My Urban Garden Deco Guide

With a very stable base, this 155 cm tall set of LED reeds is quite enchanting and it highlights the fact Artemide have an increasingly rich and interesting outdoor offer.
www.artemide.com

Pols Potten in the Netherlands prove the saying ' le plastique c'est fantastique'. They have developed a version of the iconic Egg chair suitable for outdoor use. Available in black and white...

Hurrahhhh!

More at   www.polspotten.nl

The list of  top garden designers trained at Inchbald School of Design is a credit to their ambition to develop talents for the finest clients... Because, yes it is fine to have ideas but in this world ... having the clients with the budget to make them  become a reality is even better.

Talking about money ... My Urban Garden Deco Guide readers get a discount ... Shhhh !

www.inchbald.co.uk/inchbaldonline.html

We have seen a revolution in planters recently : from the oversized to the ultra creative ( a la Serralunga/Hadid...) but -quite oddly- new shapes themselves have not been the focus of attention. We have www.urbanware.co.uk to thank for this very simple novelty: the corner garden! It is always soooo obvious in hindsight that something was missing!

corner

My key find in terms of furniture at this year's flower show was the work produced by Jonathan Stockton. I am not surprised to discover his set of furniture has been bought to enhance a private home in London's ultra chic Chelsea.

The set has three very unusual assets:

- it is festive : there is a matching Champagne stand and each piece can be fitted with an internal LED to bring it to light.

- he has developed a high back bench to match- right on trend ( this shape is a new must have)

- it is eco friendly : he produces them in FSC oak or reclaimed teak-on request and subject to availability and  has his own FSC chain of custody certificate

See more at www.jonathanstockton.co.uk