Pleasant Place is a growing collection of publications about the art of gardening. Pleasant Place informs and inspires by offering both practical and in-depth information as well as unexpected approaches to everyday garden tasks and garden design.
Pleasant Place #6
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ISSUE 6: TOPIARY
The art of trimming and pruning trees and shrubs into fanciful shapes. What’s up with our unrelenting desire to clip and sculpt the natural world into submission?
Including:
- Magnum Opus Topiarium – Botanical philosopher Norbert Peeters takes us through the history of topiary and the changing views of nature.
- Le Bal Des Ifs – a comic by artist Fiona Lutjenhuis.
- Topiary in Art History – From holy, to phallic, to terrifying, topiary has been depicted in many ways.
- It may have been a formal garden, once – We talked to the wonderful Chris Crowder, head gardener at Levens Hall, the oldest topiary gardens in the world.
- Niwaki – Alec Schellinx observes the Japanese tradition of niwaki
- What’s Eating Hedges – Writer Eliot Haworth ponders the fight against suburban monoculture. With illustrations by Jordan Herregraven.
- The Shape of Shrubs to Come – A glimpse of the future of topiary by artist Rustan Söderling.
- Centrefold miniatures by Andrei Pacea
The cover is by Lou-Lou van Staaveren & Guus Kaandorp and the inside cover is by Jan Dirk van der Burg
Graphic design is by fanfare
Concept and editing by Guus Kaandorp, Floor Kortman and Lou-Lou van Staaveren
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