The Shedd Aquarium called us last minute for flowers and decor for their summer trustee party with Chicago’s best view. As sustainability is such a priority for the museum, we were happy to provide organically grown flowers from our farm to brighten up the space. I was shooting for a summery, Scandinavian vibe with palest …
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Shanghai Terrace
We had the happy luxury of jamming tea tins full of blooms in fluorescent shades on Friday. Exotics like long stemmed Rothschild lilies, Icelandic poppies and parrot tulips mixed well with old-timey bee-balm, begonias and geranium on the Shanghai Terrace at the Pennisula where our spectacular bride greeted guests for cocktails on the eve of …
Now forager
Had the great good luck to spend Thanksgiving in the U.P. at a family friend’s 500 acre farm near the wilds of Escanaba. The landscape was so staggeringly gorgeous I was afraid I’d drive the car off the road. An orchard of frozen apples, a field of dried sunflowers, wild clematis puffs…all miraculous to my …
Anemone Holiday at The Shedd Aquarium
This holiday party was held in a special boardroom at the Shedd Aquarium, which juts out on to the lake and affords the most amazing views. It is replete with an aquarium featuring a dizzying array of sea anemone. These “marine ornamentals” are named for the terrestrial flower just now coming into season. My favorite was …
Chrysanthemum redux
Carnations made a such a big comeback in the early 2000s New York flower scene that Vogue ran almost monthly editorials heralding the news, with gorgeous bowls of them priced at $300 and stars in the field bitterly feuding over who was responsible for their redux Now the show stopping chrysanthemum is officially back. ( Joy! …
L’Huere Bleue
For this corporate dinner we expressed the company’s signature blue with dutch hydrangea, delphinium and nitiya vanda orchids. Throwback 80’s style ferns and naga foliage along with these massive variegated alocacia leaves and fragrant bay laurel were also in effect. Our clever client chose these clear acrylic Versailles chairs and federal blue silk shantung tablecloths …
Cooks’ Tour Flowers
We were honored to provide flowers for the public debut of a house done by our favorite interior designers, Norra C. Marra Interiors recently. Best of all, it was to raise money for Rush Hospital as part of the Winnetka Cooks’ House Tour. The house is a hushed haven of meta luxe textiles, timeless, almost nonchalant …
Ultra Violet
Love all these dreamy blues and violets- this peak season hydrangea comes in so many hues you can just zone out on all the shading in a single head. Cloisonné dahlias and hybrid delphinium resplendent in electric shades of lilac took over our studio…total luxury!
Wedding at The Chicago Racquet Club
Some of our most dashing weddings come out of an improbable dream and this weekend’s wedding missive was no exception; gild the Racquet Club (the superlative preppy man-cave) with the bride’s incredibly feminine, delicate, floral style. Pyrocantha berries, lace-cap hydrangea, chinese lanterns, bubble gum pink dahlias and early peach amaryllis were all happily on hand for the …
make hay!
Suddenly summer is ending, and it’s gone so fast I kind of just want it to be Christmas already! But this past few weeks everyone has come out of their nooks and crannies and wants to have fun- all of us over-worked hyper busy adults are sheeshing and shirking hypnotic, distracted, doldrums of work / …