Plants for Daily Life

A style veteran’s new business lets clients make their homes verdant even if they don’t have a speck of natural light.

After years of working in fashion media, retail, and visual merchandising with brands like Burberry and Saint Laurent and magazines like Details, Mirabella, and Elle, Anthony Watts has bundled his experience to create LAYER, a lifestyle company that specializes in what he calls “living décor.” The key, he says, is working with low-maintenance varieties of vegetation and orchids, all presented in elegant planters and vases. READ MORE