Modfire Introduces Tabletop Fireplace

June 18, 2012

Parlaying off the success of their award-winning Urban Campfire outdoor fireplace, Modfire has introduced Tablefire, an exact 1/2 scale replica for the tabletop. Tablefire burns an eco-friendly, clean burning gel fuel that’s safe for indoor or outdoor use–so take

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P. Allen Smith Promised Me a Rose Garden

June 13, 2012


Three Double Knock Out® Roses surrounded by their own foliage. Photo: Robin Horton, Urban Gardens.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
Antoine Saint-Exupéry

I always thought roses were the … Read More...

Twigged Out Designs for Garden and Tabletop

June 8, 2012


Even in a contemporary garden, these rustic twig plant markers would be a nice accent.

I love mixing it up–rustic with sleek, shiny with matte, new with old. I’m going to include some twig elements in my summer decor, both … Read More...

From Outer Space to Small Space: Rotary Indoor Hydroponic Garden on Shelf

June 7, 2012

If you can grow food in a spacecraft, you can do so in the confines of a small urban space. Developed by NASA and readapted by Italian studio, Design Libero, the Green Wheel is a rotary hydroponic system concept … Read More...

Chair Farm: Plant Yourself a Chair

June 6, 2012

For Milan Design Week 2012 at the Instant Stories exhibition by DMY in Ventura Lambrate, Berlin and Singapore-based architect Werner Aisslinger unveiled his Chair Farm–a living “plantation chair” produced in an agricultural lab.


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Urban Gardens Curates “Very Short List”


Opera, an über-luxurious mobile tent, was part of my curated piece for Very Short List. Photo: YSIN.

I was honored to be today’s curator for one of my favorite sites, Very Short List. It’s a cool daily e-mail that Read More...

Outdoor-Indoor Designs for Birds, Plants, and People

June 5, 2012

Funny how some people find their passions. After tripping over an overgrown creeper’s tendril in 2008 and fracturing his hip, Johannesburg, South Africa-based designer, Joe Paine, was inspired to design products for plants.


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Sit, Grow, Entertain With Eco Wave Bench

June 4, 2012

The slatted seating surface of François de Vecchis’s Eco Wave Bench for GrupoHewi supports the bench’s modular Hi-Mac tapered triangular pots.

 

Containers function interchangeably as planters, a cooler to hold ice and drinks, or to hold various other items … Read More...

Garden Arbor, Trellis, and Vertical Planting System

June 3, 2012

I’m smitten by Parisian designer Thomas Grenier’s à Partager–a vertical planting system and arbor that integrates both potted plants and vines. Seed, sow, and shade yourself with this great multifunctional design for any size outdoor space or garden.

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