Collection: Studiology

“I’m from a region of Bolivia where the vegetation is exuberant, and my mom has the greenest thumb on earth, so I grew up surrounded by wild and cultivated greenery – both outdoors and indoors,” says Rosma Gutierrez of Studiology. Now, she makes her home with her husband in New York’s Hudson Valley. “While the vegetation here is of a different type, it is also very lush and vibrant, and I find it super inspiring,” she says. “So much so, that even though my background is in furniture design, I find myself increasingly drawn to creating beautiful containers to fill my home with live plants and flowers.” For Bloomist, Rosma has created a series of “bark” planters, made from “a slab that I first texture to create the ‘bark’ texture,” she says. “Each slab’s bark pattern and edge expression is unique, so that plays a role in how I end up cutting and seaming the planters together. I select areas of the slab that have nice movement and where the edge is also interesting, because then the edge will become activated once plants are spilling over them in an organic way. Every planter is essentially a one-of-a-kind — so they feel special. And they are lots of fun to make.”