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In the Studio with Hoxton Gardenware
Once known as London’s ‘nursery district’, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Hoxton in the city’s East End was filled with market gardens and plant sellers that supplied trees and flowers to the growing metropolis. Then a semi-rural area beyond the urban core, its clean air and open spaces made it ideal for cultivating plants and many horticultural businesses thrived.
As the capital expanded during the Industrial Revolution, these nurseries gradually disappeared, replaced by housing and production, but the area’s green past remains a fascinating footnote in Hoxton’s history.
It’s that history that inspires the team at Hoxton Gardenware, a youth-led, not-for-profit enterprise producing small-batch terracotta plant pots using traditional studio pottery techniques.
Discover our partnership with Hoxton Gardenware and the pieces in our Spring Summer 2026 collection via the link in bio.
Words by Claudia Baillie.
Photography by Lesley Lau.
Once known as London’s ‘nursery district’, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Hoxton in the city’s East End was filled with market gardens and plant sellers that supplied trees and flowers to the growing metropolis. Then a semi-rural area beyond the urban core, its clean air and open spaces made it ideal for cultivating plants and many horticultural businesses thrived.
As the capital expanded during the Industrial Revolution, these nurseries gradually disappeared, replaced by housing and production, but the area’s green past remains a fascinating footnote in Hoxton’s history.
It’s that history that inspires the team at Hoxton Gardenware, a youth-led, not-for-profit enterprise producing small-batch terracotta plant pots using traditional studio pottery techniques.
Discover our partnership with Hoxton Gardenware and the pieces in our Spring Summer 2026 collection via the link in bio.
Words by Claudia Baillie.
Photography by Lesley Lau.
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