Art + Botany: The Tree Circus
In the 1950s, California's southern coastline could be mapped by its roadside attractions. A land of limitless dreams and unclaimed parcels of soil, it offered post-war America the opportunity to see...
View ArticleArt & Botany: Xavier Dumont's Twig-Charmed Furniture
Xavier Dumont’s hand-sculpted furniture pieces twist with an organic elegance that looks like he willed the branches to weave themselves into loose shapes. Those natural forms wind up resembling a...
View ArticleBotanic Notables: The Fruit Salad Tree
Last year I met a woman who had just moved into a house with an extraordinary tree, she said—one that grew lemons, limes, and oranges. On the same tree? A backyard citrus bounty is standard practice in...
View ArticleJessica Rath: Take Me To the Apple Breeder
Jessica Rath is neither a pomologist nor a horticulturalist. She's not even particularly fond of eating apples. The Los Angeles-based artist's interest in apples is, as she says, purely philosophical....
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