May 12--Just as a good outfit can become a great outfit when paired with the right accessories, so too can an unassuming potted plant really grow on you when nestled in the perfect planter. We can't take credit for that analogy: It's how Bend Goods -- a Los Angeles-based furniture design and manufacturing company -- touts its newly launched plant stand. Available in white, black, aqua and peachy pink, this show-stopping planter has all the hallmarks of the Bend brand: superfunctional, sculptural, featuring a playful geometric pattern and made entirely of wire.
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"(Bend's) is a clean and modern aesthetic," company founder Gaurav Nanda said in a video for Design Milk. A Michigan native, he used to spend summers with his family in Palm Springs, Calif., which is where he first encountered midcentury-modern design of the desert variety. That MCM influence is strongly felt. Bend's dining chairs, for example, riff on Bertoia's iconic side chair. But there's a casual, youthful energy to Bend's wirework and Southwest color palette.
And speaking to that functionality: The galvanized and powder-coated plant stand is indoor/outdoor, so it can just as easily grace a porch or patio, frame a front walkway or adorn a living room. Bonus: Turn the stand upside-down in your garden for use as a plant cage, shielding fruits and vegetables from summer pests.
We recently took inventory of our semicrumbling, years-old terra cotta pots and sad hanging baskets and were inspired to elevate our pots-and-planters game this season. A plant stand with this much personality? Might be a game changer.
See bendgoods.com for ordering info and stockists.
Laura Pearson is a freelance writer.
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