![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Piet Oudolf is no different from his fellow country people - in temperament he comes across reticent and studious, (having met him and Anja once at the University of Pennsylvania's landscape architecture lecture program a few years ago), but warm and personable in good company. The way Noel Kingsbury and Piet Oudolf have chronicled the people and places makes for a more compelling story than the plants and gardens themselves as they had been in their previous books.īy nature, the Dutch are a pragmatic, stoic lot especially for people who faced the inevitable task of carving out a country below sea level. Despite being marketed as a biography, the book is more an examination of personal influences that shaped Piet Oudolf's career as a plantsman and plant designer. It reads easily at a relaxing pace without the overwrought drily tone typical of biographical genre. Weighing at 2.8 pounds, Oudolf Hummelo is hardly the light paperback one slips into the travel bag. The book's hardcover format is rather unconventional for its subject because gardening books are often lavish coffee table tableau instead what we have in our hands is the size of a hardcover fiction. Four years after the pictorial reference Landscapes in Landscapes (2011), the Monacelli Press recently issued Oudolf Hummelo written in part to commemorate Piet Oudolf's seventieth birthday and place the garden designer himself through a biographical and cultural prism. ![]()
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