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 I came upon these neat looking magnetic leaves at swissmiss. These uber-cool magnetic leaves, designed by Richard Hutton for the innovative European office furniture company Gispen, originally adorned the ceiling for the offices of a museum in Rotterdamn.

Hutton used hundreds of them on the office ceilings and they could be used to shrub up your office, kitchen or garage, provided you have exposed metal surfaces.

Gispen has taken Hutten’s design into production in the certainty that these magnetic leaves can add a lot of fun and function to life.

“It couldn’t get much simpler: a plastic leaf with a

strong magnet in the stem. Throw it against something

made of steel or metal, and the leaf sticks to it. Take a

couple of hundred leaves, place them or throw them

all against a metal modular ceiling and you have a

wonderful leaf roof above your head, one that’s functional

too. Because all those leaves absorb sound and

thus improve the acoustics in the room.”

At the Van Gogh Museum and the Rijksmuseum, they are flying off the museum shop shelves at $2.50 each. For the crafty / DIY’ers amongst us, I think you could make these pretty cheaply with some fabric leaves and some craft magnets.

I can see a bunch of these on a magnetic chalk board wall - a mock forest in your office bringing some of the outdoors inside!