Sabine Scholl

208 pages

235 x 300 mm

app. 200 images 4c

Be inspired by new interdisciplinary insights into the world‘s famous gardens. A range of professionals share their views.

Find out how American artist Jeff Koons reacts to sculptures with a resemblance to his own in the grounds of a cemetery in Ecuador and what top French chef Joel Robuchon prizes about the vegetable garden in Chateau de Villandry.

Author Sabine Scholl accompanies artists, musicians, philosophers, chefs and craftspeople through the world’s famous gardens and talks to them about their ideas, associations and fantasies. Their unconventional approaches shed new light on these special places.

A theologian discovers pagan designs behind the Renaissance garden at Bomarzo, a young German artist from the New Leipzig School of Painting strolls through Claude Monet’s garden in Giverny, a psychoanalyst talks about the artistocratic symbols at Versailles and a literary expert muses over the links between novels and horticultural designs in the garden created by the English writer Vita Sackville-West. Around 200 attractive photos illustrate these encounters.