Between the gardens and beaches of Long Island's fabled North Shore and the streets of New York City, Ben's Garden is a detail-obsessed home of artisan old-world craftsmanship, antique ephemera gathered across Europe, and beautiful things made by hand in our own New York studios.
Ben's Garden is a New York lifestyle brand founded by Benjamin Busko, an artist, designer, and entrepreneur. The collection is designed in our New York studios and found in our lifestyle boutiques in SoHo and on the North Shore of Long Island. It is also carried by Anthropologie, Nordstrom, Barnes & Noble, and Paper Source, and by more than 600 museum shops, independent boutiques, and galleries around the world.
Every piece begins in Ben's hands: a painting, a photograph, a drawing, a design.
Our Story, Since 1992
Ben grew up in Setauket, on Long Island's North Shore. At eight he pressed the flowers he grew into notecards and sold them, and within two years Smith & Hawken and the New York Botanical Garden were ordering, with his friends at work in his parents' carriage house. As a teenager he wrote, photographed, and printed his own magazine, Ben's Garden Quarterly, and Anthropologie soon became his first major account.
He opened his first store in Oyster Bay, then a second in Huntington, with an indoor conservatory and the first living green wall on Long Island. Television followed, on The Martha Stewart Show, NBC's Today, and CNBC's The Profit, along with Nordstrom and Neiman Marcus, a production studio on the Brooklyn waterfront, and boutiques in SoHo and Stony Brook. Through all of it, the garden stayed the source: of the name, the eye, and the patience.
The Founder
Ben started his business at eight years old, selling notecards made from flowers he grew himself. More than three decades later, he still designs everything that carries his name.
When it came time for formal education, he couldn't choose between his two passions, so he chose both: a double major in fine art and business at NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study, with studies at Tisch and Stern. And he never stopped gardening. He is a Master Gardener through Cornell University.
Painting, photography, and design are his disciplines. His work has been celebrated by Vogue, O, The Oprah Magazine, Architectural Digest, and The Martha Stewart Show.
The Experience
For more than three decades, Ben has designed every collection that carries his name. He has built four boutiques and two production studios, grown a wholesale business carried by Anthropologie, Nordstrom, and Neiman Marcus, and created bespoke commissions for clients including Hershey and the MTA.
He has published his own magazine, written a column on the home, taught on The Martha Stewart Show, and appeared on NBC's Today and CNBC's The Profit. Through all of it, he has kept painting, photographing, and gardening, because each one feeds the others.
The Collection
Every piece begins as one of Ben's paintings, photographs, or finds from the antique markets of Europe, and is finished by hand in our New York studios, one at a time. A paperweight with the words a friend needed to hear. A tray that turns a wedding invitation into an heirloom. A table set so beautifully your guests forget their phones. These are the things people keep for a lifetime, and the gifts they remember who gave.
The Ben's Garden Boutiques
A Ben's Garden boutique is designed the way Ben designs a room: as one complete experience. The scent is faintly green, like a garden after rain. A playlist sets the mood. The light falls across glass and paper the way it would in a home. The shelves are merchandised by color, red to purple, the way a rainbow falls, and the windows are dressed to stop people on the sidewalk.
Tabletop, artwork, stationery, gifts, and unique furniture sit together as they would in a well-loved home, so you see how a room comes together, not just what's for sale. Home Accents Today named Ben's Garden among its Retail Stars.
On Grand Street, among the cast-iron buildings of SoHo, our New York City boutique brings the whole world of Ben's Garden downtown.
Our flagship on Main Street in Stony Brook Village, facing the harbor, half a mile from the garden that gave Ben's Garden its name.
Home to our indoor conservatory and Long Island's first living green wall for nineteen years.
Where it all began: Ben's first store, on the Gold Coast of Long Island's North Shore.
The Ben's Garden Artist Atelier Studios
Every piece begins with Ben's paintings, photographs, and designs, and with the vintage illustrations and antique ephemera he collects at antique shows and shops across Europe. Each is brought to life by the artisans in our studios in Brooklyn and at Ivy Hill on Long Island. Everything is done with intention.
Our studios are working artist ateliers, and they are made to gather in. Ben and our team regularly host classes, lectures, and special events in these expansive spaces, for garden clubs, groups, and private gatherings. The studios are not open for walk-ins, so every visit is arranged in advance.
What We Believe
What began as Ben's instinct to understand the world became the center of everything we do.
Meet Ben began on Instagram: a photograph of Ben and the small beliefs he lives by, from tie clips to thank-you notes. People loved them, and they became the way we explain who we are. Here are a few more.
That is why Ben's Garden exists: a home to celebrate meaning.
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It began as a series of Instagram posts that people loved: a photograph, and a few lines on how Ben lives, works, and entertains. Leave your email to be first in line when pre-orders open.
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You can always reach Ben directly at ben@bensgarden.com.
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