Modern is a word that means very little on a product page, so it is worth saying exactly where the line is drawn. This collection is the angular forms: rectangles, squares, cubes and corner units, with flat faces and no moulded detail. Tapered rounds, bowls and jars are contemporary too and they are in the main collection; they are simply a different vocabulary, and mixing the two in one list would make the list useless.
The reason to choose an angular planter is usually spatial rather than aesthetic. A flat face sits flush to a wall, a railing or a glass balustrade with no wasted gap, and two units butt together to make a continuous run. A round planter cannot do either. That is why straight-sided planters dominate terraces, roof decks, restaurant frontages and office fit-outs, where the planter is dividing space rather than decorating it.
Finish carries a lot of the modern reading on these shapes. A matte finish keeps a large flat face reading as one plane, where a gloss breaks it with a highlight. Every form here is available across our full range of finishes, so the same box can be a quiet architectural grey or a deliberate gloss statement.
