It’s unclear if Gartenkultur takes on custom jobs (or if the pots will ever be available outside of Italy) but if they did, this would be an opportunity to have some real repurposing fun. Have a dusty copy of War and Peace that you’ll never read that’s taking up valuable real estate on a shelf? Are your outdated law school textbooks not selling that well on eBay? Perhaps it’s high time you resurrect those well-loved childhood copies of Where the Red Fern Grows and The Secret Garden from storage. Or better yet, unearth the entire Dollanganger series from V.C. Andrews that you've been hiding under your bed but won't part with for sentimental reasons. I can't imagine a better way to confront literary shame than to turn the offending books into planters. 

 

Head on over to the Gartenkultur website where there’s a photo gallery with plenty of fetching recycled book-pots on display. The website appears to be filled with all sorts of deep, metaphorical plant/book/rebirth talk which is just fine but when all is said and done, Gartenkultur planters are just straight-out cool looking.