Yet Piet Oudolf does not have a large office, myriads of staff or a smart social media strategy. The world’s most famous landscape designer (he designed the gardens of Battery Park and the High Line in New York, the garden of the Serpentine Gallery in London and the Lurie Garden at Millennium Park in Chicago), he is the inventor of an approach to gardening that is now copied practically everywhere. When he is drawing, nothing matters except the plants and him. And one need only watch this extraordinary documentary to realize how intimate, thoughtful and almost spiritual is every gesture that this Dutch giant, 78 years old and with a shock of white hair above his face, lavishes on his plants. The Gardens of Piet Oudolf, presented in Italy at the Milano Design Film Festival 2017. The portrait of him at work is by Thomas Piper, who shot Five Seasons. Watching Piet Oudolf designing his gardens has an ancestral feeling about it: the sound of felt-tip pens tracing circles, lines and blocks of color on thick paper the pauses, the details almost engraved with a rapidograph.
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