Mies’s Shelf

“Mies’s Shelf is a walnut wall shelf with a thin, painted underside, designed to carry a living olive tree. The piece borrows something of Mies van der Rohe’s language of slender horizontals and disciplined structure, but here that modernist line ends not in glass and steel, but in roots and leaves. The pot plant leans into the architectural clarity of the shelf, so that furniture, painting, tree and shadow read as a single, quietly balancing composition.”