He makes running comments all the while.Īt 78-years old, Piet has clearly skipped out on retirement to redouble his focus on design work. As we gather around his Apple display, Piet intently takes us through the spreads, filled with his sketches, drawings, and evocative photography of his most recent projects, captured over this past decade. The book is so new, it exists only in digital form. Picture credit: courtesy and © Piet Oudolf Then after a walk between showers into the fabled front garden with all the grasses radiant, he asks if I’d like to see the new book. There we are, eating our herring at the very wooden table where Piet has sketch by sketch, plan by plan and landscape by landscape, done much to artfully rewild our perception of gardens in the modern public sphere.Įver the gracious host, Piet offers us more tea and cake. Piet’s collection of mugs filled with markers and coloured pencils is parked over to the side. The maestro himself sits in his usual chair, making us buttered rolls with fresh herring and onions picked up that morning in the nearby town of Zutphen.Īnja pops in to say hello and then vanishes off to curl up in the farmhouse with her weekend newspaper. My wife Troy and I are guests for a casual lunch at Hummelo seated around the work table in the middle of Piet’s home studio. Imagine this: A bright Saturday afternoon in the Netherlands last September interrupted by sheets of rain. My first glimpse of Piet Oudolf At Work on Phaidon Press could hardly have happened at a more auspicious time and place.
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