Urban Gardens

Resembling a Chinese take-out container, the witty Grimm planter, from Italian company Bysteel, makes a good conversation starter for your garden or terrace.

Designed in 2010 by Georgia Brusemini, the matte white lacquered aluminum planter is available with either four … Read More...

Do double duty in the garden: Put this wheelbarrow to work with the heavy lifting, use as a garden seat, or both. As New Zealand designer Matt Moriarty notes, “Why redesign or reinvent when something that already exists does … Read More...

Covered by 5000 plants forming a map of the European continent,  ‘Europe in Bloom: a Living Façade” hovered, until late October, over one of the most prominent squares in Copenhagen. In an effort by the European Environment Agency (EEA) … Read More...

Photo by Robin Plaskoff Horton

One can always find a place to garden in the city. This sink garden is outside Brooklyn Kitchen, one my new favorite culinary adventure stops in the Williamsburg neighborhood. “We have turned a 7000 sf … Read More...

Short on space, urban dwellers who want to reduce their waste through vermicomposting now have a less bulky and even decorative option. Place Vertuo on your balcony or terrace to recycle household waste using colorful ceramic pots for “vermicompost.” Then … Read More...

Introduce a bit of whimsy and humor into your environment. These sculptural baby head vases or planters from Denver designer Michael McDowell are made from slip-cast stoneware covered in a glossy white glaze. The artist recommends planting them with small … Read More...

Hanging from adjustable cables, the Etcetera vertical garden system from French company, La Corbeille, forms a planted curtain where you can grow your own edibles or ornamentals while also creating privacy screening indoors or out. The modular use of … Read More...

Korean designers at Nothing Design Group have produced something more than just white bricks containing flower pots.

It’s a modular system that can be used to assemble planted borders, barriers, privacy walls and screens…

stacked they can become … Read More...

If you were wandering through Belgium’s Parc de Chaudfontaine, you might become awestruck by a giant clothespin “pinching” the grass landscape. Artist Uysal Mehmet Ali’s Pinching Earth plays with our perception of scale: the clothespin is 20 times greater than … Read More...

At last September’s Maison et Objet, Dutch design team Dutch Summer grabbed attention by introducing their Chesterfield pouf inspired by the box tree. The BUX, they contend, “feels like a throne.”

Handmade of a padded soft imitation leather suitable … Read More...