Pleasant Place #8

Editors-in-chief: Guus Kaandorp, Floor Kortman and Lou-Lou van Staaveren
Graphic design: Miquel Hervás Gómez and César Rogers 

‘A growing collection of publications about the art of gardening’

Following Daffodils last issue, this eighth edition of Pleasant Place examines the Garden Tools responsible for nurturing them. Featuring pops of metallic silver throughout, inside readers will discover a lengthy opening feature exploring the wealth of philosophical discourse surrounding horticulturalists’ appliances—from Aristotle’s assertion of the hand as the ‘instrument of instruments’ to Thoreau’s quiet weapons of Western colonisation, a visual portfolio of some of the unique objects for sale at Garden & Wood, the Wiltshire business specialising in restoring antique gardening tools, a step by step guide to tending to your tools, and more. 

As always, a curious and pleasant read indeed, and beautifully designed too. 

180 x 240 mm, 40 pages
Amsterdam, Netherlands (English-language)