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Terraced stepped strata — eleven offset horizontal bands rising from a weighted base, layer lines expressed as deliberate contour shadow

Strata

A floor planter built like sediment — layer on layer on layer.

$175

Strata stacks eleven terraced steps into a floor vessel wide enough to anchor a corner. Each layer holds its own shadow line, so the surface reads as exposed sediment — cool stone you want to run a thumb down. The stepped walls thicken toward the base for a low center of mass that won't tip under a top-heavy canopy, and a recessed drainage well with a slip-in saucer keeps roots breathing and your floor dry.

Material
Color · Riverbed Clay
1
Dimensions
H 16.5" × Ø 13" (root well Ø 11"). Recessed central drainage hole with a slip-in catch saucer included; bottom bands thickened for ballast.
Plant pairing
Built for a fiddle-leaf fig — the deep root well and weighted base steady a tall, leaning canopy. Also holds a bird-of-paradise or a mature rubber tree.
Materials
Recycled PETG, Matte PLA, Wood-Fill PLA
The story

Strata started as a question about time: what would a planter look like if you could see it accrue? We modeled the body as deposited bands, each ring offset from the last the way silt settles in a cut bank. The result wears its layer lines on purpose — geology, not artifact.