We at Mingzhu Nerval are dedicated to conceiving vertical living greenery walls and artful, luxury gardens.

Mingzhu —鳴築— in Chinese means ‘birds singing through architecture/the city’— this is our dream, and our daily work is to make it true.

As Chinese is a beautiful language with layered meanings, Mingzhu is also the name, though with different characters, of co-founder Bai Mingzhu —白明竹.

We blend our fashion design, fine arts, and engineering backgrounds, along with our Chinese and French sensibilities to do things that are wild, romantic, and sometimes very graphic.

Experiencing the works of Friedensreich Hundertwasser was the catalyst for creating our company. The Austrian artist and architect showed us it’s possible to link nature, cities and art: conceiving nature as part of buildings, or buildings as part of nature. Another important foundation of our aesthetics is graffiti art: painting walls! Fashion design is a third source of inspiration, as the way we build our gardens is just like constructing an Haute Couture garment.

Mingzhu Nerval was founded in 2010 by Mingzhu Bai, a fashion designer from China, and Antoine Nerval, an agricultural engineer from France—both previously educated in fine arts.

We have since expanded globally and are joined by a multi-talented team with a range of expertise from botanical horticulture, to landscape architecture to structural engineering. Our team strives to create the most beautiful vertical gardens in the world, with ever-expanding diversity and innovation.

Of course we have big dreams of a greener and more beautiful world, yet we feel that our striving can be expressed in one single verse:

萬事不關心，

明朝散發弄扁舟

To us, this means ‘the answer is in beauty, and nature is beauty’.

This gives us the energy to express our values of beauty, grandeur and kindness through our work.