Urban Gardens

City chicks listen up: you too can roost in style. Described by its designers, Matthew Hayward and Nadia Turan, as “a stylish & sculptural piece of garden furniture with breakfast thrown in,” the nogg is a modern chicken coop designed … Read More...

It’s a challenge making the most of a small urban balcony to allow room for planting as well as dining. German designer Christian Lessing’s multi-functional balcony wall system offers the opportunity to mix and match surfaces that become a variety … Read More...

The design of the Pasha chair lies at the intersection of the 17th century and today. “The perfect synthesis of tradition and innovation” is how Pedrali, the chair’s manufacturers describes them.

Designed by by Claudio Dondoli and Marco Pocci, … Read More...

By hook or by Trook, I love these wood hooks hand carved by artist Geoffrey Fisher in England where he harvests most of the the wood from fallen trees near his Buckinghamshire Studio.

Trook supporting a lantern.

Fisher’s pieces are … Read More...

Get cookin’ with the Hot-Pot combination herb garden and barbecue grill that lets you grow your herbs on the top to season the food you cook on the concealed grill below.

Great BBQ for Small Terraces and Balconies
Pretty … Read More...

Tina, the urban hen

Guest post contributed by Miki Wright, Lexington, Kentucky urban chicken herder and urban gardener.

“Our girls” were delivered from McMurrays as a box of 27 day old peeping fluff-balls, and we fell in love. We fed … Read More...

Bus Roots is a living garden planted on the roofs of city buses. Similar to Spanish designer Marc Grañen’s Phytokinetic system of vehicle rooftop gardens, this conceptual project arose from New York City designer Marco Antonio Castro Cosio’s graduate … Read More...