Those of us who spend our days in an office can appreciate the pleasures of cultivating a desk plant. Office plants serve the purpose of breaking up a muted grey space and providing a connection, however tenuous, to the “outdoors.”
But what does our desk plant say about us? Polly Brown, a London-based photographer, has spent the past year documenting the plants that bloom in the headquarters of Louis Vuitton, A.T. & T., Nike, Vogue, and even The New Yorker. (My own slightly neglected jade plant makes an appearance.)
Brown’s idea was to present the office plant as a representation our “biophilic desires.” The photographs in her survey, which now appear in a monograph published by Pau Wau Publications, are both humorous and revealing; an ode to the humble office plant and its owner.
Polly Brown will sign copies of her book this Thursday, July 17th, at Green Fingers NYC.
