| Description |
399 pages : illustrations (color) ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Over the course of his thirty-year career, Piet Oudolf has constructed dozens of private, corporate, and public gardens throughout the world, including the celebrated High Line in NYC, Lurie Garden at Millennium Park in Chicago, and temporary installations for the Venice Biennale and the Serpentine Gallery pavillion. This book presents an overview of Oudolf's career, providing detailed insight into how his beloved naturalistic aesthetic, based heavily on the use of perennial plants. |
| Contents |
Brief biography -- JacP. Thijjse and Heemparks -- Planting design -- The garden: taking the first steps -- Mien Ruys -- Dutch gardening goes rural -- Revival in the north -- Rob Leopold: philosopher-garnener -- Combing the nurseries -- Karl Foerster -- Ernst Pagels -- Meeting a kindred spirit -- Henk Gerritsen -- Open days: a new way of meeting -- Anja's favorites -- Collecting -- International contacts -- Promoting a vision -- The garden takes shape -- Attracting the public's attention -- Clipping -- Perennial perspectives -- Sweden: the turning point -- Grasses -- Breeding new plants -- Public commissions -- Piet as photographer -- The plant pallette -- Wilder and Wilder -- Accolades in England -- Blending and intermingling -- Chicago's Lurie Garden: the first North AMerican project -- Scatter plants -- Working with North American plants -- Maintenance from a distance -- Restrictions suggest creative solutions -- Twenty years of progress -- Spreading ideas -- The battery -- Unique attributes -- The Trentham Estate: an English labyrinth -- Block painting -- Changes in the garden at Hummelo -- Further international commissions -- Collecting II -- Evolving ideas -- Borders -- The high line -- Planting in latyers -- Projects in Germany -- Graphic styling -- Making connections with architecture and art -- Matrix planting -- New perspectives on design and plant use -- Acclaim -- Hummelo: beyond design. |
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Oudolf, Piet.
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Gardeners -- Netherlands.
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Gardens -- Netherlands -- Hummelo.
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Natural gardens -- Pictorial works.
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Planting design.
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Gardens -- Design.
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| Genre |
Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Kingsbury, Noël, author.
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| Added Title |
Journey through a plantsman's life |
| ISBN |
9781580934183 |
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1580934188 |
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