Speaking from home – an old farmhouse on an acre of land outside the village of Hummelo, in the eastern Netherlands, where he has lived with his wife Anja since 1982 – Oudolf shares his thoughts on how to transform a miniature plot, work for Vitra’s HQ (completed since our interview), and our future reliance on finding pleasure closer to home – and ultimately, in our gardens.

Believing in plants as therapy, he completed the garden for Maggie’s Centre at the Royal Marsden Hospital in Sutton, which opened in 2019. He has designed gardens for Serpentine Galleries in London and Noma in Copenhagen, filled Hauser & Wirth’s Somerset garden with 57,000 plants, and created a private, perennial-packed rooftop in Manhattan. Rating the ‘architecture’ of a plant just as highly as its colourful bloom, his complex plantings are layered with a multitude of species – evoking a sense of spontaneity, although nothing is ever left to chance. His ability to create transportive private gardens extends into our bustling cities and his work can be enjoyed in many urban public spaces. Step into one of Piet Oudolf’s gardens and you will be transported into a dreamlike meadowscape. It does not store any personal data.On the occasion of the exhibition, we showcase the new photographs and revisit a Wallpaper* interview with Oudolf from May 2020, when much of the world was in lockdown. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Performance'. This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Necessary'. The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Functional'. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Analytics'.

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