Willy Guhl Tilted Planter

A Willy Guhl planter in the tilted form: an asymmetric bowl on a cinched pedestal, with the rim cut on a steep incline so the whole piece seems to lean and move. The outside is heavy and matte. Deep charcoal and slate tones bleed into pale ash across the inside of the basin, a highly varied, mottled patina with strong shadows. Along the flared lip the surface breaks into a coarse pitted rim that exposes the raw aggregate and the thickness of the cast.

It measures 25 inches across and 18 inches high. It is an original Eternit piece, Swiss and mid-century, the darkest of the tilted planters we currently hold. The pitting along the rim is old and stable.

In a gravel courtyard the angled silhouette stands alone; in a glass atrium it gives the light room some weight; flanking a wide entry it steers the eye to the door. The ashen finish reads sharply against hand-troweled plaster and sits well with dark oak flooring or rolled steel. Trailing plants spill forward from the low side of the rim. This Willy Guhl planter is in our yard in Marina Del Rey; come and see it, or ask us for photographs and a delivered price.