Igor Josifovic - Urban Jungle: Living and Styling with Plants

URBAN JUNGLE

LIVING AND STYLING WITH PLANTS

IGOR JOSIFOVIC
JUDITH DE GRAAFF

LIVING AND STYLING WITH PLANTS

WITH PHOTOGRAPHS BY LINA SKUKAUSK AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY SAAR MANCHE

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DIY Hanging planter

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Growing succulents

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Terrarium

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Plant stand

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Botanical frame

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Kokedama

PLANTS AT HOME
YOUR OWN URBAN JUNGLE

Everything started back in 2013 with a chat between two friends in a Parisian caf. Over coffee, we talked about interior styling, our love for redecorating and about plants. It was right there and then that we discovered our common passion: our love for plants.

We quickly came up with the idea of choosing a green topic each month and interpreting it through plant styling on our blogs. After the first month we had other bloggers asking to join us. Over the following months even more plant enthusiasts joined, and today, three years later to be precise, the Urban Jungle Bloggers community unites more than 1,200 plant enthusiasts and bloggers around the globe, from all over Europe, the United States, Brazil and even New Zealand.

The book Urban Jungle is like a long-awaited cactus flower. For three years we have been creating green living ideas with our community. We have peeked into hundreds of urban jungles all around the world, we have appraised unusual plant styling ideas and we have exchanged plant care tips. The moment has finally come to pack all of this green creativity into one book. The result is in your hands right now.

In Urban Jungle we will take you on an inspiring voyage across Europe to five green homes, taking a closer look at these creative peoples houseplants and chatting with them about plants, plant care and green styling ideas. Count on us: we will uncover their secrets and tips for you! Moreover, we have invited a group of amazing members of our Urban Jungle Bloggers community to showcase their plant styling ideas, DIY projects and green vignettes. But this publication is way more than just an inspiring coffee-table book to flip through: it also includes ten plant portraits and simple plant-care tips. It is no botanical encyclopedia it is a book for everyone who wants to bring more green into their home, no matter whether they are a beginner or an expert. We do not believe in the concept of the so-called green thumb. We prefer to believe that anyone can live with and care for plants. All you need is the right information and this book is a first step in the right direction.

On this note: get inspired, get informed and get green with your own plant styling at home. Urban Jungle is more than just a book it is a one-way ticket to your own lush, dreamy urban jungle. Heres to plants!

IGOR & JUDITH
urbanjunglebloggers.com

In the middle of the Green Heart of the Netherlands, close to tulip fields, greenhouses and windmills, Marij and Evert live with their two cats and 50 plants. While the surroundings of Alphen aan den Rijn may be as ordinarily Dutch as can be, this creative couples home is atypical and contemporary.

Together with their two cats, Def and Mos (not pictured), Marij and Evert live in a cosy and colourful home in the green heart of Holland .

Marij runs her own online shop for vintage and upcycled furniture and ceramics, and also works as a fashion stylist, photographer and blogger, while Evert works as a visual merchandiser for a fashion brand. The couples sense of style can be felt in every room: theres not a single corner that looks dull or messy. And any time Marij thinks a room needs a bit of pep, she reaches for paint and brush and isnt afraid to add a graphic shape to the wall in mint or palm green for example. Her latest splash is the dusty pink wall in the dressing room, which complements the camel-coloured accessories and the deep green of the Alocasia and Euphorbia triangularis so well.

I FIND A LOT OF NICE PLANT POTS AT THRIFT SHOPS. I COMBINE THEM WITH NEW MODERN POTS FROM THE GARDEN CENTRE.

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Marij painted the vintage chest in a pale pink for some #plantsonpink perfection .

The linear details of the artwork are reflected by the pink line pattern on the leaves of the Maranta leuconeura erythroneura .

A hanging Rhipsalis, a fern, succulents and a cactus are joined by some vintage friends from the African jungle