WPLN News Archive; Antiques And Garden Show Follies (Rebecca) 2 12 99; News Archive 2/8/99-2/25/99

farley is certainly a word which can be used in conjunction with the marie antoinette was folly to respond when told the people of france had no bread with let them eat cake and it cost her her life but the law is folly associated with this eighteenth century queen has nothing to do with politics but everything to do with pleasure it's a tiny pavilion which marie antoinette commissioned for her garden a structure which was never actually build until this week as the centerpiece for the antiques and garden show of nashville plans for the nice can't call the folly were discovered by chance by architects artists and authors are bombs and andrews aka they found a design in a private collection in germany and included it in their book pleasure pavilions and follows when planners of the antiques and garden show contacted them for permission to build a folly they said yes and they were even more pleased when they saw my first thought was the cream would have

approved i think it's just the perfect re creation offer howl foley should look like and the colors material i think this is very much but food addiction so i was taught follies have their origins in medieval structures especially grottos which were tucked away in a walled gardens usually those of religious retreat however by the eighteenth century they had many more foes than creations were the other term folly andrews a guy explains brenda whitacre tours you find great french gardens of a predictable steps which our gardening groups carve them out of the spaces in football follies pavilions gardens fountains things to news the walker and the guard say they control of news and ally is that really the purpose of a folly to amuse wanted to like one side is absolutely through a set that i would say amuse delightful to service an eye catcher to give hugo one you walk around the park with a sudden you would catch a glimpse of the structure like this make you curious and he would perhaps already have arranged

rendezvous midnight rendezvous with the naacp the creme de the lady waiting so i think they have many different functions and connotations of charm and light is definitely a test yet these playthings of the rich and famous served a serious purpose according to say guess they became laboratories in which architects could experiment introduce advance ideas which would not normally be accepted head of the commission say fine follies from architecture viewpoint think are important they do indeed serves a good purpose for art it's intended to date was that of the exploration of the world because you couldn't travel you couldn't go to china again to bring china to versailles and if you couldn't go to turkey would bring turkish tends to the park for so it was again team used to delight adults that a certain educational purpose so it was a bit of the year it is actually dissonant the small folly built from the plan's commissioned by marie antoinette is quite lovely and has the classic mix of architectural styles which gills follies their exotic appearance and their

appeal it's bright orange three tiered roof looks like a chinese pavilion it's flower bedecked green column support a freeze which separates the roof from the heavily france wags and tucked into unleash is an orange love seat for two which matches the roof climbing roses have been painted on what would have been the garden wall and why was marie antoinette so enamored of follies that she would commission more than she could actually bail well they were the height of fashion for one thing but burr dom stinks there's more to it than that another thing to truly considers how young for example that was when the blissful us perceived she was a young girl and she became queen when she was nineteen and she had left her home in vienna when she was thirteen fourteen of course as a young person you wanted to get away she was surrounded by the court the etiquette hundreds thousands of people this was a little refuge were few

moments ago moments of happiness and solitude the construction of marie antoinette's mali is only one of the many exhibits at this year's antiques and garden show which is at the national convention center it's open from ten until late today from ten until seven tomorrow and from eleven until five on sunday proceeds go to fund the exchange club of nashville charities and tickets are available at the door for national public radio i'm rebecca bain