The Villa Rothschild in Cannes

Le Jardin de la Sixième Extinction

The Jardin de la Sixième Extinction represents a journey through the history of the relationship between the Earth and humans, and questions the place of our sensitivity to the environment of tomorrow's world.

Millions of years ago, primitive life forms appeared on Earth. Thanks to a process of evolution, living organisms, subjected to their environment, have since then never ceased to transform themselves and have generated a variety of species cohabiting on the planet. Man took his place in this ensemble some 200,000 years ago. Since then, he has been learning from the Earth. Fear, fascination, observation, experimentation, accidents... He has known how to use nature to gradually try to tame it. The planet has been progressively shaken by the human activity always more intensive. Man is now faced with a dilemma: to continue the unbridled consumption of resources drawn from the Mother Earth that gave him life or to reconnect with nature by returning to the original balance.

Design of the garden in collaboration with Jules Lefrère. Garden realized with the help of La Pépinière des Baisses, la carrière Distripierres, Mul - Les Carrières de la Siagne, Sylvie Wheeler, Pierre Lavaud, Jean-Philippe Joncourt, Johann Laskowski and Pablo Boudier.