Rattan Plant Stand Round – Boho Planter – Rattan Plant Basket – Natural Flower Stand for Pots up to Ø20 cm AKARA
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Made from sturdy and sustainable rattan, Akara provides a stable base for your plants while protecting the ground from scratches. It is ideal for flower pots with a diameter of up to 20 cm and ensures that they stand securely and cannot tip over. Thanks to its neutral colours and minimalist design, it is just as versatile as a normal rattan plant basket. It blends harmoniously into many living styles.
Whether in the living room, bedroom or on the balcony – Akara gives your home a natural elegance and also improves the indoor climate by raising plants to a slightly higher position, allowing them to exert their air-purifying effect even better.
Akara is elaborately handcrafted on the island of Java in Indonesia. We attach great importance to fair payment and good working conditions. The use of high-quality natural materials and production by experienced craftspeople emphasise the sustainability and quality of this product. Therefore, you can be sure that you are getting a long-lasting and environmentally friendly accessory for your home.
Also note our other listings – in our shop you will find many different baskets, home accessories and bags made from sustainable materials under fair production conditions.
➤ Our Akara plant stand at a glance
• Decorative: With the natural material rattan and the curved shapes, it creates a pleasant, warm boho atmosphere in your home or garden
• By creatively presenting your houseplants with Akara, you can show your love of nature even better despite the hustle and bustle of city life
• Stable and high-quality: natural rattan is an extremely stable, durable and sustainable material
• Improves the indoor climate: thanks to the slightly elevated position, plants can exert their air-purifying effect even better
• Practical: Protects pots up to 20 cm in diameter from falling over and the floor from scratches
• 100% handmade and fair trade
• Lightning-fast shipping, the packaging is plastic-free
➤ Dimensions & weight:
Diameter x height: 28x50 cm
Weight: 1.25 kg
Our products are artfully crafted individual pieces. They may vary slightly in size, color and shape due to the production by hand and natural variations in materials.
➤ Shipping:
• We are shipping with DHL from our warehouse in Germany, the packaging is plastic-free
• The delivery time within the EU is only 2 to 5 working days
➤ The sustainable main material: rattan
This rapidly renewable raw material is obtained from rattan palms, which grow as climbing plants in the tropical forests of Indonesia. Their branches and trunks are harvested by hand without damaging the surrounding trees and then dried. The inside of the branches and trunks is used in various thicknesses for furniture, baskets or lamps, while the bark is cut into strips and used for filigree wickerwork, such as the well-known ‘Viennese weave’. As rattan palms need an intact ecosystem to grow, rattan processing is an incentive for the local population to preserve healthy, natural forests.
➤ Our production partners: Selected according to fair trade criteria
When selecting our local production partners, we emphasise fair payment, safe working conditions and reasonable working hours. We work exclusively with small family businesses that have a maximum of 20 to 30 employees. They are all experienced craftspeople of legal age. Older people in particular, who can no longer work in agriculture, benefit from jobs in handicrafts, allowing them to use the skills they have learnt from an early age to earn money and pass on traditional production methods to the younger generation. They have often told us how happy they are to be able to create something meaningful with this work and earn a good living. As all work steps are carried out by hand, the production process generates hardly any greenhouse gas emissions. We ensure all of this through regular on-site visits and ongoing personal contact with the companies.
➤ The production process: from raw material to finished plant stand
For our plant stands, the dried rattan fibres are cut to the right length by experienced craftsmen at our production partners in the Indonesian province of West Java and then bent using heat to give them the desired shape: Particularly thick rattan fibres form the basic structure of Akara, and the plant stand is then held together by nails and the bark of the rattan palm cut into strips, which is wrapped around the thicker fibres. In total, it takes just under three hours to make a plant stand.
| Height | 50 cm |
| Diameter | 28 cm |
| Weight | 1260g |
| Material | Rotan |
| Color | Beige |
| Values | Handmade, Social Good, Natural Resources, Vegan, Cruelty Free, Non Toxic |
| Made in | Indonesia |
| Brand location | Germany |
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The name “Soeji” (pronounced soo-ji) comes from Javanese and means something like “pure” or “unadulterated” - exactly what our products are all about. When we came across several small wickerwork workshops during a stay in one of the founder's home country Indonesia in the summer of 2019, we quickly recognized the potential of these great products. We got into conversation with the owners and it became clear that they were interested in realizing our designs. Since then we have designed and produced many great products based on traditional patterns, put together a small but beautiful range of products and finally made them available to a larger audience in our online shop in June 2020. We only use natural, environmentally friendly materials (which otherwise would often have ended up in the trash since they are considered waste products or weeds) and the work of experienced Indonesian artisans for our home and fashion accessories. Every sale of our hand crafted products thus sustainably supports rural communities to make a living. Especially elderly people, who can no longer work in agriculture, benefit greatly from the jobs that these workshops create. Thanks to our close cooperation with the local small producers without intermediaries and long communication channels, we can guarantee very good working conditions and wages and precisely track the origin of the raw materials. A pleasant side effect for you are fair prices, regarding which you can be sure that a lot of it will get through to the producers and little to international corporations. You can find more information about us, our principles and the production processes on our website www.soeji.de.
