Dried flowers, freestyle ikebana, and deconstructed bouquets—we’re predicting we’ll see more of these floral trends in 2018.
Seulki Kim in Seoul
Based in Seoul, Korea, floral designer Seulki Kim’s 1304 Flower Studio specializes in the unexpected.
Floral designer Seulki Kim offers frequent floral workshops on how to make summer garlands and arrange flowers in vases, as well as 21-session Future Florist master classes focused on more specialized subjects: cloud installations and floral snakes are popular topics.
Photograph courtesy of The Modern House.
Still life with shells; vignette by Yasuyo Harvey.
Yasuyo Harvey in London
We spotted botanical designer Yasuyo Harvey’s work at London Design Festival, where she collaborated with British interiors phenom Faye Toogood to add texture and warmth to an exhibit that showcased Toogood’s spare, sand-casted-aluminum Spade chairs.
We’ve loved floral designer Sophia Moreno-Bunge’s work since back in the day when she worked for NY-based florist Emily Thompson and also created a series of DIY floral posts to teach our readers such skills as how to forage for hibiscus, arrange decaying grapevines, and mix artichokes with poppies to great effect.
Photograph by Beth Coller for Gardenista.
Sophia Moreno-Bunge in LA
Seattle-based floral designer Katherine Anderson’s Marigold and Mint shop is a neighborhood institution in Capitol Hill neighborhood.
Katherine Anderson in Seattle
Photography by Ellie Lillstrom for Gardenista.
Louis-Géraud Beaver in Paris
Iki Yukari in Tokyo
A Wall Display botanical arrangement in a frame is 21,600 (about $191.60 US) at The Little Shop of Flowers.
Photograph courtesy of Rebecca McMackin.
Rebecca McMackin brings home clippings to create seasonal arrangements.
Rebecca McMackin in Brooklyn
The director of horticulture at Brooklyn Bridge Park says the branches shown above are from a Prunus ‘Okame’ tree, the results of one of her husband’s pruning operations, “often carefully timed for beauty, but always without harming the tree.
Mathilde Vial in Paris
Photographer Mimi Giboin discovered Parisian florist Mathilde Vial’s tiny On the Sunny Side shop on the Rue du Vertbois in the 2nd arrondissement this summer.
See more in Chic Techniques: 10 Ideas to Steal from a Parisian Florist. But we’re betting Vial won’t stay under the radar for long: her reputation spreads by word of mouth and many of her customers are longtime loyalists.
Polly Nicholson in Wiltshire
Dried alliums hang from the rafters in a UK stable.
Photograph by Britt Willoughby Dyer.
With an abundance of homegrown flowers and edibles from Sonoma County neighbors at her disposal floral designer Sue Volkel creates such fanciful floral arrangements as small glass vases with clutches of delicate feverfew flowers wild sweet...
Photograph via Shed.
Sue Volkel in Healdsburg, CA
...peas and small strands of ripening strawberries still hanging from the vine for events at Shed a light filled restaurant and housewares emporium housed in a 10 000 square foot glass walled barn in Healdsburg California
: Inspired to create your own floral arrangements?