While spring may be a wonderful time to get plants in the ground, fall is the perfect time to begin designing your garden, and a time at which landscape professionals are available. To encourage you to get started this fall, Jennifer Voss of Gardefacts Landscape Design (www.gardefacts.com) and Arianna Jansma of Dramatically Different Landscape Design…
Planters, Pots, and Containers
Couleurs d’Anduze
Green. We all know green. And blue and honey-hued. Even red. But these new colors are just begging for description. How about “the color of an early morning Spring sky”? Or “the color of the Pacific Ocean as it meets the sky on a Summer evening”. There’s also “moody sky before a rainfall”. As you…
ANDUZE NEWS, NEW ANDUZE
The French have arrived! Our gift shop is filled with the beautiful pottery of Anduze. From our artisan manufacturer we have diminutive “coupes”, urns and Anduze vases. They all feature a beautiful antique patina that is unique among Anduze manufacturers. Every pot, from the Medicis Planter and Medicis Cup to The Perfect Wine Cooler is…
Pretend You Live at Versailles…
About once a year we receive a container from France. Inside that container from France is French pottery. Makes sense. But for some reason, this is the shipment that seems most exciting. The colors, sizes and finishes of this terracotta pottery are just the other side of spectacular. The first time we visited Anduze we went to…
Rocco: Un-contained
Eye of the Day is nothing if not a veritable mecca for terracotta pottery. We admire it, work with it, photograph it, describe it every day. And yet…and yet…we still get a little excited and a little dreamy when a new container is due to arrive at our door. Will there be new shapes,…
Not just terracotta anymore
We all know what terracotta looks like….we think. Terracotta is always a smooth, warm, orange/red/brown. It belongs with Mediterranean architecture and garden design, and unfortunately, it wears down with age and prolonged contact with water. ALL WRONG! Let us begin with color. Terrecotte San Rocco has an incredible new line of terracotta called Terre Colorate exhibiting vibrant…
