The Chanteloup Planter

by Charlotte Moss

20”H x 21.5”W Code 1143

Bunny Williams is one of America’s most talented and successful interior designers. After many years with the renowned Parish-Hadley Associates, she started her own design company, Bunny Williams, Inc., in 1988 and was inducted into the Interior Design Hall of Fame in 1996. But her passion is gardening. At her home in Connecticut she has created the most beautiful garden — a true collection of magnificent outdoor rooms. Together with antiques dealer John Roselli, Bunny owns the spectacular garden ornament store Treillage. With her exquisite taste, her natural talent for decorating outdoor spaces and her great eye for garden ornaments Bunny Williams is truly in a class by herself.

by Bunny Williams

12”Ø x 12”H Code 1025

Robert Dash was an accomplished artist and gardener. His paintings are in over two dozen national and international museums. He was the founder of the Madoo Conservancy and the author of “Notes from Madoo”.

“I wanted The Poetry Pot to look ancient and hoary, as if it had been buried for centuries under the sea, which is why some of the words have been rubbed out. The script was incised in imitation of cuneiform or something Greek. The various rhymes circle around Madoo, which means “My Dove”, therefore “love” and “glove” and “above”. The text has echoes of my favorite Gertrude Stein: ‘I am rose’.”

by Robert Dash

9”Ø x 20.5”H (7”Ø)* Code 1121

Abbie Zabar

“I consider my own gardens — where a clay pot is never less important than what’s planted in it — when Mara and Lenore ask me to design a pot for the SEIBERT & RICE‘American Collection.’

I draw a basic Long Tom. It grows into a Longer Tom with a thin rolled edge at the top. And another roll at the base, for balance. I doodle wispy vines. They will be incised above and below the rims. I doodle some friendly critters, homage to my coworkers in the gardens that we share.

They are hand-throwing the pots that I designed, these artisans of Impruneta who don’t speak any English. My Italian couldn’t be worse. Yet, positioning Abbie’s critters with the flying ones on top and the crawlers on the bottom, that was their interpretation. We’re talking the same language, the language of the garden.”

by Abbie Zabar

14”Ø x 21”H (12”Ø)* Code 1122

Guy Wolff

“I am so excited and happy to have the chance to do this project with Mara and Lenore of SEIBERT & RICE. The work they have brought over from Impruneta has always been a joy for me to see, and I am very proud to be invited to work with them and their potters. I wanted to put together a collection of pots that had a history for American gardening and pieces that might fill a gap in our gardening community. Each piece has a personal background for me and, I hope, will answer certain problems found in vessel placement in the garden. All of the pots work well together to make a wonderful presentation. I am so proud of them and look forward to seeing pictures of what you, the gardener, do with them.”

by Jack Lenor Larsen

25”Ø x 25”H (21”Ø)* Code 1153

Jack Lenor Larsen is a renowned textile designer, author, collector, and the founder of the magnificent Longhouse Reserve in East Hampton, NY. “As LongHouse is much involved these days with annual planter exhibitions, I designed a new planter series with the fulsome bowls elevated on sturdy pedestals. This new form was inspired by a princely Japanese lacquer bowl.”

by Ryan Gainey

Small – 10”Ø x 9.5”H (8”Ø)* Code 1038

Large – 19.5”Ø x 19”H (16.5”Ø)* Code 1037

Gardener, designer, author, showman. Anyone who has ever met Ryan Gainey will never forget him. He is an internationally renowned and awardwinning garden designer and has designed an extensive and beautiful collection of home and garden accessories. Ryan draws his inspiration for all of his work from nature. So, in designing these pots for us, he incorporated natural elements from his southern surroundings — pinecones and pine needles; acorns and oak leaves. The Turpentine Pot is inspired by the vessels used to collect pine sap for making turpentine in his native South Carolina.

by Ryan Gainey

Small – 11”Ø x 10”H (9”Ø)* Code 1027

Large – 19”Ø x 17”H (16”Ø)* Code 1026

Bee Pot

by Richard Hartlage

17.5ӯx

Code 1155

Bird Pot

23.5ӯ

19.5ӯx

Tree Pot

17ӯx

Code 1157

Birds, bees, flowers, and trees. Landscape designer, horticulturalist, gardener and bird lover, Richard Hartlage brought together all of his passions in this series for The American Collection. As a lover of joyful design, Richard incorporated the beautiful things that inspire him in the garden.

Traditional lines give the containers strong, functional forms. The birds, bees, flowers and trees create a modern and playful motif. Cheerfully warbling barn swallows swoop around the Bird Pot, and a stately California quail perches on the wood grain patterned rim. Honeybees buzz around the Bee Pot grounded by honeycomb. Trilliums delicately encircle the Hanging Flower Pot. The Tree Pot is ringed by a chain of native dogwood flowers, and white oak acorns line the base where a sweet songbird, the titmouse, rests.