Willy Guhl Tilted Planter

This Willy Guhl planter is the tilted form with a surface we have not seen on another: a heavily blistered, textured outer shell encrusted with a pale sea-green patina. The wide slanted basin sits on a pinched hourglass pedestal, with the open mouth facing outward rather than up. Inside the bowl the light green gives way to dark brown and black mineral deposits, framed by a coarse rim that exposes the raw fiber cement beneath.

It measures 25 inches in diameter and 18 inches high. This is an original, Swiss-made Eternit piece from the mid-century years. The blistering is stable and the color is weathering, not a glaze; it is the reason to choose this one.

The forward-facing opening makes it a display piece as much as a container, and it moves between indoors and out: a gravel path, a shaded courtyard, or a bright hall with a plain floor. Trailing foliage spills from the low side of the rim, or it stands empty. The green reads well against terracotta, old brick and pale plaster. This Willy Guhl planter is in Marina Del Rey; call to see it, or we will send close photographs of the green and a quote.