Laura Spector’s art falls into the category of Modern Master — I don’t put too many things or people in the category, but she certainly qualifies. Her pieces are beautiful celebrations of woody vines and branches that create some of the most beautiful garden furniture and arbors I have ever seen. Make sure to click through to her website to see other pieces of her work that are for the interior of the home too.
Thanks Louise for sending me the link!
For a public place, I think I prefer this kind of more earthy and interesting furniture over the typical utilitarian choices. Makes a space feel more like a place I might want to stop and stay for a while. Alternatively, I might not feel like I should actually sit on it….it’s so pretty…. What do you think?
Called ‘Pile Isle’, I found this via GardenBeet. It is designed by Elena Goray and Christoph Tönges. It has no glue or nails and is simply held together with stainless steel belts.
Hanging garden seats are a perfect way to add a vertical element to a garden — particularly if you can actually suspend one from a tree or other garden structure (rather than simply buying the base and plopping it into a design). In my own backyard, I have an oak tree with a perfect branch — in a couple years. I am researching on how to tell if your tree branch will be able to take the weight of a swing. I am sure that different tree varieties will hold better than others and certainly the diameter of the branch must be taken into account. Seems like their ought to be a table somewhere to help a person to know if it would work before damaging anything. Know of anything like this?
I have rounded up a variety of hanging garden seats. They are top to bottom in price (some cheap and some very expensive) and where available easily I have included the pricing. I hope you find this useful.
And don’t forget — one of my all time favorite hanging garden seats….the pink fermob balancelle chair that I featured last spring.
From top left, found at Minor Details, Now at Home, Amazon. $89.99, The Garden Gift Box, Archiexpo, Acrylic Bubble from LA Furniture Store. $1199, Raw Studio, , Steve Myburgh metal garden work, Target. $59.99, Anthropologie, Buy $777.59, Instructables DIY Pallet hanging chair.,Patricia Urquiloa
Today’s daily garden was designed by Brian Higley of Cold Spring NY. I am enjoying the casual-ness of the garden and even the 70’s woven lawn chairs seem just right in this eclectic space. Proof that charm and interest in a space doesn’t have to cost a whole lot. Do you like it? What is interesting to you?
Remember last week I was asking you if you know where I could get those chairs (remember, on Emmas Roof Terrace in Buenos Aires)….well — while looking for something else entirely, I happened across a pattern to MAKE them — and they say it is for BEGINNER woodworkers (that’s me). YahHoo!!
Image by BevKnits
The pattern is available from Vintage Games in Truro, Nova Scotia. It says I only need 2×2’s – no screws or nails or glue, and it costs a measly $4.00 USD. Now I am shopping for good wood.
Double Yah Hoo!!
While I was in Canada we explored the beautiful Ile D’Orleans which is the idyllic island in the St Lawrence where over 30% of the produce that is consumed in the province is grown. As we wandered the pretty green roads, one thing jumped out at me that unfortunately still sticks with me. One of the homes (only one — and I know this because we literally drove every road on the island) had a chain link fence separating the front garden from the neighbors. It was utterly jarring and it underlines my opinion that Chain-link fence — unless dramatically and artfully altered – has no place in residential design. A better use perhaps — this interesting project — perhaps slightly uncomfortable — but probably remedied with cushions, I kinda like this re-use project for ugly old chainlink. What do you think?
found at designsquish.
