Willy Guhl Cone Planter

A Willy Guhl planter in the cone form, a wide, low cast basin that draws the eye down to a sharp horizontal line just above the floor. The exterior is bone-dry and heavily textured under the hand, pale cream and dry sand fading to chalky gray inside the basin. The lip is jagged and coarse, showing the thickness of the unpolished cast. Below, an iron ring lifts the bowl and carries a weathered patina of deep copper and green rust.

It stands 15 inches high and measures 47 inches across the rim. It is an original mid-century Swiss Eternit piece; the coarse lip and the rust on the ring are its condition as found and we have not dressed them.

It stills a minimalist meditation garden, commands a wide gallery lobby from a low plinth, or sits beside a reflecting pool where its low stance matches the water. Charred cedar cladding behind it and a poured terrazzo floor beneath it set off the pale stone. The Willy Guhl planter is in our Marina Del Rey yard; see it by appointment, or we will send photographs and a delivered price.