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Besotted with Potted
I'm a hypocrite! I'm totally Miss 'Plants Plants Everywhere', but ...I have no indoor plants. It's not like I haven't tried - I had two Giant Birds of Paradise flanking the sliding doors that open onto my back patio,and they looked fantastic- so I planted them in my garden. I replaced them with two beautiful Monstera, and they looked even better ... so I planted them in my garden. My new project is an 'Indoor Landscape' for my living room - and I will NOT nab the plants for my garden.
So I headed out to Potted, a store in the Los Feliz area of LA that is devoted to beautiful pottery, incredible outdoor furniture, and all the accoutrements of the patio lifestyle.
What a blast! Just walking in thrills the senses - the colors and shapes reach out and grab you. They have containers of every size and style, plastic mats and Chilewich rugs, fountains ready -to-go-, and windchimes that you actually want to hang in a visible place ...
I chatted with Mary, who is as fun as her store is, about our past lives in "The Industry" - she'd been a set designer for years before the call of the wild. I followed her around as she showed me treasure after treasure, and then I saw them - gorgeous celadon pots in a rounded square shape with a cool bevel on the sides. I thought they'd look perfect in front of my Batchelder tile fireplace - the celadon would pick up the tiny random bits of green and turquoise.
So here they are in situ - what do you think? You can't really see the variation of the color in the tiles, but it's there. Now I just have to find the perfect plants... hhhmmmm....
Maybe Giant Birds of Paradise?
J'adore Pot-ted! And would you look at their garden chairs--don't they remind you of mine from the Greek garage sale lady in Brooklyn?
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Your new pots look amazing, Ivy. They're so old-time California. They remind me of 20s bungalow decor. I want to visit you this winter when it gets all dreary out here!
Mi casa es su casa, Doll - I'll share the sunshine with you anytime!
Oh what I wouldn't give for a store like that here in Honduras! And I love the pots you selected.
This store is so wonderful - I could have posted every picture I took because every corner of it is beautifully done. There is inspiration everywhere you turn - and don't we love being inspired?
I'll tell Mary she needs to open up a new branch in La Ceiba!