PAINTERLY REPOSE

Bring the French countryside to your garden without planting a thing, A line of seven patterns and 37 colorways has been reproduced from the archives of fabric designer Madame Paule Mar rot (1902-1987) and exclusively licensed to Del Greco Textiles, a new spinoff of the venerable outdoor-furniture company. Madame Marrot was the quintessential French textile artist and a leading contributor to midcentury modern design, producing more than 320 designs for fabrics and linens during a span of 40 years. Says Laurie Korobkin, president and owner of DelGreco Textiles, "Many of her designs were inspired by the gardens that she frequented throughout her life." Korobkin styled Marrot's original designs in a weather-resistant 100 percent acrylic to meet today's requirements for casual outdoor/indoor living. See the entire collection online.

LIVING JEWEL BOX

The beauty of her Living Necklaces, says landscape designer and sculptor Paula Hayes, "is that the wearer shows she can extend herself to nurture something that's alive, and live together with nature." Handmade from glittering stainless steel and silk threads, Hayes' Living Necklaces consist of small crocheted baskets that hold tiny epiphytes, or air plants, TiUandsM ionantha, which can fnrive without soil. The necklace materials are soft but durable and can safely be dunked, plants and all, for a litrle watering. The Manhattan-based designer keeps a nursery of the tiny bromeliads at her studio and swaps them in and out of her necklaces depending on her mood, T keep them in a basket out in the sunlight. It's so much nicer than having a jewelry box." Available with one to three baskets; prices start at $1,000. A new version with looser crocheted baskets has just debuted, priced f r om $ioo-$20o.

OFF THE RACK

Looking for art to add to client projects, Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer As her found a yawning gap between the Henry Moore bronzes in the Getty Canter's sculpture garden and those gnomes in your neigh- bor's backyard. So this UCLA-trained landscape designer teamed up wi:h etal-ben ding partner Mario Lopez to create a series of limited-edition modern sculptures scaled and priced the average garden. "The colorful ones are meant to be enjoyed from a distance, to pop the way you might use a flower with a distinct color, says Asher, "but the weathered-steel" pieces are actually my favorites. They continually change colors as they oxigrinning dize; it gives them a suedelike quality people want to touch," Asher says her pieces are the ultimate in sustainrr. ability because "they require nothing but admiration." Prices range from $1,900 to $2,900 and can be customfor ordered to size, terrasculpture.com