Providing visitors with a tranquil haven for rest and reflection, Peter Zumthor's Pavilion centres around a hortus conclusus, a hidden inner garden, conceived by award-winning Dutch designer Piet Oudolf. The most comprehensive publication on the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011, this catalogue features stunning artwork and photography of Zumthor's Pavilion as well as a fully illustrated index of the plant varieties included in Piet Oudolf's garden design. "Enclosed gardens fascinate me. A forerunner of this fascination is my love of the fenced vegetable gardens on farms in the Alps. I love the image of these small rectangles cut out of vast alpine meadows, the fence keeping the animals out. There is something else that strikes me in this image of a garden fenced off within the larger landscape around it: something small has found sanctuary within something big." Peter Zumthor, 2011
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