January 6, 2012

Designer Robert Cannon, whose Terraform gardens we featured a while back, has designed some cool terraformed furniture made using a metal mesh armature covered with layers of stucco cement. The resulting furniture is strong, comfortable and weatherproof.

Cannon designed and … Read More...
Category: Containers and Pots, Experiencing, Outdoor Furniture
Tags: designer outdoor furniture. urban garden furniture, ferro-cement furniture, garden furniture, planted furniture
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We’re back with more sustainable indoor-outdoor furniture from the Plateau line of furniture from Brooklyn-based Desu Design and Material Process Systems.

Inspired in part by military aircraft, the interplay of angled lines and beveled edges creates, according to the designers, … Read More...
Category: Finding, Great Finds, Outdoor Furniture
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January 3, 2012

Kirv is a line of ergonomically designed tubular steel outdoor low-maintenance furniture intended to be left outside all year. Handmade in the UK, the colorful collection is built with 304-grade stainless steel with a bit of added chromium and nickel … Read More...
Category: Finding, Outdoor Furniture
Tags: ergonomic
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We’re talking opulent, glamourous, ultimate sophistication here and not for everyone’s space or pocketbook. However when I spotted this one, it reminded me of staring for a while at a pair of fabulous, way beyond my budget not-s0-practical shoes, wondering … Read More...
Category: Finding, Great Finds, Outdoor Furniture
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January 1, 2012

The scored, cross-axial lines of the Quadrant table from Brooklyn, NY company, Material Process Systems, can be used to orient the axis of your garden. At the same time, the center basin can be filled with plants, stones, or … Read More...
Category: Containers and Pots, Finding, Great Finds, Green & Sustainable, Outdoor Furniture
Tags: outdoor furniture, urban outdoor furniture
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December 31, 2011

picNYC table is a grass-topped table that, according to its designer “brings the rural picnic into the urban residence.”

Haiko Cornelissen, a Dutch architect with offices in Amsterdam and New York, cultivated the idea to bring one step … Read More...
Category: Finding, Green & Sustainable, Outdoor Furniture, Urban Agriculture
Tags: grass, grass table, sustainable, sustainable furniture, urban farming, urban furniture
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December 30, 2011

Justin Beaumont’s TreeRing Stools: beetle pine, mirrored Plexiglas, cool fluorescent lights.
Fee-Fi-Faux-Fun…it’s winter and cold here on the east coast so, you got it, I’m thinking about how to bring nature inside. Indoor plants will certainly do the … Read More...
Category: Finding
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At the intersection of architecture and art, architects Cheung and Vogl have designed a concept for a two-story concrete combination parking lot, street art museum, and public green space.

Shinjuku Gardens, in Tokyo, would feature layered soft-clad grass walls to … Read More...
Category: Experiencing, Vertical Gardens
Tags: architecture, green spaces, Green Walls, Japan, landscape architecture, urbanism
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December 29, 2011

We love multi-functional designs that do double duty! From Australian designer Kristian Aus, the colorful Splash stool’s design is inspired by a raindrop touching earth.

Made from rotomolded polyethylene, it’s great for small spaces as it’s got a comfortable … Read More...
Category: Containers and Pots, Finding, Great Finds, Outdoor Furniture
Tags: double-duty furniture, garden storage, multi-functional
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