For this new paper edition, we allowed ourselves to be guided by the BACSAC® veggie patch.. Drawing its square shape from a long monastic tradition, it is our favourite medium of expression: a plot of land - flexible, lightweight, portable - designed to cultivate the city in all its diversity, from the smallest of balconies to the largest urban agriculture projects! New paper rendez-vous, same formula! The journal unfolds into a giant gouache illustration by artist Léa Maupetit who we invited to dream up a vegetable patch in the heart of summer 🎨💛
A visit with illustrator Léa Maupetit
Her illustrations and our BACSACs were sharing the same space in the Artazart bookstorefor a long time, before she did us the honour of designing a giant illustration for our new Journal on the theme of vegetable gardens! A Parisian illustrator, Léa lives in the Belleville district, in a light-flooded flat overlooking treetops. Olive, her little dachshund, follows her around frantically! In her office - where pencils, markers, gouaches, proofs, colour palettes and ceramics are cleverly organised - we leaf through her new book on birds published by Gallimard. Colours burst forth and beautify the feathers. It was the perfect opportunity for photographer Élodie Villalon to come and capture her small piece of balcony, which we arranged together with a few BACSACs planted with fleabane, verbena, cosmos, helichrysum... and a fig tree that already looks like it's going to grow too big!
Discover our raised garden beds to grow your veggie patch in the city
