Pop Erratics

(Just randomly posting a random spinning fake rock. Should you need to cover unsightly pumps, utility boxes, septic lids or those prize-winning rose bushes from the winter cold, it's available from “the internet's largest selection of real fake rocks.” Also ideal for xeriscaping peak water landscapes.)

Future Millinery

(PAM Spring/Summer 2010 Garden of Earthly Delights Lookbook. The piece on the left is constructed out of jacquard “architect” fabric. Note the tote.)

Australian-based clothier PAM (a.k.a. Perks and Mini) have released their Spring/Summer 2010 collection, called Garden of Earthly Delights. Perhaps mirroring the alien weirdness of Hieronymus Bosch's masterpiece, it's a fantastical amalgam of Justin Bieber's Urban Outfitter, inner city sensibilities exploited in earlier seasons by Tommy Hilfiger, and coastal chaviliciousness. Obviously the key accessory here are the vegetal chapeaux, photosynthesizing organic and local nourishment as well as phytoremediating contamination accumulated from childhood vaccination regimes and years of eating frozen chicken nuggets, all the while just being awesome to the extent that Lady Gaga could never approximate.









In the Archives:
Bouffant Topiary

(Spotted at Beton & Garten.)

Sunnydale

Nothing will bring your dinner guests to discuss ironically about urban blight, spectacularly failed city planning policies and grotesque economic inequalities faster than David Monsen's graphically neat wallpaper, Sunnydale Trailer Park.

Neo-Baroque for the socially conscious.



Or could this be a new form of environmental determinism? Plaster this all over the nursery, and you've got yourself the next Daniel Burnham. Use it to cover the walls of a kindergarten classroom, and you'll soon have a litter of future Baron Haussmanns. But whether that's a good thing or not will depend largely on the prevailing mood, fickle or otherwise, of landscape urbanists 20 years hence.



Next on the production line: Addis Ababa Slums, Harare Squatter City, Rio de Janeiro Favela, Casbah Algiers, Sadr City.

Garden Follies and Chinoiserie Pavilions by Andrew Zega & Bernd H. Adams

Pruned turns 1 year old today! And I've decided to treat it — i.e., me — I shall be treating myself to a few architectural notecards from Andrew Zega & Bernd H. Adams. To decorate my desk, trade, barter with, or use it as a passkey to a Kubrickian sex orgy.



























Link:
Architectural Watercolors & Architectural Renderings Zega & Dams

Landscape Architecture: The Musical

I wish. But in the meantime, there is the just released Busby Berkeley Collection, which packages together five of the visionary's greatest works: Footlight Parade (1933), Gold Diggers of 1933, Dames (1934), Gold Diggers of 1935, and 42nd Street (1933).

And it's got everything: dancing skyscrapers; gravity-defying pianos in deterrestrialized spaces; abstracted, disembodied, and dematerialized nubile bodies; ornamental, self-organizing crowds; Depression-era urbanism; hotels and arcadian watering holes teeming with pre-Code connubial bliss; Renaissance perspectives on acid; phantasmagorical stage sets; and a bitchless Bette Davis. You'll feel like singing and dancing afterwards. Marvelous!

In the Archives:
MILF:02 Spatializing the Marvelous: The Musicals of Busby Berkeley

Gardens-in-a-Bag

Portable Landscape. Mobile Landscape. Instant Landscape. The list of possible studios goes on.

Link:
Gardens-in-a-Bag