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| Flowers are popping up everywhere, especially after this amazingly early Spring we are getting in Boston this year! I'll take it! Have a great weekend! |
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| Elva Fields |
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| monogram ring?, yes please. |
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| Olivia is just the cutest. Leopard + Floral = adorable. |
Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts
In bloom
Beautiful Living: Fresh Cut Flowers
More beautiful orange and yellow to brighten your day... and make it a great one!
photos: a new simple something
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Beautiful Bouquets and more Beautiful Bouquets
Follow Your Star
One of my readers asked if Bunny Mellon ever wrote a gardening book. While she hasn't, I can recommend the book The Surprising Life of Constance Spry. Ms. Spry (1886-1960) was a floral designer and business woman at a time when most women weren't working outside the home. She also wrote books not just on flower arranging but also cooking, gardening and entertaining. I'm beginning to think she was the original Martha Stewart. Her big claim to fame came from designing the flowers for the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor whose home in France she also filled with her artful arrangements. Constance Spry created masterpieces of not just fancy flowers like roses but weeds and even kale. I love a good story about a gutsy woman who blazes a new trail. My favorite quote of hers sums things up best, "I want to shout out, "Do what you please, follow your star: be original if you want to be and don't if you don't want to be. Just to be natural and gay and lighthearted and pretty and simple and overflowing and general and boroque, and learn and learn and learn. Open your minds to every form of beauty." Amen sister!
A mass of lilacs, 1951
Constance Spry and her needlework
Constance Spry arrangement
Constance Spry and a reporter, 1951
June Morning, 1951
Her students at work.
Arrangement of fennel and orange lilies, 1951
More students arranging flowers
White arrangements in the white living room of Syrie Maugham
Rose felecite et perpetue, 1951
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor in front of a Constance Spry arrangement.
Wedding flowers for Lady Alice Montagu Douglas Scott to the Duke of Gloucester, 1935
Wedding flowers for Lady Alice Montagu Douglas Scott to the Duke of Gloucester, 1935
There is also a rose named after Constance Spry which were planted along the 100 yard fence outside of Pixar Studios by Steve Jobs. I think Ms. Spry would definitely approve!
Photos from the Design Museum and Google
Chic in New York: Florisity
Takashimaya was never the same after they moved the floral boutique upstairs. After the store closes this weekend, I'm happy to announce that the floral creative team will be moving downtown to Florisity. Definitely check them out!Florisity
1 West 19th Street
New York, NY 10011
Prada Print Collection
My flower obsession continues with the new Prada Prints Collection! Remember when Carrie exclaimed "Hello Lover" in reference to some shows in a store window on Sex and the City? Well, that's what I thought when I saw this fabulous collection! The floral and print fabrics are from the Prada archives and the silhouettes were inspired from a look from the 1950's. I'm going to have to freeze my credit card in a block of ice because I seriously want to buy one of everything! Darn you Prada!
Flower Power
This spring, I am loving anything flowery, especially glazed chintz floral fabrics. I am also desperately missing American Vogue Living and even more so after flipping through the Spring/Summer 2008 issue and seeing this fabulous floral feature. Has it really been that long since it was last published?! So depressing. So glad that I have my back issues to cheer me up! Hope this flowers bring you some cheer today too!
Photos by Steven Meisel
Shop With Me: Everything's Coming up Roses...
When I walked out of my apartment this morning, I was thrilled to be greeted with mild temperatures and the faint smell of fresh-cut grass. It reminded me of early spring, when most of the landscape is still muddy brown, there's frost on the ground at sunrise, and the very first pink and red flower buds begin to pop open. With that inspiration in mind, I decided to do a little digging to find some pretty, little items that would remind me of that feeling all year long -- delicate, feminine florals, vintage-inspired frocks, pale and shimmering neutrals and of course, roses everwhere.
Image via White Trash Beautiful
Left to right: 1. Kimchi Blue Floral 80s Strapless Dress (Urban Outfitters) 2. Tissue Sparkling Rose Tee (J.Crew) 3. and 4. Cabbage Rose Underpinnings (Anthropologie) 5. Slub Silk Daydream Floral Lorelai Dress (J.Crew) 6. Smith's Minted Rosebud Salve (Anthropologie) 7. 1928 french paperback book (French Blue & Company)
1. Abundant Callas Necklace (Anthropologie) 2. Rose Fight Knuckle Ring (Free People) 3. Tea Rose Necklace (Urban Outfitters) 4. Girl's Night Out Necklace (Bejewelled Bespoke) 5. Iced Rosette Clutch (Anthropologie) 6. and 7. Rosette Necklaces (Flora Bond)
1. The Warbler Embroidered Collage Pillow (La Pomme) 2. Filigree Gocco Print (Flower Press) 3. Moonflower Pillow Cover (MishMosh) 4. Vintage 1960s Flat Top Sheet (The Linen Lavoir) 5. One of a Kind Ceramic Plate (Anthropologie) 6. Garden Party Curtain Tie Back (Urban Outfitters)
1. Image via Wedding Whims 2. From O'Keeffe Necklace (Anthropologie) 3. Allamanda Necklace (Anthropologie) 4. Mute Blue Rosette Ring (Brydferth) 5. Olivia Flower Bib Necklace (Bebecha)
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