Photography by Anna Rose via Feunde von Freunded except where noted.
Trained as a photographer as well as a florist, Kuhlmann arranges flowers with an eye toward scale and proportion as well as with strong ideas about color.
Kuhlmann began her apprenticeship as a florist at Absolute Flowers in London, where owner Hayley Newsteadt taught her about color and form.
“Back then, I was still grounded within the German flower apprenticeship. For instance, we would have never used tulips and hyacinths during the summer time,” says Kuhlmann.
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“If one breaks those rules that have been pushed inside of you for so many years, something really wonderful happens… fat, full-blown parrot tulips combined with coral-colored peonies, dahlias, scented English garden roses, pink hydrangeas, and geraniums,” says Kuhlmann.
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On the wall in her Berlin flat is a wire hanger turned into sculpture.
Fat black dahlias carry the day.
A dramatic bouquet of peonies.
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Curtains of flowers for Dior’s Fashion Week runway show in 2012.
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