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LA's Hip Retailer RON HERMAN Just Introduced Seth Rogen's Stylized Smoking Accessories and I Spotted 3 Favorite Finds at their Pop Up.
Are you high? If you’re in California, where cannabis is legal, it’s likely! The smoking brigade is now fixated on ashtrays and accessories, ranging from vintage to high design. Even for non smokers, the vessel is infiltrating home decor.
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Longstanding LA style staple, Ron Herman, just created a pop up on the second floor of the Melrose shop that’s dedicated to their introduction of Seth Rogen’s HOUSEPLANT accessories for cannabis connoisseurs.
The RH sales expert also pointed out that one could even walk across the street to Sweet Flower to purchase HOUSEPLANT weed. One stop shopping! Here are three standouts in the shop and I’ll take you inside, below.
1. Marble Block Embedded with a Car Lighter
This inventive electric lighter is, by far, my favorite. I happen to be terrified of flames (college kitchen fire ptsd), so this is perfect. Click Rogen’s tweet below to watch his demo (and stay for the coughing at the end). Filed under: weird but useful.
HOUSEPLANT has been around for a minute, an epiphany from Rogen and childhood friends Evan Goldberg and Michael Mohr, to capitalize on their love of home goods and aforementioned weed. Rogen, specifically, is said to have racked up a collection of over 600 pottery pieces and actually throws clay to make his own ashtrays and ceramics, covered with psychedelic colorways and what he’s coined as “gloopy glazes.”
In the video below, the actor establishes himself as someone who smokes weed all day every day, adding that he likes having nice things around.
He suggests the brand’s pieces are for everyone by adding, “If you don’t smoke weed, your friends will.”
2. Houseplant Houseparty Double LP
I was curious about the double vinyl below, especially since the songs were curated by Rogen and Goldberg, and was hoping to peek a song list. I can confirm that the songs are not printed on the album and they’re keeping it undercover. According to the shop, this LP is a limited edition, and the first and only pressing.
3. A Block Table Lighter Design, Touched by Beyonce
In the Architectural Digest video at the end of the story, Rogen shows off HOUSEPLANT headquarters and says that Beyonce took a photo with the lighter below. This somehow makes it newsworthy as my third favorite find. If it’s not obvious, the lighter closes like a block, for a high tech look. (To note if you’re not an Angeleno, I’d bet that half of LA’s apartment dwellers burn these Palo Santo sticks.)
Rogen shows off more pieces and demos their intended purposes in the intel packed Architectural Digest video below.
I’ll leave a few more pieces below for the curious types, but I stumbled onto the best easter egg, below, I was leaving.
On the backside of the pop up wall, there’s an iconic Ed Ruscha 1966 photo collection titled, “Every Building on the Sunset Strip.”
Go for the novelty and lean in for the history lesson.
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