05. Le Festival des cannes

Founded in Paris in 2010, AC&T Paysages & Territoires is a landscape firm that designs and accompanies landscape projects of high conceptual quality, ranging from contemporary creations to historical restorations, for private commissions (estates, Relais & Châteaux hotels) and public commissions of international scope. The firm combines technical skills, aesthetic sensibility and environmental rigour to provide landscapes where emotion, usage and natural forces coexist sustainably. Its areas of focus include contemporary urban projects and architecture-landscape collaborations, testifying to its ability to work on all scales.

Thomas Secondé is a French landscape architect who graduated from the National Higher School of Landscape of Versailles (ENSP). Fascinated by the relationship between nature, form and territory, he has developed an approach to landscape that combines artistic sensitivity, understanding of natural dynamics and the technical demands of landscape design. After a variety of professional experiences in agencies and design offices, he decided to turn his vision of the profession into reality by launching his own company. In 2010, along with Anne-Cécile Freyburger, he co-founded the Paris-based firm AC&T Paysages & Territoires, devoted to design of contemporary landscapes, restoration of historic parks and gardens, and urban and landscape projects on all scales. Under his direction, the agency has distinguished itself by its integrative approach to landscape, combining contemporary creation, ecological sensitivity and attention to human uses and the memory of places. Thomas upholds a vision of landscape as a living, evolving process rather than a mere backdrop: he sees it as a space to be experienced, inhabited and brought to life.

Anne-Cécile Freyburger is associate landscape designer and co-founder of AC&T Paysages & Territoires. Her professional career combines landscaping with other aspects of wellbeing and the relationship with nature. Trained as a landscape designer, she has been contributing to the development of sensitive, committed projects, rooted in their sites’ natural and cultural contexts, since the firm was founded in 2010. Working alongside Thomas Secondé, she has taken part in a wide range of projects, from urban landscapes to historic gardens by way of prestigious private commissions. Alongside her work as a landscape designer, Anne-Cécile trained in sophrology, a mind-body technique she has been practicing since 2020. This dual expertise enriches her perception of landscape by integrating sensitive dimensions of human experience, emotion and reconnection with living things, which also nourishes the firm's approach in its search for landscapes that are inhabited, experienced and meaningful.