Just days into his first visit to Detroit this past spring, world-renowned Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf asked his hosts to return to Belle Isle, the site where he’d been asked to work his magic, to look around one more time.
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Belle Isle will become even more beautiful in the coming years, as a new garden is in the works by an internationally-acclaimed Dutch designer. Piet Oudolf—whose projects include No. 5 Culture Chanel in Paris; The High Line in New York; Lurie Garden, Millennium Park in Chicago; Serpentine Gallery in London, and the Venice Biennale—will be bringing his vision to our own island park.
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However cold outside, gardening is a hot topic in Detroit and likely to get even hotter.
As the Garden Club of Michigan and Detroit Institute of Arts’ Friends of Detroit Film Theatre are co-hosting a special screening of “Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf,” at 7 p.m. Jan. 4. The film will be followed by a conversation with Oudolf about the garden he’s planning to create on Belle Isle.
“We’re very excited,” said Duncan Campbell, a spokesperson for the club and husband to its past president Maura Campbell. “This is going to raise awareness for the project and it’s going to give people a chance to understand and see Oudolf’s work.”
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Film on acclaimed garden designer Piet Oudolf at the DIA
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The main draw for garden visitors is Oudolf Field, a slope of 1.5 acres enclosed on three sides by traditional hedging. It’s a former field that is now a garden, conceived by international star Piet Oudolf. With the Dutch designer’s trademark perennials that have beauty at every stage, we wonder how they are doing in deepest winter?
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More exciting news is in the near future Belle Isle will feature a spectacular display of modern landscaping created by the internationally renowned garden designer Piet Oudolf.
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Internationally renowned designer Piet Oudolf has agreed to design a garden for Belle Isle and is open to additional commissions in Detroit.
The island garden will be planted on a 1.5-acre, grassy site near the Nancy Brown Peace Memorial Carillon and the Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory, a site chosen by Oudolf himself during a visit to Detroit earlier this year.
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The Garden Club of Michigan and the Detroit Institute of Arts auxiliary Friends of Detroit Film Theatre (FDFT) would like Detroiters to know more about Oudolf. They will co-host a program Jan. 4 at 7:00 p.m. that includes the documentary “Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf” and a conversation with Oudolf and filmmaker Thomas Piper.Oudolf and Piper will discuss the film and the Belle Isle garden site with audience members at the screening.
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The Garden Club of Michigan and Friends of Detroit Film Theatre cohost a special screening of Five Seasons, a new documentary about the internationally renowned Dutch master garden designer and plantsman Piet Oudolf.
Piet Oudolf`s projects include No. 5 Culture Chanel, Paris, France; The High Line, New York NY; Lurie Garden, Millennium Park, Chicago IL; Serpentine Gallery, London, England, and the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.
At the invitation of the Garden Club of Michigan, Oudolf has committed to design a garden in Detroit and proposed a site on Belle Isle. Piet Oudolf and filmmaker Thomas Piper will be present at the screening to discuss the Belle Isle proposal with audience members.
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DETROIT (AP) — Open houses are planned this month on a proposed garden for Detroit’s Belle Isle by Dutch designer Piet Oudolf.
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources and the Garden Club of Michigan are hosting public meetings Tuesday and Nov. 28.
Oudolf’s work is seen at Lurie Garden in Chicago and the Highline in New York City, among many other gardens worldwide.
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