Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. On his first free day after signing the armistice in November 1918, French prime minister Georges Clemenceau wanted ...

"Other painters paint a bridge, a house, a boat....I want to paint the air that surrounds the bridge, the house, the boat - the beauty of the light in which they exist." Claude Monet, 1895 Claude ...

The famous Japanese bridge in Claude Monet's garden at Giverny (Eure). JEAN-MARIE DEL MORAL When the painter Claude Monet (1840-1926) moved into Le Pressoir, a house in the village of Giverny in the ...

You never really understand water lilies until you see Claude Monet’s paintings of his lily pond. This turn-of-the-century French Impressionist nurtured a visual love affair with the water garden at ...

The painter was particularly taken with the garden surrounding it and thought it would be ideal for growing vegetables because he loved to cook (perhaps Prince Harry and Meghan Markle took a cue from ...

NOTE: this story and the accompanying photographs originally ran in the Free Press in October 2009. We are reprinting it in honor of the Monet Giverny painting that went on display at the Detroit ...

GIVERNY, France (Reuters Life!) - Although it is only an hour from Paris, Giverny, the village where Impressionist artist Claude Monet lived and worked, is a world away from the French capital. With ...

With summer just around the corner, Europe will soon be invaded by tourists, from the South of France to the Amalfi Coast. But there’s even more reason to head to a quieter place: Claude Monet‘s ...

HILLSBOROUGH-- A group seeking to preserve the Doris Duke Mansion has reached out to an international organization, The Claude Monet Foundation in Giverny, France, for help in preserving the iconic ...