Garden Futures: Designing with Nature (ed. Viviane Stappmanns & Nina Steinmüller; Vitra Design Museum & Wüstenrot Foundation 2023) is a fantastic exhibition book that explores the history and future of gardens. Approaching gardens through architecture, design, and art, Garden Futures: Designing with Nature was a touring exhibition by Vitra Design Museum, the Wüstenrot Foundation, and the Nieuwe Instituut, and first on display at the Museum of Architecture and Design in Helsinki in 2023–24.
Garden Futures examines what gardens and their design reveal about our relationship to nature. In exploring the history of ideas behind the modern garden, this book takes a close look at the present, searches into the past,and builds bridges with the future. It includes stunning photographs of groundbreaking gardens by artist Derek Jarman and garden designer Piet Oudolf,while critical essays by well-known authors question the ideals of the conventional garden – from seemingly perfect, water-wasting lawns to ubiquitous plants and their colonial roots. Historical photo-essays consider the garden as a political space, and gardeners Gilles Clément and Jamaica Kincaid present the garden as a place of learning where abstract concepts like ecology, climate change, and food insecurity are translated into things you can smell, touch, and taste. With texts by Jamaica Kincaid, Gilles Clément, Liz Christy, and others; interviews with Julia Watson, Bas Smets, Céline Baumann and Ng Sek San
– Viviane Stappmanns and Nina Steinmüller (eds.), Garden Futures: Designing with Nature (Vitra Design Museum & Wüstenrot Foundation, 2023), book description from the publisher’s website
The text is in English. The book is profusely illustrated with photographs and other visual material.
Our copy in stock is in very good condition. The pages are clean, no markings. The binding is fine. The covers show only some minor traces of shelf wear and use.
