Plant
Collectors

The Plant Collectors put your plant collection on a pedestal. The stackable tubes can be filled with potting soil or placed upside down to CREATE height for a second flower pot. So it's a plant stand and flower pot in one!

The Plant Collectors are made of aluminium and coated with a special textured powder coating, which is also suitable for outdoor use. With a specially designed oak disc, two tubes can be attached to each other to create height. This attachment also ensures a watertight pot. For a single flower pot the disc acts as a decorative stand ring. Without the wooden disc, the hole at the bottom of the flower pots remains open so that excess water can flow away, making them suitable for outdoor use.

Variants:

The Plant Collectors are available in different height sizes so that you can create a personal plant landscape in your home and/or garden. You can start with a few pots and gradually expand your collection. With a special hanging mechanism, the Plant Collectors can also be hung.

the Vij5 steps
of the
Plant Collectors

Transparency of the production chain comes naturally to us.

For us, that doesn't just mean giving information about where something has been produced. Our chain starts much earlier: with the designer of the product!

We'll tell you the whole story. Click on the buttons to discover the different steps:

The Plant Collectors are designed by Arjan van Raadshooven & Anieke Branderhorst. Besides being Designers, they are also the founders of Vij5.

The idea for the Plant Collectors arose from a love for a systematic approach to DESIGN. Arjan, in particular, always gets excited about interesting connection systems, stackability, adaptability and interchangeability. In short, CREATING a certain degree of flexibility in a product. His architectural background is also clearly reflected in this product.

Anieke looked more at the poetic side. Flower pots are often placed at the edge of an interior (in the windowsill, in a corner of a room, etc). She was therefore looking for a way to make flower pots a more integrated part of an interior. The Plant Collectors are beautiful on their own, but their impact is enhanced when placed in a group. This way, for example, you could also place a plant collection/family in the middle of a room.

Anieke Branderhorst & Arjan van Raadshooven

In terms of materiality, the Plant Collectors are a nod to an archetypal flower pot:

"We wanted the flower pots to be subordinate to the plant, so we opted for a very basic design language and used standard aluminum tubes for this. The shape of the Plant Collectors is therefore sleek, thin and modern, but the special Powder coating gives the pots a certain structure and color nuance that hints at the traditional terracotta flower pot."

Arjan & Anieke

The idea for the Plant Collectors had been in our heads for a long time. Implementing it has been done in many small steps. We often get the question: "Do you still have time to design?"⁠

The funny thing, of course, is that we are actually involved in the process of designing every day. Every product in the Vij5 collection contains a 'piece of us'. But because we are so busy with so many different products by different designers, it is indeed more difficult for us to find the time and focus to put our own ideas into practice. We've just accepted that these processes just take a little longer nowadays 😉

We think the Plant Collectors are a great addition to the Vij5 collection because it is a product that everyone can probably find a place for, both indoors and outdoors! We also like that the product supports and stimulates a certain form of collecting, as the pots can really show off a plant collection in a group.

Arjan & Anieke

In this step, we translated an idea into a working product. Materialization was an important part of this, but so was functionality. We had quite a few requirements and wishes in both areas that we wanted the Plant Collectors to meet. We avoided making concessions as much as possible.

As a basis we used the biggest aluminum tube that was available at our metal manufacturer. We investigated the best way to weld the bottom into the pots, taking into account the water tightness of the pot, but also the wooden connecting disk that should be able to be attached to the pot.

Then we went looking for a suitable Powder coating because we wanted to make the pots distinctive in terms of 'touch & feel' from other flower pots that were already on the market. We also wanted the coating to be suitable for outdoor use.

The intermediate ring had to be designed in such a way that it became both a beautiful and functional detail to make the pots waterproof and to be able to connect them to each other. We also took a critical look at the proportions of the sizes of the pots in relation to the wooden disc. Finally, we sourced the small parts that are needed to attach the ring to the flower pots, such as bolts, nuts, rubbers and the suspension system.

The Plant Collectors are made in the Eindhoven region. First, the aluminum tubes are cut to size. Then a bottom plate is welded in by hand. Then the pots are treated several times with a special structure powder coating, making the pots suitable for outdoor use.

The oak disc is milled from solid oak and then treated with OSMO hard wax oil.

In the material passport you can find where and by whom the different parts of this product are made.

Want to see this product in real life?

Come to our showroom in Den Bosch or visit one of our ambassadors or other sales points.

In need of larger numbers or application in a project?

Please contact Arjan and request a quotation here.

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Showroom

We work from an easily accessible industrial hall (2 minutes from the A2) near the residential boulevard of Den Bosch. Most products can be seen here, but at the moment the showroom is in use for another large project. So please get in touch and especially let us know what you'd like to see, and we'll see what's possible!

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