Verdigris Eucalyptus Basket

A handwoven seagrass basket filled with dried baby blue eucalyptus, standing about two feet tall. The one piece in the group with real height.

The entry table is the first thing anyone sees and the last thing anyone gets around to. It usually ends up holding keys.

This finishes between twenty-two and twenty-four inches tall, out of a handwoven seagrass basket close to ten inches across. Dried baby blue eucalyptus in soft grey-green rises well above the weave, so it reads as height rather than as a bowl with something in it. Coarse matte basket, soft matte leaf, no shine anywhere.

It's enough on its own. Nothing needs to go beside it.

Dried, so it holds its shape and color with no water and nothing to keep up with.

Dimensions

• Finished: 22 to 24 in tall (56 to 61 cm)
• Basket: 9.8 in wide x 8 in tall, not including the handle (24.9 x 20.3 cm)
• Handwoven and arranged by hand, so height and fullness vary slightly piece to piece

Materials

• Basket: Handwoven seagrass, lined
• Stems: Dried baby blue eucalyptus

Product details

• Handwoven seagrass basket with a liner, filled with dried baby blue eucalyptus
• Finishes 22 to 24 inches tall
• Soft grey-green that holds without water
• Sized for a console, entry table or a wide shelf
• Dried in house at House of Lilac's Miami studio, then arranged by hand
• Made to order. Allow 3 days to make and hand to the carrier
• Natural variation in weave, height, stem density and color is expected

Two feet of it
Twenty-two to twenty-four inches finished. Most dried arrangements ask to be grouped with something else to look like a decision. This one is the decision.

Woven against leaf
The seagrass is coarse and matte, the baby blue eucalyptus soft and matte. Two textures with no shine between them, which is why it reads warm rather than styled.

Muted, not bright
Baby blue eucalyptus reads soft grey-green rather than fresh green, which is what the variety is named for. It sits with almost anything already in the room instead of competing with it.

Dried in house
The greens are dried in house at our Miami studio, then arranged by hand. It's slower than buying stems already dried, and it's how the color stays in one family across every piece we make.

Nothing to keep up with
No water, no trimming, no swapping anything out on a Sunday. Dried stems hold as they are.

Care

Keep it dry. No water, ever. Water works against dried stems rather than for them.

Dust it now and then. A gentle shake outdoors, or a low hairdryer setting held at a distance. That's the whole routine.

Where it holds best. Out of direct sun and away from steam. Strong sun fades dried color over time, and bathrooms and humid rooms soften the stems.