Swiss 60's Concrete Ball Planter

A Swiss concrete ball planter from the 1960s, listed with our stone planters: a weathered sphere with an opening at the top, small enough to lift and heavy enough to stay put. The surface has worn to a pale, sun-bleached gray with the faint dust of soil still in it, marked by dark mineral speckles and soft abrasions. The rim is thick and gently uneven, smoothed by years of handling and weather.

It stands 11 1/4 inches high and measures 13 inches across. It is concrete rather than cut stone, as Swiss planters of this period were. The speckling and abrasions are its history, and we have left them as they are.

A small stone planter of this shape sits on a low garden wall or a step, where it can weather on; indoors it suits a sunny corner, a console or a bookshelf with a trailing plant or a succulent in it. The ball planter is in our Marina Del Rey showroom; see it by appointment, or we will send photographs and a price.