# Parterre (パルテール（刺繍花壇）)

> The embroidered bed: box hedging stitching arabesques into the ground, designed to be read from the floors above — the ground itself turned into ornament, gardening as graphic design.

- IndexStyle No.417 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/parterre
- Kind: Layout · Family: Garden Styles · Era: 17th century–
- Mood: Luxury, Calm, Play
- Color cues: #e9e6dd / #67635d / #171615 (cues taken from reference works, not a fixed palette)

## Defining characteristics

- Box arabesques
- Gravel and turf as ground colors
- Made for the view from above
- Symmetrical development

## Best used for

- Comparing primary sources and canonical works
- Extracting principles that transfer to other media

## Research method

This entry records a historical style; derive the treatment from its sources rather than a fixed recipe:

- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process

## What to avoid

Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.

## Application checklist

Before calling a piece an application of this style, check it against the defining characteristics:

- [ ] Box arabesques
- [ ] Gravel and turf as ground colors
- [ ] Made for the view from above
- [ ] Symmetrical development
- [ ] At least one reference work below has been studied directly
- [ ] The caution above ("What to avoid") has been addressed

## Related styles

- **French Formal Garden (フランス式整形庭園)** — The garden Le Nôtre perfected at Versailles: axis, symmetry and perspective, nature disciplined into geometry by shears and water — power made visible as spatial order. → https://indexstyle.org/styles/french-formal-garden
- **Topiary (トピアリー)** — Plant sculpture: evergreens clipped into geometry and beasts, with decades of growth built into the design — the slowest of all sculptural techniques. → https://indexstyle.org/styles/topiary

## Further study

- broderie patterns
- the Mollet dynasty
- Victorian carpet bedding

## Reference works

- ヴォー＝ル＝ヴィコントのパルテール（CC0） — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vaux%20le%20Vicomte%20jardins.jpg
- 刺繍花壇の俯瞰 — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vaux%20le%20vicomte%201.jpg

## Source of record

- Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte — https://vaux-le-vicomte.com/

## Machine surfaces

- JSON: https://indexstyle.org/api/styles/parterre
- Image-generation prompt (legally clean): https://indexstyle.org/styles/parterre/prompt.txt
- MCP: https://indexstyle.org/mcp (tools: search_styles, get_style, compose_styles; prompts: image-prompt, apply-style)

## 日本語

ツゲの刈込みで地面に唐草を「刺繍」する平面花壇。上階から見下ろされることを前提に設計された、地面そのものをオーナメント化するグラフィックデザイン。

特徴: ツゲの唐草文／砂利と芝の地色／上からの鑑賞前提／左右対称の展開
注意: 表面的な記号へ還元せず、時代・地域・技術・制作主体の文脈を確認する。