Sneeboer tool set Piet Oudolf

Anyone who has ever been to the Dutch village of Hummelo, who knows the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein or the Berne Park in Bottrop will certainly be familiar with the name Piet Oudolf. Born in Haarlem, he is considered one of the most famous garden designers in Europe. Gardens designed by Oudolf stand for a style close to nature. He preferred to use grasses as a design element and is therefore still regarded today as the inventor of a certain type of garden. Just as the name Karl Förster is associated with perennial gardening, Piet Oudolf's name stands for the grass and prairie garden. His favorite tools, or at least the gardening tools he says he uses most, are the hand weeder and the planting trowel. The hand weeder has a narrow, precise blade whose sharpened edges both break up and loosen the soil. The generously dimensioned blade of the planting trowel is also supplied with sharpened edges. We offer both parts here in a tool set that Piet Oudolf has developed in collaboration with our trusted toolsmith Sneeboer in North Holland. The functional parts are hand-forged from stainless steel in the tried-and-tested manner, while the handles are made to measure from the "resonating" ash wood that we prefer for tool handles. The handles are specially engraved.

For over 100 years, the family of West Frisian blacksmith Jaap Sneeboer has been supplying their Dutch fellow citizens, who are known to be constantly busy with farming, dyke construction and horticulture, with the tools they need. Sneeboer uses two different stainless steels for his traditional Frisian horticultural tools in stainless steel: a higher-alloyed, tougher one for the springs and spouts of the handle holder and a lower-alloyed, more forgeable one for the actual functional parts. The individual structural elements are welded together and then ground and polished. All operations are carried out by hand.