Château de Bléneau, Sketch Plan of House and Grounds RP/1/6/73/8

An undated ink on tracing paper plan of the château and grounds at Bléneau.

Page’s plans for this red-brick country house in a village in central France, where he worked in the early 1950s, are a striking example of his ability to apply his pre-war experience as a landscape architect of larger estates to gardens on a smaller scale. He used steps, areas of formal beds and a new lawn to connect the 17th century house, moat and gatehouse.