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887 fake landscapes curtain hotel mixed ivies

Back to Shoreditch, this is the Curtain Hotel (which is now called the Mondrian from a quick Google). Not sure if the planting is still there, but there was so little light not much else would work. Maybe the secret of being beautiful people is to stay in the shadows so you can’t make out the fine detail? 887

886 mixed wild planting on copper wall

Very much a one off, a copper covered wall with custom planters (can you imagine the polishing?!) Trailing stuff didn’t work, so we made it look as if the plants were doing really well and were just about to spill out - but hadn’t quite. 886

885-Fake-landscapes-low-level-carlton-tower

You’d be forgiven in thinking this was some funky converted power station, but it’s really the approach to the swimming pool area at the Jumeirah Carlton Tower hotel in Knightsbridge. Nice people, kudos to them for trusting us and giving us a free hand! 885

884 fake landscapes chiltern firehouse high level

This is what we did for the opening of the Chiltern Firehouse in Marylebone with some funky French designer dudes. We’ve not been back to try the food as they’ve been booked solid for years. Must be the plants… 884

883 fake landscapes high level ivy on clients framework

A simple solution, just a nice sprawling jumble of our UV green ivy - across what looks like the sort of framework that used to hold those naff lucite panels in the restaurants’ previous incarnation. Actually, it’s probably hand-built from gender-neutral steel by bearded chaps, this being W11 and all… 883

882 Ricoh SHH

The same idea being used to separate areas in the restaurant at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry. The buckets are a nice idea, they cost next to nothing and work really well because the heights can easily be adjusted. Design by the ever-stylish SHH, also thanks to them for the picture - by the time we finished the job it was too dark to see! 882

881 Fake Landscapes MAM Notting Hill Hanging Planting

Way out west in the wilds of Notting Hill, this uses our standard window boxes with a variety of succulents of the sort you see trailing down stone walls in the Mediterranean. It’s high enough up to be out of your hair and makes an otherwise dull skylight a feature. 881

880 ferns

Back to Shoreditch, this is a neat idea using a fairly sizeable 2.4 metre planter to bridge the gap between a high ceiling and the main reception area – large enough to allow us the chance to throw every variety and size of fern we had at it! 880

879 Fake Landscapes high level dangly modern planting

This is a perfect example of how it should be done, and that’s not us showing off -because we didn’t do the final bit! Covid restrictions meant we couldn’t get to site to install, so we pre-built all the sections in the workshop and shipped them to the hotel in Bath. The talented Maria at Park Bench design and her team actually fitted everything, and the end result looks great. Teamwork! 879

818 mixed style mosaic

This is a mosaic of arrangements that are some way away from our usual style, but were parts of large projects where fifty or sixty variations on the theme were needed. That sort of volume justifies making samples and so on – but sadly it’s not something that works for a one-off. FYI the upper set were for a bank in Saudi Arabia, and the lower ones for a person that really, really liked rose domes. At home, and on the yacht, and the plane - everywhere, in fact! 818

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