Gift pick No. 4: Meyghan Hill salvaged steel planters

By Craig Nakano

Nov. 5, 2013 5 AM PT

For those looking for gifts with a little urban edge, we take our Handmade Holidays series to the studio of Meyghan Hill in downtown Los Angeles. That’s where Hill welds her Salvaged Steel & Stenciled planters, sold as plain vessels or with personalized graphics.

Each planter measures 12 inches wide, 12 inches deep and 8 inches high. Price: $125.

Hill sells her various designs on her own studio site as well as through the Angelo:Home store downtown. For those who can spend a bit more, check out her Fallon Salvaged Steel Bound bookend, $275, composed of stair-stepped marble sheets wrangled into brackets that Hill welds herself. It’s a nice juxtaposition of the raw and the refined. (See photo in the rail on the left of this page.)

We’re off and running: a unique holiday gift pick every day, through Christmas Eve. Check back Wednesday for more.

ALSO:

Gift pick No. 1: Kat and Roger painted pottery

Gift pick No. 2: Regina Vorgang wool tapestries

Gift pick No. 3: Brian Bosworth ceramics

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Craig Nakano is the assistant managing editor for Entertainment and Arts. He joined The Times as an assistant travel editor, later served as home editor and most recently was the fine arts editor, leading a team whose accolades included a Pulitzer Prize and an Online Journalism Award. A California native, he worked at the Desert Sun of Palm Springs and at the San Francisco Chronicle after graduating from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. He lives in Long Beach with his husband and son.