Living Lamp Provides Green Indoor Gardening Space. Rooftop and balcony gardening has seen a great resurgence as of late, but many apartment dwellers lack balconies, rooftop access, or garden space and are unable to indulge in these green trends. Apartment gardeners, take heed! The Green Indoors is a high-tech gardening solution that provides ample light and water to growing plants while making the most of available space by housing plants vertically. Up to 24 specialized plant pots can be connected to the stand to grow any number of vegetables, herbs, or flowers all year long. Still in its concept stage, the Green Indoors plant stand was designed by Ingela Viks + Liina-Kai Raivet from Estonia as part of the Designboom/BÜSSEL design competition.
The ‘Your Way to Coway’ competition asked designers to imagine the kitchen of tomorrow, and come up with concepts for appliances, multi-use spaces, and gadgets that might be included in future kitchens. We’ve seen other indoor growing lightpots, but they tend to take up precious counter space. A Green Bed That Turns Your In-Bed Movements into Energy. We’ve seen some pretty impressive green beds before, but this one takes the cake.
Designed by Arthur Xin, the Ecotypic Bed has overhead LED reading lights, speakers to play music to wake you up, an LED lit flower box that grows greenery up the posts of the bed and much more. The best part is that the bed features a built-in battery that turns all of your in-bed activities (get your mind out of the gutter!) Into energy. There are even straps and pulleys (chuckle) on the side of the bed that can be used to exercise and generate even more power. + Arthur Xin Via YankoDesign. Flora Grubb Panels Let You Design Your Own Vertical Garden. A vertical garden is one of the most eye-catching ways to decorate an empty wall, but how do you move beyond crawling ivy for a more colorful and luscious canvas?
After receiving hundreds of emails for DIY tips on how to re-create their ‘succulent walls,’ Flora Grubb has produced a modular paneling system simple enough for even the most botanically inept to manage a beautiful living mosaic. Each 20″x20″ panel contains slanted planting cells able to support an array of plants and soil. Typically panels are set flat for a few months to allow the roots to grow and develop into the individual cells, and then propped up onto a wall once they’re stable. A garden setup requires free drainage — they can be irrigated manually using a garden hose or can be fixed to accommodate a built-in irrigation line for automatic watering. With 45 open cells per panel, the combination of plants and flowers you can choose are endless. . + Flora Grubb. A Chair That Bring Plants and Insects Inside Free Willingly. This new set of chairs by Analog Media Lab is more than just a nouveau ant farm, or an atrium fused with antique seating.
Chair I: Rococo Armchair Retrofit and Chair II: Ghost Chair Retrofit are part of an experimental series created by a group of designers set on exploring the interface between human and insect life. By bringing nature into the home, particularly with domesticated insects (e.g. ants, termites, moths), individuals can examine the impact that human evolution has had on insects through time – insects which have consequently come to be considered only as unproductive and problematic pests that have a penchant for taking up house in our humble abodes. The chairs arrive in two flavors — as previously mentioned an antique infusion, and alternatively in a molded plastic form. Analog Media Lab is the collaborative effort of David L.
Via Pruned. Mushrooms Ate My Furniture: Biodegradable Bench in Bloom. Designer Shinwei Rhoda Yen is turning furniture inside out with her ‘mushrooms ate my furniture’ chair. A contemporary addition to any garden, the seat of natural wood provides an excellent respite to enjoy your surroundings or take a break from your green thumb, while its underside provides the perfect habitat to grow mushrooms. Left exposed to the elements, mushrooms will grow and live within the chair for years, feeding off of the nutrients of the wood. As with all things in nature, the mushroom furniture will eventually degrade, giving way to the life of its inhabitants. We’re always excited to see approaches to industrial design that inspire dialogue about product lifecycles. In the case of this mushroom bench, an inanimate object sustains life and automatically biodegrades as it reaches the end of its lifecycle. Via DesignBoom. LIVE LAMP is a Plant-Studded Sphere of Light. Fluorescent lights might not be your first choice for ambient outdoor lighting this summer, but the LIVE LAMP transforms that unenchanting frigid glow into a beautiful globe radiating with life.
Designed by Kara Bartlet for the Summer 2010 to(HOLD) line, this otherworldly piece is a glowing glass orb patterned with eighty living Fuschii V Gracillis Tillandsia air plants. Kept alive by an energy-efficient CFLgrow lamp that attaches within the orb, these epiphytic plants survive with no dirt – just UV, air, and a little bit moisture. With no green thumb required – except for a spritz of water once a week – you can keep those hands free from the rougher perils of gardening, saving them for more enterprising summer activities. + to(HOLD) Fun and Clever Dirt Table Turns the Plant World Upside Down. We love living furniture here at Inhabitat, so we were thrilled to see this fern-tastic dirt table that turns the world of indoor gardening upside-down.
Designed by Ori Mishkal, the clever side tables offer a great way to save some space by combining a sturdy table with an inverted planter. Since the plants are set below the base of the table, the table top is a free for photos, lamps, cups and more. But best part is, you can give that shade-loving fern the additional darkness in needs to be happy and flourish! Via re-nest. Living Furnishings - 'MOSSdesigners' Use Moss in Interior Design. Imagine a piece of living nature in your urban bathroom; no, not in a jar, but in the ceramic tile.
How about a 3D wall decoration or bookshelf or coffee table so vivid that you feel your furnishings actually breathe and participate in your daily routine? Impressive. The integration of nature with interior design is achieved by the MOSSdesigners of Verde Profilo. They use living moss, from Northern Europe, add a little bit of hi-tech science and research and the magic is done. The results take your breath away: six beautiful MOSScolors (called wasabi, liquorice, vanilla, menta, cumin and green pepper), clever made-in-Italy design objects (MOSStile, MOSSlight and others) and their endless combination possibilities. Now you can add a touch of eternal green to your metropolitan walls, which is especially recommended for notorious home-plant-neglecters. Garden Furniture. These pieces of garden furniture from Made In Design can offer an amazing visual effect. As you can see from these pictures the possibilities are endless. You can create all kind of models for your garden just use your talent of gardener and will be perfect in your gardens, parks, golfs and green spaces.
It is easy to look after, resistant and durable. If you are interested you can find more information about this product here. – Via – DesignersBlock.