A round, textured ceramic planter pot with a distressed, weathered finish in muted green and beige tones, sitting on a light wooden surface with a blurred background of potted plants.
Willy Guhl mid-century concrete planter — Plant Drop
Willy Guhl mid-century concrete planter — Plant Drop
Willy Guhl mid-century concrete planter — Plant Drop
Willy Guhl mid-century concrete planter — Plant Drop
Willy Guhl mid-century concrete planter — Plant Drop
A round, textured ceramic planter pot with a distressed, weathered finish in muted green and beige tones, sitting on a light wooden surface with a blurred background of potted plants.
Willy Guhl mid-century concrete planter — Plant Drop
Willy Guhl mid-century concrete planter — Plant Drop
Willy Guhl mid-century concrete planter — Plant Drop
Willy Guhl mid-century concrete planter — Plant Drop
Willy Guhl mid-century concrete planter — Plant Drop

Willy Guhl Planters, Mid-Century Pair

A one-off pair — the exact two shown.

£695
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Opening Size: 25cm

Fits Nursery Pot: Up to 23cm

Compatible Liner: 30cm x 22cm

Delivered within 2 weeks·Free London delivery £150+·14-day returns

⌀40cm x H33cm — Matched Pair

  • Opening: 25cm
  • External (diameter × height): ⌀40cm × H33cm
  • Fits liner: 30cm x 22cm (⌀30cm × H22cm)

We hand-deliver across London with our own team — complimentary on orders over £150. Most orders arrive within two weeks; we'll arrange your delivery and confirm the day in advance.

London UK Scotland
Small & medium — plants under 170cm, pots, liners, accessories
Courier £6 £6 £6
Hand delivery Complimentary over £150
£15 under £150 		- -
Delivered & placed £30 £125 £250
Large — plants 170–220cm, large planters
Hand delivery · pallet outside London Complimentary over £150
£25 under £150 		£75 £95
Delivered & placed £40 £125 £250
Extra large — plants 220cm+, specimens, two-person pieces
Hand delivery Complimentary over £150
£25 under £150 		£125 £250
Delivered & placed £50 £175 £300

Courier — boxed and tracked; you'll get a dispatch email with a tracking link.
Hand delivery — our own team, to your door or ground-floor room. Complimentary across London on orders over £150.
Delivered & placed — two people, carried to the room you choose, unpacked, positioned, packaging taken away. Planting is a separate service — see planting & placement.

We currently deliver to mainland UK only — not Northern Ireland, the Isle of Wight or the Scottish Islands; the Scottish Highlands and remote postcodes are quoted before dispatch. Costs are calculated at checkout based on your items and postcode. See our delivery page for more.

Returns

On arrival — if anything isn't right, contact us within 48 hours with photographs and we'll put it right, covered by our 30-day plant guarantee.
Change of mind — let us know within 14 days. Plants, pots and accessories must be in their original, resaleable condition. Returns are subject to a collection charge, or can be sent back by post at your own cost; the outgoing delivery charge isn't refunded.

Space

Indoor & Outdoor

material

Fibre cement

Care & Use

Plant potted within, or sat inside on a liner.

Drainage Hole

Yes

Willy Guhl Planters, Mid-Century Pair

The exact pair pictured is the pair that arrives.

Mid-century cement planters of girdled ovoid form, the design attributed to Willy Guhl (Swiss, 1915–2004) — the pioneer of sculptural fibre-cement vessels whose pieces now sit in design collections and the best London gardens. One carries impressed numerals internally, consistent with period production.

Decades outdoors have given them a soft, weathered patina no new pot can offer — quiet authority in a doorway, on a terrace, or flanking a path. Offered as found, as a matched pair.

Willy Guhl mid-century concrete planter — Plant Drop
A round, textured ceramic planter pot with a distressed, weathered finish in muted green and beige tones, sitting on a light wooden surface with a blurred background of potted plants.

Design Details

Willy Guhl (Swiss, 1915–2004) pioneered sculptural fibre-cement vessels for Eternit in the 1950s; this girdled pair carries impressed numerals consistent with period production. Fibre cement is fully frost-hardy — they can live outdoors year-round. Plant potted within, or sat inside on a liner. Clean with water and a soft brush only — never scrub or pressure-wash: the patina is the value.

One pair, once — the exact planters photographed are the ones that arrive.

A pair of mid-century cement garden planters of girdled ovoid form, the design attributed to Willy Guhl (Swiss, 1915–2004) — the pioneer of sculptural fibre-cement planting vessels whose pieces now sit in design collections and the best London gardens. One carries impressed numerals internally, consistent with period production.

Decades outdoors have given them what no new pot can offer: a soft, weathered patina that reads as quiet authority in a doorway, on a terrace, or flanking a path. Girdled, generous and low — they take clipped evergreens, seasonal planting or a sculptural specimen beautifully.

Height 33cm · diameter 40cm · sold as a matched pair.

Sold as found, with the honest wear of their age — that is the point of them. One pair only; when they're gone, they're gone.

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