The Devo is a 4.5-inch porcelain planter with a drainage hole and a matching saucer, named after the band that formed in Akron in 1973 and turned the devolution of humanity into synthesizers and yellow hazmat suits.Porcelain fires harder and denser than standard ceramic, so the Devo keeps a clean edge and shrugs off chips indoors. The center drainage hole keeps water moving instead of pooling at the roots, and the matching saucer keeps the surface beneath dry. At four and a half inches it suits a desk or shelf plant: a trailing pothos, a small calathea, a young fern. The Devo carries more shape than a pot strictly requires, which is the whole point of naming it after a band that built a career on having more shape than the moment strictly asked for.A friend of the studio is convinced we named it after her. We named it after the band. The pot, wisely, declines to take a side.
