Wonder Plants

GREEN IS THE NEW BLACK Green in your home is the latest trend in interior design. A range of world-class international interiors where wonderful plants take central stage demonstrate how you can transform your home into a green oasis, an urban jungle. This book is all about a passion for green, growing plants in your home, with practical tips for giving each plant its own spot and a helpful overview of their specific characteristics.

Twenty interiors by creative plant-lovers from all across the world are combined in a single book, including practical tips for varying in colour and size, an overview of the various types of plants, and suggestions for positioning and maintaining plants in your home…

YOUR URBAN JUNGLE INTERIOR

Irene Schampaert is a graphic designer and an award-winning blogger.

Judith Baehner is an author, blogger, freelance editor and stylist. In her green lab, she experiments with everything that adds a touch of green to life.

Irene Schampaert & Judith Baehner

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CINEMA FLORA CREMONA I IT

CINEMA FLORA CREMONA IT “A rare opportunity, a place with potential, but above all, love at first sight.” That’s how Attilio Solzi and Paola Galli described this old cinema they found during their search for a home in northwest Italy, in Lombardy. Their amazement was complete when they entered the building, surrounded by old farms.

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It was a soaring space awash in light. Countless elements worth keeping, and a wide range of options for dividing the space in original and imaginative ways. The conversion from a former cinema into a functional residence became a renovation process seeking a beautiful balance between the old and the new. The maroon curtains are still there, although they are now part of the kitchen, while the orange sign above the entrance has become the name plate. Several lovely design objects have been added to the interior, with a humoristic note here and there.

What was once the theatre is now the living room.

The ‘lounge loft’, as they now call the open space under the roof, is the relaxation area, as well as the spot where the plants in this house are kept: concentrated in a few square metres, with a huge impact on the rest of the house. The large Swiss cheese plant is partly responsible for that, as is the fiddle-leaf fig, which often grows to a tremendous size. They combine beautifully with the hanging plant which has been draped on the entresol, with ample room to grow.

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It was a soaring space awash in light. Countless elements worth keeping, and a wide range of options for dividing the space in original and imaginative ways. The conversion from a former cinema into a functional residence became a renovation process seeking a beautiful balance between the old and the new. The maroon curtains are still there, although they are now part of the kitchen, while the orange sign above the entrance has become the name plate. Several lovely design objects have been added to the interior, with a humoristic note here and there.

What was once the theatre is now the living room.

The ‘lounge loft’, as they now call the open space under the roof, is the relaxation area, as well as the spot where the plants in this house are kept: concentrated in a few square metres, with a huge impact on the rest of the house. The large Swiss cheese plant is partly responsible for that, as is the fiddle-leaf fig, which often grows to a tremendous size. They combine beautifully with the hanging plant which has been draped on the entresol, with ample room to grow.

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COCOON IN THE CITY NEW YORK I US

COCOON IN THE CITY NEW YORK US To Simon and Jessica, living in New York is no longer a matter of making compromises; not since they bumped into this apartment in Williamsburg, in an upscale neighbourhood.

It offers space and privacy, and a clever arrangement of spaces and strategically placed windows make it possible to create an oasis in the city.

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COCOON IN THE CITY NEW YORK US To Simon and Jessica, living in New York is no longer a matter of making compromises; not since they bumped into this apartment in Williamsburg, in an upscale neighbourhood.

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Text interiors: Irene Schampaert Text plants: Judith Baehner Image editing: Irene Schampaert Illustrations: Maaike Koster Translation: Joy Philips Graphic design & typesetting: Irene Schampaert Cover image: Serge Anton If you have any comments or questions, please get in touch with our editorial team: redactiekunst@lannoo.com. © Lannoo Publishers, Tielt, 2016 ISBN 978 94 014 3681 6 D/2016/45/241 - NUR 422/454/656 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording or any other information storage and retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publisher. Every effort has been made to trace copyright holders. If, however, you feel that you have inadvertently been overlooked, please contact Lannoo Publishers, Kasteelstraat 97,8700 Tielt, Belgium.

PHOTO CREDITS CINEMA FLORA CREMONA, IT

OFICIO STUDIO MADRID, ES

COMPACT WITH STYLE ANTWERP, BE

© Maria Teresa Furnari

© www.rebenque.com

© Bas Bogaerts

GREEN STATEMENTS MILAN, IT

SCANDINAVIAN IMMACULACY COPENHAGEN, DK

URBAN GREEN NEW YORK, US

© Serge Anton

© Photographer: Christina Onsgaard Kayser / IDECORimages.

© Erica Gannett

Stylist: Rikke Graff Juel / IDECORimages.

COCOON IN THE CITY NEW YORK, US © Emily Johnston

BOTANIC ELEGANCE GHENT, BE © Stefanie Faveere

PARIS TEXAS ANTWERP, BE © Tim Van de Velde

WUNDERKAMMER AMSTERDAM, NL © James Stokes GRAND SIMPLICITY SYDNEY, AU

GARDEN HOUSE TOKYO, JP © Iwan Baan

© Photos by Annette O’Brien

EXOTIC EYE CATCHERS BOSTON, US © Emily Billings

INDOOR JUNGLE LIER, BE

BOTANICAL CHARM PARIS, FR © Julie Ansiau

VERDANT CHARM BENTVELD, NL

for The Design Files

THONG HOUSE HO CHI MINH CITY, VN © Oki Hiroyuki

© Jan Verlinde

PENNY LANE SYDNEY, AU © Photos by Eve Wilson for The Design Files

PLANT CABINET MELBOURNE, AU © Armelle Habib

COLOUR BLOCK AMSTERDAM, NL © Photographer: James Stokes; Stylist: Judith Baehner

© Anouk De Kleermaeker