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I’ve known Paek Sung Hyun for a long time. He’s a man who has had a
varied career: photographer, Korean barbecue restaurant and ping-pong
pub owner, and former member of a well-known K-pop group called Koyote.
Lately he’s added another job to that list: owner of a cactus shop.
His latest project sprang from his hobby of making one-of-a kind pots for various cacti. On a trip to Paris a few months ago, he found an impressive shop that sold only cacti. His mind kept coming back to the plants, and the next thing he knew, he had a collection of a hundred or more. Soon he turned his eye to pots; at first he had been planting the cacti in empty containers, like beloved Campbell’s Soup cans. “A few of my friends [suggested I give] those cactus pots as gifts,” said Paek. This is how he came to open Cycle de l’Eau (literally “water cycle”), which is focused on his own customized pots made from empty bottles, among other things, and surely includes Andy Warhol’s iconic cans.
His latest project sprang from his hobby of making one-of-a kind pots for various cacti. On a trip to Paris a few months ago, he found an impressive shop that sold only cacti. His mind kept coming back to the plants, and the next thing he knew, he had a collection of a hundred or more. Soon he turned his eye to pots; at first he had been planting the cacti in empty containers, like beloved Campbell’s Soup cans. “A few of my friends [suggested I give] those cactus pots as gifts,” said Paek. This is how he came to open Cycle de l’Eau (literally “water cycle”), which is focused on his own customized pots made from empty bottles, among other things, and surely includes Andy Warhol’s iconic cans.
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