Parterre Promenade

Our Parterre Promenade mural features subtle geometric patterns created using 17th-century garden designs from rare books in the Colonial Williamsburg library. These intricate garden features were sculpted hedges in vast baroque gardens in France, where they were called parterres. In England, they were described as embroidered gardens. Keeping up such elaborate gardens demanded an extensive (and expensive) landscape crew. It’s easy to understand why British estate owners eagerly embraced a more naturalistic landscape when Lancelot Capability Brown championed that simpler style in the late 18th century. The inaugural WILLIAMSBURG Mural Collection X Paul Montgomery re-envisions the rich design archive of Colonial Williamsburg the world's largest living history museum, within a modern sensibility. Sales of WILLIAMSBURG products support Colonial Williamsburg's missions of education, preservation, and engaged citizenship – That the future may learn from the past.