Pleasant Place promotes the cross-pollination of art and gardening. Collaborations with both experts and artists make Pleasant Place both informative and practical as well as surprising and inspiring.Each issue is dedicated to a single garden related topic: a person, place, plant, phenomena, or technique. As you collect – either all issues or just your favourites – you built your own, personalised garden encyclopedia.
Let’s get to know this monumental Mediterranean thistle, a sweetheart that deserves a place in both gardens and kitchens alike!
Including: Artichokes: A Botanical Introduction – with botanical illustrations by Scheltens & Abbenes Chokes in Art History – an overview of artichokes in the art historyFuture Finials – Six new garden ornamentsArtichokes: Palatably Plated – A culinary history from around the worldNostrale from Niscemi – Cultivating artichokes on Sicily
A set of garden miniatures by Kazuma Eekman
The cover is by by Scheltens & Abbenes, the inside cover is by Stephanie Hardy, and graphic design is by fanfare
All packages are shipped with DHL from our store in Amsterdam, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
For small packages outside the EU, we use UPS Express Shipping and for big packages, we use PostNL (carries parcels over to local shipping companies).
44 pages, plus miniatures in centrefold, English
18 x 24 cm
