Art or Decoration?
Living Walls as Public Art
Yes, and. Planted walls can match the furniture, and provide transformative, inspirational, esoteric experience, and also fresh air (literally). Living walls are now qualifying for 1% For Art grants and other incentives, as noted below.
Metropolis Magazine highlighted Habitat Horticulture's Oakland, California living wall, titled "Urban Ecotones." This wall was commissioned for the lobby of a new office building.
"Shorenstein (the developer) received financial credit for installing Urban Ecotones as a public artwork, making it the first living wall to earn that designation in the United States."
(May 2020 issue, "AMENITY, Natural Canvas" by Lydia Lee, p. 32)
Stephanie designed and planted this wall at Armstrong Gardens' headquarters.