"Cabinet de treillage" - elevation of a Baroque trellis pavilion

Detail from the garden plan of Schloss Hof, pen and watercolour drawing by Anton Zinner, c.1730

Trellises are among the most fascinating elements of Baroque artistic horticulture. They form a link between architecture and vegetation, technology and illusion - and they provide shade.

The word trellises is related to the French treillage which designates latticework or grating.