Pleasant Place Magazine #6 – Topiary
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- Category: Magazine
- Topic: Nature & Plants
- Publisher: Pleasant Place
- Country: Netherlands
- Language: English
- Release: 2024
- Cover: Softcover
- Binding: Stapling
- Size: 18 x 24 cm
- Pages: 40
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
