Woolly Pockets Introduces New Living Wall Planter

August 23, 2012

I spotted the the new Living Wall vertical planter from Woolly Pockets unveiled yesterday at The Independent Garden Center show–one the many new vertical systems on exhibit at the show and evidence of the steady increase in popularity of … Read More...

Garden and Outdoor Design Follies on Streets of Lyon

August 20, 2012


Furniture made of metal, dirt, and turf. Photo via Marine Peyre.

Who doesn’t enjoy a bit of folly, in the garden, on the street, or anywhere?


Photo via JP Charbonneau

The Festival des Jardins de Rues de Lyon (Garden Festival … Read More...

Fun Modular Indoor/Outdoor Furniture Preview From Maison et Objet

August 19, 2012


Photo via 
Deco Design.

In less than three weeks I’ll be back in Paris again visiting the international design show, Maison et Objet Indoor/Outdoor. I’ve got an adorable little (really little) apartment in Montmartre and will share pics with you Read More...

Urban Hydroponic Bus Delivers Fresh Food and Water

August 18, 2012

Food & Water 2030 is Argentine industrial designer Nicolás Chacana’s concept for the cultivation of hydroponic produce in a mobile farm, specifically, an urban vehicle that grows and delivers food and drinkable water. 

I would like to know how energy … Read More...

This Colorful Woven Outdoor Chaise Rocks

August 17, 2012

A balancing act on two narrow skids, the Fedro for German outdoor furniture company Dedon, is a colorful woven low rocker designed by Milanese fashion, textile, and accessories designer Lorenza Bozzoli, who named it after her son who’d balance himself … Read More...

Outdoor Kitchen Transforms Into Indoor Table

August 16, 2012

Small spaces call for multi-tasking furniture designs and here’s one that works both outdoors and indoors.  In the spring, set up the Field Kitchen outside, then when the weather gets chilly, just move this super simple outdoor kitchen inside and Read More...

Will Paris Go Bananas for This Urban Vertical Plantation?

August 10, 2012

Urbanana is a cool urban vertical banana plantation concept dreamed up by creative minds at The Agricultural Urbanism Lab, part of the Parisian firm SOA Architects, as a means of redefining and invigorating urban agriculture in cities like ParisRead More...

Horticouture: Where Garden, Food, and Fashion Merge

August 9, 2012

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Japanese artist, Takaya, fashions vegetables and fruits into edible headgear.

Fashion trends have always had an influence on other industries, including culinary, interior design, and even gardening. Growing food is inexorably linked to cooking and its presentation a reflection of … Read More...

Pocket Size Herb Seed Kit

August 3, 2012

Except for the dirt, this pocket-size herb kit from Brooklyn studio and shop, Plant, includes everything you need to grow a variety of herbs outdoors or indoors in any container, even a coffee cup. You don’t need a garden Read More...

Three Cool Inventions For a Greener World

August 2, 2012

This summer has been one of the warmest on record in the northern hemisphere. 97% of Greenland’s surface ice thawed in an historical four days. Maybe it’s time to take a look at the grass roots of the green world … Read More...

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