Urban Gardens

When I met Ashira Israel exhibiting her Micro-Orb collection of concrete vessels at Wanted Design, I knew I’d spotted an artist on the cutting edge of Brooklyn made sustainable design.

Israel is the owner and lead designer/fabricator for the industrial … Read More...

If you’ve ever wanted your container gardening efforts to be less about labor, and more about love, here’s your chance.

Update 7/2022: This product is no longer in production, but here is a similar space-saving and collapsible fabric planter.

The … Read More...

UK maker and friend, Geoff Fisher, has just announced two new additions to his popular artisan-crafted Trook family of hand whittled hooks.

Fisher makes his new artisan-crafted Slingshot and Brush from the same local Beech and other woods he uses … Read More...

I’m not in Milan right now, but if I were I’d be heading to Design Supermarket. It’s an über cool holiday pop-up shop featuring the works of eleven emerging designers who exhibited their work at SaloneSatellite 2013, part of the … Read More...

Oh how j’adore the verdant marriage of design and horticulture in French designer Benjamin Pawlica’s Deltaflore plantable concrete green wall tiles. (You may have noticed that I’m a little obsessed with indoor-outdoor concrete everything these days.)

Just think about the … Read More...