Bringing honey to the Green City market with our dear friends from the Chicago Honey Co-op last weekend, my hustle went something like this: “Have you tried the summer honey from the Chicago Honey Co-op? We are the most local vendor at the green city market, with hives in Humboldt Park, Back of the Yards and …
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For this corporate dinner we expressed the company’s signature blue with dutch hydrangea, delphinium and nitiya vanda orchids. Throwback 80’s style ferns and naga foliage along with these massive variegated alocacia leaves and fragrant bay laurel were also in effect. Our clever client chose these clear acrylic Versailles chairs and federal blue silk shantung tablecloths …
We were honored to provide flowers for the public debut of a house done by our favorite interior designers, Norra C. Marra Interiors recently. Best of all, it was to raise money for Rush Hospital as part of the Winnetka Cooks’ House Tour. The house is a hushed haven of meta luxe textiles, timeless, almost nonchalant …
We spent a super-fun afternoon decorating the barn at Elawa farm recently. A “gentleman’s farm” built in 1917 for Watson Armour, it is essentially a glamour farm, making it the perfect setting for the winning and ever so glamorous Skirt PR’s 10th anniversary dinner. It is quite the dream scape, boasting a chicken coop …
Love all these dreamy blues and violets- this peak season hydrangea comes in so many hues you can just zone out on all the shading in a single head. Cloisonné dahlias and hybrid delphinium resplendent in electric shades of lilac took over our studio…total luxury!
Some of our most dashing weddings come out of an improbable dream and this weekend’s wedding missive was no exception; gild the Racquet Club (the superlative preppy man-cave) with the bride’s incredibly feminine, delicate, floral style. Pyrocantha berries, lace-cap hydrangea, chinese lanterns, bubble gum pink dahlias and early peach amaryllis were all happily on hand for the …
Suddenly summer is ending, and it’s gone so fast I kind of just want it to be Christmas already! But this past few weeks everyone has come out of their nooks and crannies and wants to have fun- all of us over-worked hyper busy adults are sheeshing and shirking hypnotic, distracted, doldrums of work / …
Paper flowers! This high style, mid-summer wedding was a dream, collaborating with a London based landscape architect and film composer in love! Each flower was hand painted and hung separately so every individual petal and paint stroke was illuminated as they spun over the dance floor, a revelry powered mobile …
We were lucky to be working inside of a tree museum this past weekend at The Morton Arboretum. This incredibly sweet couple of love-bird, low-key architects wanted decor with clean lines and organic loveliness for their wedding; so we served up tons of fragrant tuberose, plus lace-cap hydrangea and garden roses in sleek kiri wood boxes …
Sugar sweet wedding flowers last weekend- cotton candy poufs of pink “Verana” hydrangea and late season Sarah Bernhardt peonies. Heres a big tip I just confirmed, Peony’s adore flower food, they hog it down like Y.N. Rich kids snacking on Hot Cheetos and Takis. These quadrupled in size for us in just 3 days and are …