Crash! Boom! Bang!
Not just the title of a Roxette Top 40 hit (hello, 90s’ child!) but the symphony of onomatopoeia performed by a few of my flower pots as they tumbled off a suspended shelf.
The culprit: me.
More specifically, my miscalculated decision to hang a shelf in an area with a lot of foot traffic. Now there’s no way to undo the mess. No way to make the dirt clean itself. No way to glue together the crassula ovata succulent that snapped.
So what I needed to do was either to tone down my clumsiness (ha, not a chance) or find a safer way to secure pots on suspended shelves. These shelves by Dedal seem like the perfect choice for the latter solution.
(If Dedal sounds familiar, that’s because we’ve also featured their versatile modular planters.)
The Snuro shelves – designed by Irena Ubler – were created with plant-lovers in mind, and the design will fit most Ikea-sized flower pots. During the design ideation phase, Irena Abler and the team at Dedal explored different types of materials and shapes – from wood board to clay and ropes. But in order to develop a more stable and safe product, they settled on a cork and wood sandwich board.
What you should know about cork is that it’s a quintessentially Portuguese material — half of the world’s cork production originates in this country. It’s also a very sustainable material to work with as the harvesting of cork doesn’t damage the tree. Cork oaks can live up to 200 years and they can be harvested once every nine years. So this material fits right in with Dedal’s mission to promote Portuguese artists and support local artisans while also advocating for a sustainable home decor industry.
Photos via Dedal
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