Willy Guhl Conical Planter

This Willy Guhl planter is the conical form at its larger size: a wide bowl that opens upward from a small round foot, with sides that run straight and steep so the whole piece reads as one clean line. The fiber cement has gone a soft limestone gray with warm beige underneath and a faint mossy darkening across the lower half. The surface is matte and chalky, marked with fine scratches, small pits and patches of discoloration from years outdoors. The rim is thin and gently worn, rounded by weather, and the inside is dry and powdery to the touch.

It measures 28 inches across and 15 inches high. The piece is an original Eternit planter from Switzerland, mid-century, and shows the age it has; the wear is honest and we have left it alone. At this diameter there is real soil volume for roots.

A planter of this size takes an olive, a citrus or a layered mix of grasses, and holds its own alone at the end of a gravel path or on a concrete terrace. Set beside smaller Willy Guhl planters it gives a run of the same form in several sizes. It is in our yard in Marina Del Rey; come and see it, or ask us for photographs and a delivered price.