Concrete Planters That Move Like Water
Opiary’s new Aegir line starts with a hull. The Brooklyn studio hand-sculpts each piece in glass fiber reinforced concrete, drawing the profile from ship bows and the long arc of an ocean swell.
The result is a family of concrete planters that lean, taper, and cant. Some rise nearly to shoulder height. Others sit low and wide, more boulder than bowl. Grouped on a terrace, they read as a coastline. Placed alone in a lobby, one holds the room.
The line doesn’t stop at greenery. The same forms work as coffee tables, side tables, fire features, and seating. One vocabulary, several jobs. That flexibility matters when a rooftop deck or an amenity lounge needs a piece that earns its footprint.
GFRC takes weather without complaint, indoors or out. It also takes pigment, which turns color into a spec decision rather than a default. The base palette stays pale enough to disappear against poured concrete and warm enough to sit beside teak.
We’ve been tracking how planters cross into furniture, most recently with Hightower’s Stanza. Aegir makes the case in cast concrete.
Images Courtesy of Opiary




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