Description
“[Jacques Wirtz’s] painterly coping with of sunshine and shadow, like that of seventeenth-century Flemish painters, offers him ‘an excellent energy to rouse house . . . ‘” ―Pilar Viladas, The New York Times
The 3rd installment within the acclaimed, gorgeously designed Wirtz Gardens guides gifts 32 gardens designed by way of the Belgian panorama-layout virtuosos Peter Wirtz, Martin Wirtz and Jacques Wirtz―a mix of personal, public and company initiatives in Belgium, Switzerland, Japan, the USA, France and England. For the primary time, personal initiatives in the USA and Switzerland are proven, along extra atypical initiatives such because the cloister gardens of the Hauterive Abbey in Switzerland; Wirtz’s 2012 level set for a Dior model display; and a secluded Eastern lawn with a view of Mount Fuji. Each and every lawn is observed, because it used to be prior to, by way of its plan and a short lived textual content.
Jacques Wirtz based his observe in Schoten, Belgium, in 1950. The corporate has on the grounds that turn out to be a thriving circle of relatives industry, with Wirtz’s sons, Martin and Peter, becoming a member of the company. Gardens in Belgium and all its neighboring international locations, plus Italy, Switzerland and the USA, are underway; earlier paintings has been undertaken in Japan, Spain and Portugal.
Wirtz World’s personal initiatives vary from small courtyards to huge estates, company headquarters, industry parks and housing trends; public initiatives include parks, boulevards, town squares, college campuses, museums and streetscapes.
