Most planters are something you walk past. The Badalona is something you reach into. A single, generously proportioned rectangle — roughly a metre long, just over forty centimetres deep and tall — sized exactly for the kind of planting that becomes part of daily life rather than just part of the décor. Big enough to hold a real composition; small enough to live anywhere; tall enough that you don't have to bend down to tend what's inside it. It's the most quietly useful piece in the collection.

It works because the proportions are right at human scale. The 43 cm height meets you at hip level — easier than crouching over a low box, easier than reaching up into something tall. The 92 cm interior length gives you room to actually compose: a row of fresh herbs by a kitchen door, a wash of seasonal flowers along a balcony rail, a tight planting of structural greens and trailing edges that softens the boundary of a terrace. Mounted close to a window, it becomes a window box without the precariousness of one. Set against a wall, it reads as a long, planted bench-line that anchors the space without taking it over.

This is the planter that earns its place in homes where someone actually gardens. Herbs for the kitchen, cut flowers in season, salad greens through summer, structural evergreens through winter — the Badalona keeps all of it within arm's reach, on the right side of the door, in the right kind of light. It's just as comfortable in commercial settings where that lived-in feeling matters: along the front of a café or restaurant terrace, planted with rosemary and lavender that scent the entrance; in a hotel courtyard or rooftop bar where guests notice the planting because it changes with the season; in a private office or showroom where someone has clearly chosen to keep something alive nearby.

Every Badalona is hand-finished in the same automotive-grade composite fiberglass as the rest of the Jay Scotts collection. It endures from −20 °C to +50 °C without cracking or fading, and remains light enough to be repositioned by hand when the seasons or the planting change. An optional matching saucer (69220.S) catches drainage cleanly on indoor floors and balconies — useful for the kind of planting that gets watered often. Available in all 21 standard Jay Scotts finishes, with custom colour matching on request.