Event

MADOO IN MANHATTAN

We are delighted to welcome Belgium-based landscape architect Peter Wirtz, CEO of Wirtz International, who will be speaking about the importance of horticultural knowledge in garden design. His day-to-day connection with plants and soil is a key source of inspiration and knowledge. According to Madison Cox's much lauded book The Gardener's Garden, "Wirtz's use of clipped hedges to define spaces and focus views recalls great landscape designers such as André LeNôtre. It has become widely recognized as his trademark and is made more contemporary by being combined with perfectly proportioned mown lawns, reflective pools, gravel paths and borders full of massed plantings. Wirtz Gardens are constant: they work as well in winter months as they do in summer."

Along with his brother, Martin, Peter Wirtz joined his father's firm in 1990. Since then the three have continued to create some of the most sublime private, public and corporate gardens throughout Europe, the United States, Israel and Japan.

A cocktail reception will follow in the third floor loggia.