Dark Botanical Landscape Indoor Gardens as "Geological & Futuristic" Living Objects

Of-A reimagines indoor gardens as "geological and futuristic" living objects at Chelsea Flower Show

At this year's Chelsea Flower Show, multidisciplinary creative studio Of-A exhibited a dark botanical landscape featuring volcanic rock, burnt trees and delicate flowers set within a hemispherical metal structure.

Slow Dream is the second expression from Of-A's evolving series of so-called "garden objects", which it debuted with the Moon Garden during Frieze Week London 2025.

Of-A exhibited a dark botanical landscape featuring volcanic rock, burnt trees and delicate flowers at Chelsea Flower Show

The conceptual horticultural objects aim to bring fragments of landscapes indoors in the form of self-contained living gardens that forego traditional horizontal formats in favour of a more architectural approach.

Informed by interior garden traditions, the installations feature metal structures filled with plants and water features that utilise Of-A's own minimalist curving tap design.

The project was conceived to bring fragments of landscapes indoors

Slow Dream was presented as part of the Chelsea Flower Show's Floristry Laboratory programme, which invited floral artists to explore the boundaries of science, nature and plant growth through innovative techniques.

"We are interested in the garden not simply as landscape, but as an emotional and spatial condition," said artist Raluca Grada-Emandi, who co-founded Of-A with architect Laura Lim Sam.

"Of-A Garden imagines the garden as object, atmosphere and living presence simultaneously," she added. "With Slow Dream, we wanted to create something that feels both geological and futuristic, as though nature is continuously imagining itself into new forms."

Otherworldly metal structures were filled with plants and water features

Developed in collaboration with floral artists Wagner Kreusch and Frida Kim, the installation imagined the garden as a territory still in formation, rather than a finished arrangement.

via: https://www.dezeen.com