Paper flowers! This high style, mid-summer wedding was a dream, collaborating with a London based landscape architect and film composer in love! Each flower was hand painted and hung separately so every individual petal and paint stroke was illuminated as they spun over the dance floor, a revelry powered mobile …
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We were lucky to be working inside of a tree museum this past weekend at The Morton Arboretum. This incredibly sweet couple of love-bird, low-key architects wanted decor with clean lines and organic loveliness for their wedding; so we served up tons of fragrant tuberose, plus lace-cap hydrangea and garden roses in sleek kiri wood boxes …
Sugar sweet wedding flowers last weekend- cotton candy poufs of pink “Verana” hydrangea and late season Sarah Bernhardt peonies. Heres a big tip I just confirmed, Peony’s adore flower food, they hog it down like Y.N. Rich kids snacking on Hot Cheetos and Takis. These quadrupled in size for us in just 3 days and are …
We found this volunteer cherry tree in the studio’s backyard last week and thought we’d share this patriotic tableau with you! Have a gorgeous holiday filled with deliciousness, folly and ease!!
This couple knew their affections were serious when they discovered eachother’s apartments to be full of much beloved old books… and thus a midsummer night’s dream wedding began to unfold. On the summer equinox they were wed and celebrated at the city’s most stunning room devoted to learning, Cathedral Hall at The University Club. ” …
I’ve been using hyacinth in every arrangement these days, so sad to see it go out of season. It’s such a beautiful word, hyacinth, I wish I had the guts to name a child or a cat after it. I still love monochromatic arrangements because you get to dig so deep into one color… this …
Our flowers have been reveling in this cool, mysterious spring. Festiva Maxima peonies, Maiden Hair fern, Hosta (night pruned) and hyacinth were all in happy attendance for this weekend’s dreamy, back yard wedding.
The most powerful fairy, the Lilac Fairy, (Russian prima ballerina Marie Petipa pictured below), arrives with her entourage at Sleeping Beauty’s grand christening, but before she can bestow her gift, the palace grows dark. With a clap of thunder, the evil fairy Carabosse arrives… and just like that, anemone season is over!
For this Spanish themed dinner party we used lacy Spanish moss in a mad heap of branches, set off by Cherry Love and Piano garden roses in mercury glass. We like these deep reds and teal moss together with taper candles offering flattering firelight and some old world style, no?
This is what our summer is going to look like… all bits of baby’s breath, pink champagne, wildflowers and diaphanous clouds of sweetness and light!