![]() Courtesy and © Piet OudolfĮqually as fascinating as the photographs of the end result of his projects are the drawings Oudolf uses to plan them. Oudolf's hand-drawn plans for the Vitra campus in Germany. “Oudolf has thus succeeded in emancipating planting design as an art form in its own right, bringing it out of its niche and on to the big stage,” writes fellow gardener Cassian Smith. ![]() ![]() A photographic anthology of his greatest outdoor work as well as a poetic ode to his creativity (thanks to several essays by his contemporaries), it offers a complete look at Oudolf and his legacy. “That happened when I met plants.”Ī new book Piet Oudolf: At Work, published tomorrow by Phaidon, proves how inarguable his impact is. “I always had a strong feeling that I could do something different,” Oudolf previously said. (Just to name a few.) Currently, most consider him the most famous person in his field. ![]() But, hundreds of millions of people have: The Dutch landscape designer is the mastermind behind New York City’s High Line and Battery Park, Chicago’s Lurie Garden in Millennium Park, London’s Queen Elizabeth Park, the entry to Toronto’s Botanical Garden, and the Vitra Campus in Southwest Germany. It is probably an exaggeration to say everyone has walked through a Piet Oudolf garden. ![]()
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