Rooted in Nature.
Built for Peace

Preserved at peak beauty. No watering required.

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More than just a plant in a planter

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Woodland Relic Centerpiece on a walnut console, ferns and preserved fungi catching afternoon light

Why it calms you

A room that stops fighting you

A San Diego law firm put one of our pieces in the room where they handle their hardest litigation. An employee later told us that people in the middle of those meetings would end up staring at it — and you could watch the tension leave their faces.

That's the job. Not decoration that happens to be green.

Climate pledge

0.5% of every sale funds carbon removal

Every piece I send out contributes to permanent carbon removal through Stripe Climate — funding the technologies that pull carbon back out of the air. Real nature, cared for both ways.

As unique as nature

Your art should be as unique as nature itself

Every piece starts from one unrepeatable natural element — a grapewood branch, a manzanita limb — and gets shaped by hand around whatever that branch already wants to do. There's no blueprint and no second copy.

“Nothing will ever be just like this.”

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Forest Table Sculpture — a long grapewood branch layered with preserved ferns and moss

From the studio

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Meet the maker

Hi, I'm Esther

I build these in my studio, usually with my kids underfoot helping with the glue gun and the bark. I'm not interested in a polished, transactional version of this business — I'd rather have raw, unfiltered relationships with the people I make for. The more I mess up, the better I learn.

Meet the maker
Esther, founder of Rooted in Peace, smiling in her studio

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Gifts that keep on giving, quietly

New home, sympathy, an anniversary — something living (or something that never needs watering) says it better than a card.

In their words

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People going through difficult litigation would be staring at your piece, your centerpiece… and it's like this calming piece comes over the face.
Employee, San Diego law firmCommissioned centerpiece for a litigation room

Case study · San Diego law firm

“People going through difficult litigation would be staring at your piece, your centerpiece… and it's like this calming piece comes over the face.”

An employee at the firm, describing what happened in the room after the install.

Photos from the install

Long concrete trough centerpiece filled with preserved moss mounds and black river stones on a walnut counterConcrete trough of preserved moss mounds and black stones on a boardroom table with an ocean viewThree concrete moss troughs running down a long law firm boardroom table

New pieces, as they're finished

One-of-a-kind means when it's gone, it's gone. A short note when something new comes out of the studio — nothing else.

  • One of a kind
  • Zero maintenance
  • Sustainably sourced