Designed by architect Jean-Jacques Hubert, the Grass Mirror belongs to the “Cultivated Furniture” collection edited by the Compagnie. This collection’s firm intention is to make up for the lack of greenery we all suffer from in our city lives, by introducing vegetation in the heart of our apartments.
One fact is sure: plants are good for our health! Their presence in our life spaces purifies the air and heals the senses – and yet Parisians only benefit from 2.5 square meters of public garden per inhabitant! The strong idea behind the Grass Mirror is to introduce vegetation easily, on a surface that has only too little been used for this purpose: the walls. The plants can thereby regain their rights in spaces where they had been banned, in the office or at home, without stealing the place of the furniture. Every box is independent. The user is therefore free to determine the number of boxes he or she wishes, in order to obtain a square of vegetation of the required dimension.
Jean-Jacques Hubert is a practicing architect since 1999; he collaborated with Jacob + Macfarlane then Bernard Tschumi until 2007. He has been teaching architecture at the ESAT since 2006. He founded the H20 architecture firm in 2005 with Charlotte Hubert; they were nominated in 2008 for the promising young architect competition organised by the French Ministry for Culture. Antoine Santiard then joined the agency. They have recently been listed in the Wallpaper magazine “World Architects Directory 2009” (photos by Nathalie Jouan).
