Handing over can also be painful. While the Jardin Essentiel is still cared for by a group of active volunteers, who keep it open to the public, the pavilion of the Parckdesign edition of 2016 has a very different afterlife. . The playfully elegant design of @piovenefabi with its slender frame, soft canopy and moon-like lamps was replicated not only on the site of the former festival but in seven parks around brussels altogether. Where the distillation laboratory - who’s interior was so smartly elaborated by @thedecorators - once stood, branded sun umbrellas exemplify how the commercial use of the pavilion extends well beyond its originally humble and social design and swallows it whole. More! More! . Handing over can also be difficult. But this is life - you take the bad with the good. The garden lives in all of its essence. The pavilion lives like a zombie, a dead reminder of what it could have been. . Images 1 and 3 stolen from @thedecorators to make a sad point. . Jardin Essentiel was curated by @judithwielander and myself in 2016. If you wanna see a pdf of the book summarising the festival DM me.