![]() ![]() Growing up, he played soccer, but he says he didn’t “fit in” at school. ![]() “It was strange, not living with my parents, but I was happy,” he says. When his mother, a hairdresser, and his father, a driver, moved to the outskirts of town with his older sister, they left Luciano, age four, in the care of his grandmother, a seamstress who lived in the city center. Over a cup of oolong tea beneath the shade of a majestic oak tree in the garden’s vast central courtyard, Giubbilei traces his love of landscape back to his childhood. Val d’Orcia, in southern Tuscany, is the setting for a roughly four-acre garden commissioned by a pair of new-minted wine producers. “This landscape is in my bones,” says Giubbilei, who has the classical features and shy charm of a Ghirlandaio portrait. Then, three years ago, that elusive dream finally materialized. Nothing has seemed out of his reach except, ironically, being hired to design a garden in his own country, Italy. Fast-forward three decades and Giubbilei, now 46, is an acclaimed garden designer based in London with projects that have sprung up all over England, Europe, the U.S., and Morocco. He also baked bread at a local bakery, repaired the city’s rooftops, and, as soon as he got his driver’s permit, worked as a truck driver zooming all over Tuscany, his camera always at hand to record what caught his eye: the winding roads flanked by cypress trees, the lunar hills of the Crete Senesi, the wild vegetation along the autoroutes. Outside the fifteenth-century country house, a gravel path meanders through low spreading plants, creating a lush tapestry of silvers and greens.Īs a teenager, Luciano Giubbilei worked after school as a delivery boy for a florist in his native city of Siena, Italy. ![]()
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