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And on the tapis vert, a huge red-and-black cube is tucked behind the hedges, inviting visitors inside its curving, PVC-clad interior, which has the feel of a space-age habitat.

For a project at a London townhouse, yews clipped into massive rectangles are lined up colonnade-style, framing an impeccable tapis vert that is reached by ascending a broad flight of limestone steps.

Louis XIV of France included large squares of tapis vert, or green carpet, in his Versailles gardens.

And the Petit Trianon was in itself an improvement upon, or rather a protest against, the sumptuous splendour of the Orangerie, the basins of Latona and of Neptune, and the superb tapis vert, with its bordering groves of clipt trees and shrubs.

Nor did he put down pesetas upon the tapis vert.