GIVERNY, France — “My greatest masterpiece,” Claude Monet once said, “is my garden.” Looking at his garden here, I could not argue that this profusion of flowers and ponds was less than a masterpiece, ...

"Other painters paint a bridge, a house, a boat....I want to paint the air that surrounds the bridge, the house, the boat - the beauty of the light in which they exist." Claude Monet, 1895 Claude ...

The famous Japanese bridge in Claude Monet's garden at Giverny (Eure). JEAN-MARIE DEL MORAL When the painter Claude Monet (1840-1926) moved into Le Pressoir, a house in the village of Giverny in the ...

NOTE: this story and the accompanying photographs originally ran in the Free Press in October 2009. We are reprinting it in honor of the Monet Giverny painting that went on display at the Detroit ...

The painter was particularly taken with the garden surrounding it and thought it would be ideal for growing vegetables because he loved to cook (perhaps Prince Harry and Meghan Markle took a cue from ...

Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. On his first free day after signing the armistice in November 1918, French prime minister Georges Clemenceau wanted ...

Home to the impressionist painter Claude Monet for half his life and the inspiration for his most famous works – those depicting colourful water-lilies and the Japanese bridge – the Monet Foundation, ...

Restoring a tarnished masterpiece is a tricky business. Art lovers are attached to what they know. So are gardeners and garden lovers. Over the past three years, a British gardener has begun to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rooksana Hossenally is a Paris-based writer covering luxury travel. View of the breakfast nook and one of the six rooms at at ...