• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Heavy Petal

Gardening for everyone

  • About
  • Journal
  • Small-Space Vegetable Gardens
You are here: Home / Outdoor Living / Rephorm design

Rephorm design

January 5, 2008 by Andrea Bellamy 2 Comments

dialounge_graphit_375.jpgBerlin-based Michael Hilgers is a busy fellow. An architect by training, he is also a skilled joiner who enjoys designing retail products. He had designed and independently produced the stackable polyethylene dialounge pair chair (above) and was touring it around at product fairs, where he discovered a dearth of outdoor design products – especially for small spaces like balconies and terraces.

Steckling_375.jpg With this revelation, rephorm was born, and with it, the “Steckling” planter (above), sold outside Germany as On-the-Edge.

Says Michael, “Our aim is to translate typologies which are known for the interior into products for the architecture bound outside space. These products should occupy existing structures in a friendly and symbiotic way without drilling and screws. They don’t need additional clamps or feet. The products just use the most simple way to connect themselves with architecture.”

Sling_Quadrat_375.jpgHence Sling, a lamp that easily affixes to an existing railing (above). You can shop for rephorm products here.

Michael also publishes a balcony blog, Gruenes Wohnzimmer, which translates as “green lounge room,” where he reports on balcony-related products and news.

Related posts:

Default ThumbnailDesign assistant

Filed Under: Outdoor Living Tagged With: garden, Garden Design, gardening, Outdoor Living, rephorm

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. delilah says

    January 10, 2008 at 4:10 am

    that blog has some really cool & interesting things on it but oh my goodness – that header photo was entirely too much! what a riot! thanks for the link!

  2. Andrea says

    January 12, 2008 at 2:48 pm

    Delilah – LOL. You’re so right. I’m hoping that photo is supposed to be inspiration for his balcony photo contest!

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Primary Sidebar

My latest book

The bright, illustrated cover of Small-Space Vegetable Gardens
Small-Space Vegetable Gardens by Andrea Bellamy

newsletter

Subscribe to receive occasional email updates (I promise never to spam you!)

Reader Favourites

Round, cookie-dough-like balls of clay and seed

How to make seed balls

Colourful quinoa plants in bloom

Would you grow your own grains?

This proves it. Chickens are hot.

Categories

  • Annuals
  • Blogging
  • Bulbs and Tubers
  • Composting
  • Critters and wildlife
  • Events
  • Garden Design
  • Garden Tours
  • Gardens to Visit
  • Green Gardening & Living
  • Holiday
  • How To
  • Indoors
  • Inspiration
  • Miscellaneous
  • My garden
  • Outdoor Living
  • Pacific Northwest
  • Perennials
  • Ponds & Water Gardening
  • Raving and Whining
  • Resistance is fertile
  • Resources
  • Retail Therapy
  • Shrubs & Trees
  • Small-Space Vegetable Gardens
  • Sugar Snaps and Strawberries
  • Uncategorized
  • Veggies & Edibles
  • WTF?
  • Home
  • About

Copyright © 2023 · Infinity Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in