BY COLIN MIXSON
Talk about high design!
Horticulturists with a hankering
for harvesting weed
can do so from the comfort
of their own living rooms —
and not their dank garages —
thanks to a local craftsman,
who churns out growing cabinets
at a Boerum Hill workshop
that he said are tailor
made for swanky stoners.
“I’m trying to cater to a
niche market of luxury cannabis
consumers and growers,”
said woodworker Robert
Pettit. “I wanted to make
something that was beautiful,
really expensive, and highly
functional.”
Pettit sells his luxe weed
cabinets — which he hand
crafts out of walnut and cherry
wood, and equips with socalled
smart lights that can be
controlled from a cellphone —
for a whopping $13,500, claiming
there’s no other gardening
furniture on the market that
looks as good as it grows.
“There are a lot of different
growing kits, tents, cabinets,
and mass produced units, but
they’re not something I would
ever display in my home,” he
said.
The craftsman, who lives in
Ditmas Park, began building
his fancy-pants pot cabinets
two years ago, looking to cash
in as pols in states across the
country — including Alaska,
California, Colorado, Maine,
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Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada,
Oregon, Vermont, and
Washington — voted to give
constituents the right to toke.
And after Gov. Cuomo recently
announced a package of
bills that would legalize smoking
the sticky icky in New York
State , Pettit — who makes his
living crafting more traditional,
custom-made furniture
for his bougie clientèle
— hopes it won’t be long until
there’s a local market for his
cannabis cabinet, too.
“Being in New York City,
in an urban area, you don’t
have a lot of extra bedrooms,
garages, or stuff like that,” he
said. “If you’re going to grow
here, it’s going to be grown in
your living room, so it’s gotta
be subtle, it’s gotta look nice,
but it doesn’t have to scream,
‘This is a grow tent.’ ”
Cuomo’s proposed recreational
weed plan, however,
would not allow New Yorkers
to grow at home as it’s currently
written, according to a
rep for drug-law-reform group
the Drug Policy Alliance, Jag
Davies, who said the organization
is pushing Albany lawmakers
to permit home cultivation
as part of the scheme.
But Pettit isn’t just looking
to individual clients to grow
his growing-cabinet sales. The
maker wants to cut a deal with
a larger operation to mass produce
his lush decor, which he
will show off to professional interior
designers and architects,
along with deep-pocketed potential
customers, at a design
show in Manhattan later this
month sponsored by home magazine
Architectural Digest.
Take a gander at Robert
Pettit’s fancy growing cabinets
at the Architectural Digest Design
Show at Piers 92 and 94
(771 12th Ave. near W. 52nd
Street in Manhattan, www.addesignshow.
com). March 22–
23, from 10 am to 6 pm. March
24, from 10 am to 5 pm. $32.
WEED WOOD: Woodworker Robert
Pettit at his Boerum Hill shop,
where he fashions growing cabinets
for swanky stoners.
Photo by Colin Mixson
LIVING-ROOM LAB: When opened, the piece reveals a sophisticated
weed-cultivation system. Leaf and Wood
It’s the best in grow
Craftsman’s fancy furniture cultivates cannabis
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