Gardens Illustrated Magazine

PAOLO PEJRONE

Hailed, often, as Italy’s greatest landscape architect and garden designer, Paolo Pejrone somehow remains just behind the curtain on the world stage of archi-gardener stars. Pejrone (pronounced pay-RO-neh) might not be a household name outside his own country, but he has created hundreds of gardens across the world, from France to Greece, and England to Saudi Arabia, around villas and castles, hotels and universities, banks, factories, and in piazzas and parks - there’s a good chance you have been in one of his gardens, and not even realised it.

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