in search of roof garden

I wanted to do today the post about Mumbai’s (possibly) only (organic) rooftop garden. There is a certain BPT building I was in search of. But I lost my way and came back empty handed.

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I was caught in traffic wheel.

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I lost my way into an unplanned concrete jungle.

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After inhaling fumes of pollution for hours, I am so tired I want to turn myself into this green snail and rest in my cocoon.

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I am angry too so I threw some flowers randomly into this pond. And afterwords set by this next dark green pond.

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It all started with a fairytale.

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Into this fairytale garden.

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Two of them with kids lived in this home under the greens.

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In the backyards the children did their monkey jumping up and down this green rope.

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He, the one with greenest thumb sits there and paints the garden. She creats it.

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Remembering this she came back from her fury, nice and slow this long stem slide.

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All she wanted to do is sit in this romantic courtyard.

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The courtyard is surrounded with vertical green walls.

designflute boasting: among about 200 apartments complex her balcony is the greenest!

(Images via Srajan, House of pictures, Turenscape, Richard Schultz,  Petrick Blanc vertical garden, Tapestry landscape and GDU)

Eva Zeisel-playful works

It seems that all these pieces are about to speak to me. I sat there mesmerized after downloading a lot of images of her work. Designer, ceramist grande old dame Eva Zeisel’s work needs no introduction or great words. They just speak for themselves.evazeisel1.gif

100 year old Eva Zeisel’s more than 75 years of extraordinary work is so alive that it just pushes us to sit up and think about our own life.

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Her views on life “Everything is unexpectedly colorful. Life is a present. That is why one shouldn’t have scandals, one shouldn’t have ill humor, one shouldn’t be cranky–that is the moment that is life. One should respect it.

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“All my work is mother-and-child.”- Eva Zeisel.

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Her functional objects bend, stretch, reach. They recall birds, leaves, pregnant bodies, belly buttons and fruit with a pared-down elegance.

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Everything I do is a direct creation of my hands, whether it is made in wood,  plaster or clay.”Eva Zeisel

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Her exuberant designs (above-belly button room dividers) show her playfulness.

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Just a little curve that is perfect and never a wrong curve, that is what her designs is all about.

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She is called an industrial (machine age modern) designer and her creations show ‘friendliness’, ‘family relations’.

I keep wondering about her spirits and  I keep saluting this unstoppable lady’s works!

A few sites to see her work- (1) , (2) , (3) ,(4)

Images courtesy (& via) Evazeiselorangechicken,  SignonSanDiego, Nambe, Mindspring