Piet Oudolf — At Work
To enter a garden by Piet Oudolf is to step into a dreamlike meadow: perennial plants, colour that shifts with every season, and textures that invite you to walk slowly. Before existing in the earth, each of those gardens existed on paper.
This book, prepared in close collaboration with the Dutch landscape designer, brings together the largest collection of his drawings published to date. These are original sketches and plans — many of them previously unpublished — that reveal how he works, where he finds his inspiration, and how an idea is transformed into a garden. Some unfold across fold-out pages and inserted plates that explain his key designs.
Alongside the drawings are the gardens of his entire career, spread across the world: the celebrated ones, the lesser-known, and new work too. They range from the High Line in New York to the Vitra campus in Germany (newly planted), passing through the Lurie Garden in Chicago, Belle Isle in Detroit, the Singer Museum, the Venice Biennale, Noma, Hauser & Wirth in Somerset, and — just off Mallorca — Hauser & Wirth in Menorca.
The book looks at his work through the lens of both horticulture and art, placing it in context with specially commissioned essays by Cassian Schmidt, Noel Kingsbury, Rosie Atkins, Jonny Bruce, and James Corner, plus a conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist and artist Tino Sehgal. A book for anyone who has ever walked through his meadows and wants to know how they are drawn.
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