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Stackable planters allow you to create a modular ecosystem within your home

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My greatest pleasure, and also my greatest regret, is coming across designs that make me go “Why didn’t I think of that?” Chris Ference’s Elevated Planter is one of them.

The Elevated Planters are a series of planters with toothed bases. Made from anodized aluminum, these planters can easily be stacked one above the other, simply by getting the teeth/grooves on the base of one planter to lock onto the upper rim of another planter. The metal construction ensures a secure, strong fit, and the modular nature of the Elevated Planters allow you to build yourself a vertical jungle, so you can expand your garden without requiring a large space for multiple planters. The metallic planters come in a variety of sizes and colors too, giving you the freedom to mix and match your set, based on the plants you have (or intend to buy/grow). The grooves on the base of the planter allow you to explore a variety of arrangements, and you can even stack them on the edge, so that the upper pots don’t end up obstructing the growth of plants in the lower pots. Each Elevated Planter even comes with a drainage hole at the base along with a rubber plug to block it off, just in case you keep planters indoors.

The Elevated Planters were developed as a personal concept while Chris was practicing model-making using cardboard and paper. The concept evolved further as he began sketching and exploring forms, concepts, layouts, and details. Chris is currently working with a sheet metal manufacturer to bring the Elevated Planters to life.

Designer: Chris Ference

Twitter’s anti-spam rules foiled Planters’ Super Bowl stunt

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Planters is learning that there is such a thing as being too thirsty for social media stardom. Twitter has suspended three accounts tied to Baby Nut, the resurrected Mr. Peanut mascot that made his debut during the Super Bowl, for violating policies...

This dish rack holds and waters your plants for you!

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There’s nothing we love more than everyday lifestyle items with a twist! And if we get to save some water along the way, and grow a few greens… well, Milan based DesignLibero’s ‘Fluidity’ allows us to do just that! Created by designer Ekaterina Shchetina, Fluidity serves a double function. A comely white dish rack by day, the multipurpose dish rack has an alter ego; it serves as a planter, or to be precise there are two built-in planters on its sides. Fluidity is designed in such a way that the run-off water from the freshly washed dishes trickles down to the roots of the plants, irrigating and nourishing them. The base, thanks to its fluid form, allows the water to be directed to the plant containers. Perforated at the bottom, the containers are filled with clay pellets and coconut fiber, to control the water environment of the plants and to keep the drainer base free from water residue.

Taking into account ‘smart’ designs and space-saving, DesignLibero has come up with a mini-masterpiece allowing us to grow fresh herbs, while our dishes water them! With the hectic and frantic lives, we live today and our busy schedules consuming all our time, Fluidity enables us to add some greenery to our little kitchen, helping us to cultivate a small garden with minimum effort!  Minimalistic and compact, Fluidity is a perfect fit for our bustling kitchens!

Designer: Ekaterina Shchetina for DesignLibero

Multifunctional Product Designs that combine your love of plants with the modern lifestyle!

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I love having plants at my home! Agreed, I have had some troubles and mishaps, and quite a few succulents have sacrificed themselves to my cause, but I can’t help trying to make my surroundings greener. What I would love to own though, is all of these designs that beautifully marry everyday products with plants. This unique list includes everything from lamps that create a self-sustaining environment, which means the plants are safe from my busy hands to a coffee table, indoor farms and even a terrarium where the plants and fish live off each other’s ecosystem! However green your thumb is, there is surely a design that can match your gardening skills.

Mygdal Plant Light by Nui Studio is a revolutionary lighting solution not just because the luminaire is a completely self-sustaining ecosystem where the plants can grow undisturbed, but also because of its one-of-a-kind electrically conductive glass coating

The Oasis Multifunctional Table brings together a planter at the base of a table, which keeps green thanks to the integrated LED lights, and stays hydrated via the clever funnel found at the center of the table top. Excess water simply drips down to the collection tray and evaporates back into the air, as designed by Pei-Ju Wu

The Brot is a lamp and planter combined into one slick, terracotta package. The lamp provides nourishment to a tiny kitchen-garden that you can literally pick from and use in your meals by Benditas Studio

Spanning four floors, House Patrocinio is located in Lisbon, Portugal and it’s a house like no other, with its lush vertical garden exterior.  Underneath all of the green is a rectangular tower of a building but the facade, and the approximately 4,500 plants that cover it make it a standout by Rebelo Andrade

The Home Aquaponics Fish Tank creates a wonderful self-sustaining ecosystem where an aquarium and terrarium live off each other’s waste, beautifully displaying the relationship between flora and fauna by Daylight Design & Back to the Roots

Designed to blend in with your existing home atmosphere, Aeva is what happens when Scandinavian design values meet modern hydroponics by  Conner Tidd & Kevin Jakiela for Inertia

Etta is a wooden room divider composed of a base and of reconfigurable elements. The little bench acts as a seat and as a platform where it is possible to arrange at will the mobile elements: a little table/shelf, an upholstered backrest, and two grids, one vertical and the other horizontal, conceived to support different typologies of houseplants by Dossofiorito

Mirror Halo and Coffee Table Ovio, are designs that incorporate plants by Poland based Bujnie

Botanical Planter Screens by Helen Koutoris provides a sense of natural visual separation to indoor and outdoor spaces alike

The AU_34 plant Halo Lamp by Massimo Cappella Studio

Clairy is an award-winning planter/purifier hybrid that adds a touch of aesthetic beauty and greenery to your space. With a purifier integrated into the planter itself, Clairy pulls polluted air through its top, allowing to pass through and around the plant and soil, getting the plant to absorb microorganisms, gases, and dust particles by Vitesy

Plantable by JAILmake has the legs that double as supporting trestles while the pots fit snugly at the foot of each leg

Freshen up your plants and garden with these designs!

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With pollution rising at newly alarming rates, indoor plants have been scientifically proven to purify the air naturally while adding a spark of liveliness to your home. In fact, Nasa did a Clean Air Study with results that said in addition to absorbing carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen through photosynthesis, certain common indoor plants may also provide a natural way of removing toxic agents from the air around us. While you go about adding some greenery to your space, we have curated a list of planters for you to choose from. So get inspired, innovate and go green with your choice of planter designs!

The BouquetPOT packaging by Niangui Cai becomes a make-shift pot for your flowers.

The Oasis Multifunctional Table & Planter by Pei-Ju Wu 

The Brot by Benditas Studio is a lamp and planter combined into one slick, terracotta package

Aeva Hydroponic Systems by Conner Tidd & Kevin Jakiela for Inertia 

Nebl by Studio Rem is a series of planters encapsulated in frosted glass for Gejst Design 

Robert Planters by Estudio Floga 

Helen Kontouris’ Botanical Planter Screens provide a sense natural visual separation to indoor and outdoor spaces alike.

GROWTH, an origami-based, shape-shifting planter by Studio Ayaskan

Concrescence Concrete Planters by Vako Darjania 

Muuch Rhombus Modular Flowerpot by Estudio Floga 

Tako Planters by Fasa Desk Accessories 

Triflora Hanging Planters by Umbra