Cement Planters and Jardinieres

Great sculptural planter by Willy Guhl. Square frame raised on indented square base. All one piece. Good vintage condition and patina.  

Fantastic sculptural concrete planters by Willy Guhl. Large jug with handles on both sides and resting on 3 feet. Great patina to each pie...

Lovely set of three fibrous cement off-kilter tilted planters designed by renowned Swiss architect Willy Guhl for Eternit, circa 1960s. These iconic planters showcase Guhl’s minimali...

Great color off-white/blue/grey on this extra large Willy Guhl jardinière/planter, diameter is 86 cm.         

Rectangle shape planter. Made out of a concrete fiberglass composite. Originates from Switzerland. Circa, 1950.

Rectangle shape planter with carved ribbed edging. Made out of a concrete fiberglass composite. Originates from Switzerland. Circa, 1950.

Charming vintage French jardinière, circa 1950s. Cast in cement, and formed as a lovely wicker flower basket, with a high handle. Wonderful g...

Fun and gloriously rotund pair of planters with three "peek-a-boo" openings around their middles. They are made of cement with tiny pebbles amalgatmated into the mix, as was the fash...

Charming vintage French jardinière, circa 1950s. Cast in cement, and formed as a lovely wicker flower basket, with a high handle. Wonderful g...

Rectangular planter produced by the company "Eternit" in the 1960s, made of fiber cement, perfect for outdoor designs. Good original condition, with patina and marks that only the pa...

This pair of planters, model "oreille d'éléphant" was made of fiber cement by Willy Guhl (1915-2004) in the 1950's. « Willy Guhl was an inventor, an experimenter, a resercher and a visionary. Despite that, he did not get lost in utopia. He reveals himself to be pragmatic almost a genius. » Robert Haussman Willy Guhl was part of these historical designers historiques who have contributed to the international reputation of the Swiss design. He was one of the big representative of Neo-Functionalism. From a carpenter father, he follows a furniture maker formation in the Kunstgewerbeschule of Zurich – School of applied arts of Zurich here he teaches from 1941 -, and becomes the director of the interior architecture department 10 years after. He leads in the late 1940's pionneer reaserches in the plastic furniture field. He develops then a knowledge about moulding technical that we allow him to reveal himself by transposing them on a new material : the Eternit, also called fibercement, which he is one of the first to use in Europe. The Eternit is a kind of cement reinforce by asbestos and with a fiber texture which allows to create audacious pieces with new shapes. It takes the aspect of larges slabs to which it is possible to give a shape as long as they are not dried. Produced in the origin for the industry, it's a cheap material with an important resistance, so perfectly adapted for the fabrication of external furniture.

A fine pair of oval planters, France, circa 1930 Dimensions: Height 16", width 26 1/2", diameter 16 1/2" CW4787.