
• Radelet, architect
• Changing times bring a different emphasis
• The Bee garden
• Velbruck, Venus and Yellow
• The Inscription stone
• Apple trees to be grafted in 1790 for Hex
• The Orchard at the Hollows
• 6 THE LOST ENGLISH GARDEN
• Velbruck's English Garden
• French and English
• The Way to Zavelbert
• for the wicker canape
• for Spitz's grave
• The Hermitage (or Philosopher's hut?)
• for the hermitage hut
• Statues, an ice cellar, and a ruin
• Back around the lake
• Joseph-Romain d'Ansembourg's contribution
• The design for the English garden
• For Cupid's stone
• Thomas Blaikie
• Was this plan ever executed
• A Design for an arbour
• The mirror image
• Arbour or leafy passage
• Rocks and grottos
• A 'tall rock with a cavern'
• The Matrimony Column
• The inscription
• the Obelisk garden
• Exchange
• the flower meadows by the pyramid
• The layout along chestnut avenue, also known as the Gated Road
• A green border and leafy passageway
• Masonic connotations?
• An early example
• Interpreting the sketches and plans
• Baron de Poederie
• The plant list of 1791
• The'bosquet toujours verd' (Paul van de Bremt)
• The 'motte panachee'
• 'Die Capzeit'
• The flowerbed close to the statue of Flora
• 7 THE PARK
• A Landscaped park for the renovated manor house
• Louis Fuchs
• The laying out of the park
• Parks designed by Fuchs
• The lake, purple beech avenue and a bridge
• From poplar to plane tree avenue
• The park today
• The Trees
• Afterword by Xavier Duquenne
• Notes
• Appendices and Indexes