Author: Jill Brooke
Richard Quinn’s Fashion Designs Have Wide Swath Of Fans
By Jill Brooke Known for his bold, lively designs and love of florals, Richard Quinn sparked headlines around the world when none other than Queen Elizabeth II went to his fashion show last year. The date: February 20, 2018. It was for his autumn/winter show at London Fashion Week and marked the first time that …
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See These Incredible Flower Arrangements for the Funeral Bier
Flowers decorate an Eastern Orthodox tomb in Cyprus. Photo credit Getty Images By Linda Lee Because it takes place inside an Orthodox church, most people don’t know about the custom of decorating a “tomb” with flowers for Orthodox Good Friday, April 26. The tomb holds a symbolic representation of Christ after the crucifixion. Photo credit: …
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Alfombras, Making the Flower Carpets of Holy Week
For Easter, devout Latin American Catholics make flower carpets, “alfombras,” for a parade leading to Good Friday services. The flower carpets, sometimes made of sand or sawdust, are destroyed by the feet of the penitents, who carry large wooden floats on their shoulders.
Decorative Artist Joy de Rohan Chabot’s Floral Chairs Charm
Photo Credit: Joy de Rohan Chabot Decorative artist Joy de Rohan Chabot’s chairs and objects d’art were described by the New York Times as creating a fairy tale world infused with a joie de vivre. That does sum up her appeal. Her bustling Paris studio is filled with antiquities, one-of-a-kind plates and glasses, enchanting vases …
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Rebuild Notre Dame With Flowers, Not Gargoyles
The gargoyles on Notre Dame seem the essence of medieval architecture, the soul of the building. Any reconstruction should of course reproduce them. Correct? Non! Those gargoyles, or stryge, more correctly witches, sometimes snarling waterspouts, hulking birds with heavy shoulders – were added by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, an architect who revised a vandalized and badly run …
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Paris Cocktails by Author Doni Belau Toasts Tradition
As author and Francophile Doni Belau writes in her informative book “Paris Cocktails,” when Prohibition began in the U.S. in 1919, some of the country’s great bartenders hopped a ship to Europe and became some of the Jazz Era’s most famous mixologists. They joined the French who already had a reverence for the science of …
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Knock Out Roses: What Are They Good For? Not Your Garden!
By Linda Lee The Knock Out Rose can be found in parking lots, along highway median strips and is highly regarded as a “landscape plant.” That’s another way of saying “seen at a distance.” Do not listen to the guy at the nursery who leads you over to the tubs of Knock Out roses and …
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North Carolina’s Art in Bloom Showcased Floral Artists
Cheryl Austin Event Florals – Inspiration: Flight research #5, Rosemary Laing – Used shades of blue hydrangea Rarely will we write about something that is after the event – but the North Carolina Museum of Art show in April is worth revisiting. Like great art, the floral arrangements were such visual splendors that it becomes …
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