![]() He is a designer contemplating the end of a career. “It evolves constantly, so it’s a constant process of making little changes so that it can evolve in the right way,” he explains. Oudolf is 78 and still working, but he’s wrangling with “winding down.” The first meeting he had with the landscape architects behind the High Line was in 2004, and he’s still involved. ![]() His is a language of swaying, fluffy grasses and tactile outcrops of woodland foliage a shift from gaudy, disposable bedding plants to something altogether more natural. Through plants, he conjures strange and beautiful dreamscapes. Perhaps you are one of the eight million people who visit Manhattan’s elevated park, the High Line, every year, or maybe you visited his riotous meadow inside the 2011 Serpentine Pavilion in London or the Oudolf Garten at the Vitra campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany, which opened to the public last year. There’s a good chance you’ve admired an Oudolf garden without realizing it. Piet Oudolf is a Dutch designer who cut through the prim fussiness of traditional Western gardens with an unapologetic determination to make our green spaces seem more alive. ![]() ![]() Over the past four decades, one man has steadily changed the way our parks and gardens feel. ![]()
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