Category: Art and Design

Plant-themed Project 365: Marjan van der Heijden took a photo a day (every day!) with her plants.

Plant calendars and botanical calendars to brighten up your year.

Bella creates exquisite botanical cottagecore jewellery, and she forages the botanicals she uses in her wearable art on hikes in the forests of Sweden. 

How to make a simple paper snowflake from book pages

Mesmerizing air plant holders which double as sun catchers

These wood plant stands from Wood and Soil are creativity and resilience in action. Made by hand in the United States by a small business.

European startup Horticure is now at the forefront of offering plant rentals for individuals. I reached out to Horticure founder, Deborah Choi, to ask her a few questions about this new houseplant rental service.

Houseplant accessories in the form of animals from Another Studio (London)

The flower pot stands on three hollow-legs that act as drainage. All planters come with a matching saucer that catches the excess water.

Hanging flower planters made of rope by Closed Mondays (in Brooklyn)

Looking for miniature houseplants, such as miniature cacti or succulents? Look at these beauties from OBerry

These houseplant planters are made of fully biodegradable recycled wood and corn-based plastic by French studio Minimum Design

This packaging decomposes to feed the herbs inside it. Designed by Edmundas Jankauskas

The Sip, is a self-watering Terrastone Planter Designed in Norway by Ann Kristin Einarsen

This tea packaging can be planted and it’s biodegradable.

The Voltasol flower pot designed by BAG Disseny studio can move according to the direction of the sun.

This flower planter made in the United States is a tabletop sculpture in itself.

Learn how to display airplants from Copenhagen-based Studio Hali-Ann Tooms

Scandinavian indoor Greenhouse made of solid ash timber with panes of toughened glass.

Monstera planter collection by Dutch designer Tim van de Weerd

Self-watering terracotta planters are practical to upkeep, and just make a lot of sense when it comes to letting plants take as much water as they need from the planter.

This biodegradable paper feeds tired bees.

Acorn Sprouting Vase from Iconic Swedish Brand Svenskt Tenn (and instructions on how to sprout acorns)

Livana is a self-irrigating container made out of a ceramic planter and a glass vase for water storage. The glass base can hold enough water for 12 to 16 days.

This cork shelf designed by Irena Ubler for Dedal is the perfect display for flower pots

The chamans are cute little houseplant accessories that will protect your plants, or at least put a smile on your face.

The Ujo container sold by Dedal, a design studio based in Portugal, is made out of a ceramic base, a lid and two middle modules. Choose your size or mix and match.

How does the Plantation collection work? You get a glass or an empty vessel of any kind, place the ceramics piece on top, add water and then add the plant that you’re rooting.

The wood eco-plant hanger is designed and sold by All Things We Like, a Dutch eco-design label that focuses on playful and unique sustainable products. The entire plant hanger collection is inspired by midcentury Scandinavian design, but skillfully crafted with the help of modern techniques such as lasercutting.

This plant hanger is made in France out of sustainably harvested wood.

The Masumoss combines elements of traditional Japanese culture in an innovative way: the masu – a wood box that was used to measure rice, the kokedama technique of keeping root structures watered and healthy, and the bonsai art form of plant pruning.

The air plant hangers that Cristina from Fuxigold makes out of brass have an air of elegance, simplicity and sophistication. Geometric yet fluid, sculptural yet free-flowing.

The Calabash plant hanger is 3D-printed using a material that’s a combination of sawdust and potato starch.

What do you do when you have a serious crush on houseplants, but your living space doesn’t grow to accommodate this infatuation? The Sky Planter from Boskke is the perfect solution to the conundrum of balancing a love of houseplants with city living in cramped quarters.

The “plantlight” is a completely self-sufficient lamp-terrarium combo made out of mouth-blown glass by German artisans. Because the design is hermetically sealed, there is no evaporation, so there’s no need to water the plant inside.

You can plant the Sprout pencil to an unusable length, you can plant it in a flower pot or in the garden, and you’ll soon have non-GMO flowers, herbs or vegetables

Inspired by the artistic decay of moss-covered ruins, Kosuke Sugimoto, also known as Shoetree on Instagram, is using vintage Nike running shoes as a growing medium for plants.

The living wall of succulents and air plants on this 3D-printed Cabin of Curiosities. The facade of the cabin is a honeycomb-like pattern of planter tiles made out of cement, chardonnay grape skin pomace, sawdust and coffee grounds.

Dutch Startup Ruik is turning Christmas tree into a zero-waste perfume that is plant-based and sustainable.

Long live the workplace of the future! And by that I mean the co-working space in which brilliantly creative minds come together to address some pretty important social issues. And since we’re talking about the business of shifting paradigms here, let’s come out and say it – our (co-)workplace need more nature. More connection to…