For the past month, the window of our department store PoPPo has been full of plants. Our latest venture is called PoPPo Plants, and we’re selling a personal selection of our favourites. We’ve already discovered that dotted leaves are all the rage. No webshop, but open Tuesday to Sunday.
Elsewhere
Buildings, interiors, websites… everything is starting to look the same. Almost 10 years ago, Kyle Chayka coined the term airspace for this. Now that more and more cultural output is coming out of pre-chewed AI sludge, the situation isn’t getting any better. Economist Tyler Cowen and Stripe CEO Patrick Collison are trying to change that. They’re on the hunt for 21ˢᵗ-century aesthetics, and they’re willing to pay for it.
The British project Vertical Meadow is turning graffiti walls, hoardings and bus shelters into (surprise, surprise) vertical flower meadows. Flowers in places you wouldn’t expect. Good for insects. And suddenly, a hoarding is no excuse.
This sales website for a resort in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, lets you fly over the landscape like a bird, almost like a video game. Pretty neat and quite different from the usual real estate sites. If you spot more of these unusual sites, let us know. Maybe we’ll put together a listicle one day.