Planter White Brown Mesa Large

2026-01-23T08:52:42-05:00

Vendor: Kelly Wearstler
Type: Planters
Price: 491.00

The Planter White Brown Mesa Large by Kelly Wearstler The Mesa planter arrives as a study in restraint and proportion. Its substantial form, neither squat nor attenuated, commands a corner or anchors a threshold without demanding attention. The white-brown glaze moves across the surface with the irregularity of natural weathering, each application distinct, suggesting the maker's hand rather than industrial precision.

The material itself reads as essential. Ceramic holds temperature differently than metal or stone; it breathes. Place it on a covered porch where morning light catches the glaze's subtle variations, and the planter becomes less object and more presence, a quiet anchor in the landscape of a room. What distinguishes this piece is its restraint. There are no applied ornaments, no textural flourishes competing for notice. The form speaks through proportion alone: the relationship between the vessel's width and height, the thickness of the rim, the way the body tapers toward the base.

This is design that trusts the viewer to notice. The hand-applied glazes mean no two pieces are identical. This isn't marketed as artisanal charm but rather acknowledged as the consequence of making something by hand. A planter that sits beside a linen chair, holding a single architectural plant, becomes part of the room's visual grammar, neither decorative nor purely functional, but both.

*Outdoor approved.