Urban Gardens

Jungle Design, Brooklyn’s garden

Wherever I go, I am on the lookout for cool garden and home decor shops. I’d like to share some new favorites with you:

Jungle Design
61 Kent Avenue, Brooklyn, New York
This wonderful Brooklyn shop, is the retail post…

New from French company, La Corbeille: a combination standing lamp and plant container. The fabric lampshade rests on the top rim of the pot until you pull it up to turn it on–providing light for the plant and illuminating your…

Designed by Paola Navone for Italian manufacturer EMU, this luminescent pouf, part of the Ivy line, is constructed of ironed metal sheet metal and fitted with a photovoltaic device which enables it to collect and store solar energy. At night it…

Photo courtesy Harries & Héder

When the city required Austin developers Catellus to mask an unsightly expanse of store-back loading docks in order for a large retail lot to receive a green light, they hired Massachusetts-based public art firm Harries & Héder to…

Imagine if monitoring your energy consumption were managed by one of your household’s lamps. With the flick of a switch, Beverly Ng’s solar-powered Spark Lamp, changes color depending on the amount of power your home has used during the month.

During the day, you flip…