Speaking of beautiful floral design, I came across the Floral Annual book via the work of Rob Plattel, a natural artist and floral designer from the Netherlands. (One of his contemporary floral designs was featured in the Annual.) Below, a series of photographs of a “temporary beauty” installation.
Plattel also designs “hardscape” artistic installations using stone, wood, branches and roots with a very circular theme throughout:
Above, Betula is a large installation using birch wood sections arranged in an enormous circle.
Above and below, two round art installations. Above includes sunflower stems, below is a circle of rhubarb roots surrounded by gold leaf.
Read more about Plattel’s work at his website right here, or, he’s got a new book called Natural Rhythms which looks gorrrrgeous - available right here.
I’ve been pouring through some of the most gorgeous floral design I’ve ever seen - primarily Dutch and Belgian designers, avant garde and just so incredibly lovely. Images from the most recent International Annual of Floral Art, a “yearbook compiling contemporary floral compositions” are included here. (Unfortunately, most of the book’s preview images don’t include credits!) Above, “flying” orchids remind me of a similar installation of “flying” ginkgo leaves created by (amazing) floral artist Daniel Ost.
I’m smitten by this chicken wire hemisphere covered with reeds and grasses and dotted with vibrant orchids. It makes my imagination go wild - I can see these adapted to hang as chandeliers for an event, dot across a perfect lawn for a garden party, or as mini-versions as translucent tabletop centerpieces.
We’ve finally gotten a first taste of spring here in Michigan, so all thoughts seem to navigate to spring flowers, spring colors, the lightness and freshness of spring.
