Patrick Blanc

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Patrick Blanc born 1954, residing in Créteil, France is a French botanist who made his name with the plant wall, is an unusual mix of scientist and artist. His vertical wall of low light foliage plants thrive on a soil-less, durable frame of metal, PVC and non-biodegradable felt.

He studied at Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris and travelled to Malaysia and Thailand for the first time in 1972 to observe how plants managed to grow on rocks or in forest underbrush. He has been a researcher with the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris since 1982. A fixture in the French media, he has also published a handful of books for a general audience about his work.

Mr. Blanc lives in Creteil with his partner Pascal Héni, a singer who is well known in India by the stage name Pascal of Bollywood.

[edit] Works

Quai Branly Museum

Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, in Paris 1997.
Pershing Hall hotel, courtyard, in Paris in 2001.
Marithé & François Girbaud boutique in Manhattan.
Siam Paragon shopping center in Bangkok.
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan.
Quai Branly Museum in Paris, 2006.
BVH, outside wall of a Paris department store.
Galeries Lafayette[1], Berlin Friedrichstraße, 2008.

[edit] Books

Folies végétales, published by Editions du Chêne, January 2007, ISBN-10 2842777360, ISBN-13 978-2842777364.
Le bonheur d'être plante, published by Maren Sell Editeurs, March 2005, ISBN-10 2350040186, ISBN-13 978-2350040189.