Broken Column House
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The Broken Column House (the "colonne brisée", or ruined column) is an artificial ruin in the French landscape garden Désert de Retz.
It is a summer house in the form of the base of a shattered column from an imaginary gigantic temple.
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See also
- A cross section of the Broken Column House at the Désert de Retz as recorded in Les jardins anglo-chinois by Georges-Louis Le Rouge, 1785
- The Broken Column (La columna rota, 1944) Frida Kahlo
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