London-based artist Zadok Ben David has created a unique garden full of 12,000 painted stainless steel cut plants that are inspired by Victorian botanical illustrations in textbooks. Each of these plants is delicately cut, with dark black on one side while bright colors on the other. As a mirror is built rightly behind these plants, they thus allow the viewers to see different plant structures simultaneously.
With the Christmas Day coming nearer, what’s now popular on the internet isn’t this year’s Christmas tree however, but next year’s Eiffel Tower Tree instead. From June, 2012, about 6,00,000 plants will cover the Eiffel Tower, costing an astonishing £65 million. If the plan goes smoothly, quite soon we’ll see the world’s tallest tree in Paris, which is also expected to absorb more greenhouse gases at that time.
“Life within Objects” is a design that provides us a new way to interact with animals and plants. Put forward by Spanish-based designer Martín Azúa, the chair integrates a plant pot and an animal shelter with a seating device. Made of recyclable polyethylene with the rotomolding technique, the chair is ideal for both indoors and outdoors use, therefore allowing you to live a harmony life with your turtle, rabbit and your plants.
Origami is charming. You see, any common paper can find its values when transformed into a origami sculpture. Almost all the sculptures here are carefully folded from a single uncut square sheet of paper, visually represent animals, plants and fictional characters. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Very interesting design— we can offer the plants with sufficient carbon dioxide as we breath, ensure them enough exposure to sunlight as we walk outside, and probably supply some water as we drink. Aha, just for kidding… But such Plant Necklace can make us value plants and other species more, actually. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Hey lovely green plants, how I wish you could know what I’m saying, because these ‘Potences’ by Gregory Marion would be the best houses you can ever found. They supply a powerful support for you to climb on while never ruining the aesthetic feeling; they offer some clips too, in order to prevent the vines falling onto the ground. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Plant Robot, designed by Japan-based Akira Nakayasu, gets its name not only from the same shape as real plants, but also from the fact that it can make the leaves wave too. It has 169 mechanical branches and each of them is controlled by a separate engine. As a result, the leaves will wave automatically when you sweep your hands across them. [Read the rest of this entry...]
There’re large varieties of flowers growing in nature but only the white elegant calla lily blooms inside your bathroom. Designed by architect Oriano Favaretto, the new bathroom suite not only shows the graceful lines of the flower but features a drop shaped faucet, and all those have successfully kept us in good touch with the beautiful nature. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Nothing would be better than seeing some green plants in the desert, which may bring back vitality and power to us. And we hope you’ll still feel good to see a desert inside your home, which is however built in an apple or pear shaped terrariums. Combining two things that are irrelevant to each other, the designer of the Air Plant Terrariums has led us to another way to view the desert and to decorate our homes. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Entitled as “The Plant”, these bar stools designed by Svilen Gamolov each has an elegant shape, just as the real plants do. They’re made up of fiberglass with fabric upholster, and acryl, each measuring 86 cm in height, 50 cm in width and 50 cm in depth. But will you feel that you’re sitting on a tree when you’re seated on such Plant shaped stools? Do tell me your feelings when you see them in a bar. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Just see how greatly the high technology has changed the world, coz even your plants have to rely on the PC for life. Integrated with several sensors, a processor and unique software, the ‘Click & Grow’ is an innovative planter that takes the computers as its energy source. Simply connect the device to your PC, put some seeds into the pot, fill it with water, and upload the proper growth program, then you can have the growing system to take care of your plants. But that doesn’t mean the plants no longer need your attention, because you still have to water them when the notification lights are on. The system is expected to hit the market this year, at a price of €17. [Read the rest of this entry...]
In my opinion, there’s no pot on earth more eco-friendly or nutritious than average soil, oh wait, it is rightly where the plants are originally belongs. And that’s why I really intrigued by Strata Flower Pot. It is no different with normal flower pots except that it still supports the flower even when the flower is planted in the soil. That means, you can smash the Strata Flower Pot and bury it into the soil to supply the plants with needed elements. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Absorbing sunshine at the daytime, and then release light at night, this lamp is not just shaped in vegetable, but also functional the same as them. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Plant something at the side of your book. At night, you could also light the tiny LEDs to get a lamp. [Read the rest of this entry...]
