Hot New Design
Posted on May 26th, 2007 in General |
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Keeping up With What’s New
This past week I visited one of the finest restaurants in Las Vegas, the Joel Robuchon Restaurant at the MGM Grand. I went with friend Shane Pliska of Planterra who had done the origina design and installation two and a half years ago. It had been some time since I had seen the plantings and I was very anxious to see how well the design had held up.
"They’re My Babies"
The reason I was anxious was because the entire "Living Wall" that is the showpiece of the Garden is a large Wall, blacked out and fitted with over 240 Black wall mount TOPsiders filled with Ivy. There is no natural light, just accent lights and the floor beneath the Wall is filled solid with blooming plants. Spectacular. In fact one food critic raved on and on about the "Garden Room" with it’s living wall and recommended that patrons make sure their reservations were in that part of the restaurant. To my absolute delight, the Wall of Ivy was green and lush and appeared like this huge solid ivy backdrop. It was perfect.
What About Maintenance?
Glad you asked. TOPsiders always come with free capmat and using that maintenance only need be done every other week. So, this new hot design needs no fancy subirrigation drip system or any other handstands. Nope, just good old TOPsiders, wallmounted and with cap mat inside.
What do Others Think?
The design using the Living Wall has been so successful that in a few months another area of the restaurant, that had no greenery, will also feature a second Living Wall. Now that’s success.
This is a Hot New Design
Not for restaurant alone. Hospitals, Hotels, and other Public Lobbies will soon have an architect or designer asking you if you can "do" a Living Wall. And, if you hadn’t read this blog or hadn’t already worked with TOPsiders, you might just be spending a whole lot of time researching expensive shelving and irrigation systems but now you know the most effective and least expensive and easy to install system……TOPsiders. Next time you are in Vegas, check it out.

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