SKTCHBK PRJCT: 2014-05-25

GABRIELE GALIMBERTI

GABRIELE GALIMBERTI
Photography
www.gabrielegalimberti.com

I am new to the work of G.G but I really love this style of documentation. Two of his projects that particularly stand out to me are 'Toy Stories' and 'Delicatessen with love'.

TOY STORIES.
“The richest children were more possessive. At the beginning, they wouldn’t want me to touch their toys, and I would need more time before they would let me play with them,” says the Italian, who would often join in with a child’s games before arranging the toys and taking the photograph. “In poor countries, it was much easier. Even if they only had two or three toys, they didn’t really care. In Africa, the kids would mostly play with their friends outside.” Ben Machell, The Time Magazine

DELICATESSEN WITH LOVE.
"Gabriele travelled around the world and, next to thousands of other adventures, turned into a curious and hungry grandson for the grannies of all the countries he visited. Appealing to their natural cooking care and their inevitable pride in their best recipe, common factors to all grandmothers in the world, Gabriele persuaded them to do their best in the kitchen.... He has come back with a cookery book of detailed recipes that mix love, photography and travel amongst the many exotic ingredients. Indeed, each for each grandmother he has produced a portrait of the cook, and easy to follow recipe and an image of the extraordinary and at times mouthwatering final dish". Arianna Rinaldo

NOLA

Nola
nola.se

Nola is a Swedish company specialising in contemporary outdoor furniture that is made using innovative construction methods, materials and ideas. I think some of these pieces would fit perfectly in this garden as they have a sense of fun and play but are also really interesting pieces of design in their own right.

Here are a few of my favourites:

Pylon Bench.

Two in One Chair.

Picnic Tables.

This could make a really good play zone for the children as well as being a seat or table..

Sunday Bench.

ULF NORJFELL

*****This post is from the archives of this blog, but he is a really big influence for me in this project so I thought is was a good idea to re-post this here*****

Ulf Nordfjell
Landscape Architect
Sweden
http://www.nordfjellcollection.se/

Swedish garden designer Ulf Nordfjell is one of my biggest design heroes. When describing his garden design style, he states:

"...Swedish nature is always present in my design and I like to use natural materials, but the structure of my parks and gardens is always modern, with very strong design elements".

For me the combination of clean, modern hard landscaping in materials like wood and stone combined with looser more naturalistic planting creates gardens that are beautiful, strong balanced and functional.

I will reference his work a lot when working on this current project. The garden design styles I have chosen (woodland/japanese/minimalist) will need careful consideration when getting the right balance of materials and landscaping. Nordfjell seems to always be conscious of not letting one element dominate the others and of leaving space where it is needed.

GRANITE

Sweden is a volcanic country, so i thought that the stone used in the garden whether it is in the paving or stone as a feature, should be igneous rock. I think granite could be a good option as it is available in many forms and colours and can be finished in numerous ways.

Granite Paving.