Posts tagged moss
Indoor Moss Wall
Feb 15th
Green moss wall
Here’s a unique look to interior design – a type of 3D green wall paper. It’s dried moss carefully glued into a pattern on an interior wall that makes a unique looking design. The design was originally done by a Tokyo-based design firm – Nendo. I’d imagine this would be actually fairly easy to try.. just need some dried moss, a stencil and some glue and you’re away to the races. Since the moss is dry.. you don’t have to worry about watering and that. It’s not going to be active. It’d be for the purely asthetic effect.
Moss wallpaper 3d
Moss indoor designs
Moss Greenwall
Green Door – Midori no Tobira
Dec 9th
Living moss wall
At the 2008 Chelsea Flower Show, designer Kazuyuki Ishihara created Midori no Tobira which mean Green Door. That was the third year in a row he won the gold medal for his designs. He made this with rooftop gardens in mind. He wanted it to be like a ’secret garden’ so when people stepped out onto the roof and into this garden, they wouldn’t believe they’re still on the roof. It was inspired by Kazuyuki’s memories as a child of hiding out on the rooftop in his favorite space The garden was made out of green moss on the walls and doors and makes gives it a fresh and clean, yet cozy feeling.
The garden below is called the ‘Garden of clouds’ and Kazuyuki won the gold medal at the Chelsea Flower Show for this in 2007. You can see he loves building living moss walls which gives a really soft and peaceful look to the gardens.
Vertical moss garden
Midori no Tobira
A Tokyo Living Wall
Nov 2nd
Here’s another form of this eco-friendly wall art. Hokkaido Sanyu Corp made River Re Wall which is wall art made out of mostly moss.
They have an irrigation system put into the wall.. so just plug it in and you’re good to go. Japan trends indicates they go for $7,000-26,000. You’ll notice that the one on the left actually has rocks built right into it. It’s a nice touch to a rock wall.
These walls are probably pre-grown with moss before they’re sold which may help explain that really high cost. It looks to be the Rolex of living walls apparently. It’s a good look, but I couldn’t help thinking of a super cheap method of achieving something remarkably similar.
It’s the moss paintings.. they’re surprisingly easy to do. What you need is a clump of moss, beer and a blender. Blend the moss and the beer in a blender, then you can literally paint the mixture onto the wall.
The above looks a bit raw in my opinion, but you can see how it works. That art was done by Edina Tokodi from Williamsburg, Brooklyn. If you used stencils and painted the moss mixture onto the wall, you could really make it look impressive. The purpose of the beer is to give it the food/nutrients it needs. Does it look good? What do you think?
