Styling tips: stone pots indoors and outdoors
A stone pot is not just for the garden. Here is how to use them as interior objects in your living room or hallway.
Most people associate stone pots with the garden. Understandable, but it is only half the story. Our finest pots are appearing more and more indoors, as sculptures in living rooms, hallways or bedrooms.
Indoors: less is more
As an interior object, a stone pot works best as a solitary focal point. One large pot in an empty corner is more powerful than three small pots grouped together. Pair it with a minimalist plant, an olive tree, a fern or simply leave it empty, for maximum effect.
The texture of stone works well against warm tones: terracotta, leather, wood. In a white or grey space, a dark slate pot provides exactly the weight the design needs.
Outdoors: composition and scale
In the garden, repetition is your friend. Three pots of different heights but the same stone type create rhythm without chaos. Do not line them all up in a row. Play with depth and overlap.
Large pots mark entrances, corners or terraces. Smaller pots fill niches, steps or wall edges. Never mix more than two stone types in one composition, that keeps it restful.
