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How to Cook a Meal (Almost) Entirely Out of Flowers
Paul Quitoriano How do you create a flower-centric restaurant that doesn’t feel like a bridal shower? If you’re Alessandra and Mario De Benedetti, you ask your good friend, the artist and writer Leanne Shapton, to paint your walls with a geometric watercolor mural,...
Fleurs de Villes’ Floral Couture Launches at 900 North Michigan Shops Featuring Chicago’s Top Luxury Florists
CHICAGO, USA – Stop and smell the roses at Fleurs de Villes ’ Floral Couture Installation 900 North Michigan Shops, as it makes its first appearance in Chicago from September 25-29, 2019. The unique, five-day exhibition is Fleurs de Villes’ signature event,...
Scott County Florist: New owners, same business
James and Penny Paul had a dream of owning their own business. So, as James tells it, when the couple were given an option to purchase Scott County Florist, “it was an opportunity we just couldn’t pass up.” That’s the nutshell version of how the Campbell County couple...
Fleurs de Villes’ Floral Couture Launches at 900 North Michigan Shops Featuring Chicago’s Top Luxury Florists
CHICAGO, USA – Stop and smell the roses at Fleurs de Villes ’ Floral Couture Installation 900 North Michigan Shops, as it makes its first appearance in Chicago from September 25-29, 2019. The unique, five-day exhibition is Fleurs de Villes’ signature event,...
An Artist Famous for His Viral Art is Behind a Striking New Installation in Berlin Made of Flowers and Tombstones
Tim Bengel, FlowerSkullCemetery or Graves Of Our Generation. Photo courtesy of the artist. YouTube sensation Tim Bengel , the young German artist who makes hyper-detailed gold leaf-embellished sand paintings , has stepped forward to identify himself as the creator of...
Silver Lake’s Tokio Florist, for sale for $3.8M, climbing toward landmark status
The Tokio Florist as seen from Hyperion. The shuttered Tokio Florist on Hyperion Avenue—one of the last remaining markers of LA’s “once-abundant flower growing industry”—is a big step closer to becoming a city landmark. In a 4-0 vote, the cultural heritage commission...
Review: ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ by the Potomac Playmakers
Bringing Little Shop of Horrors to life is no small feat for any theatre company, and it’s even more difficult when performing in a very limited space, but the Potomac Playmakers and Director Nic Sigman do just that with verve and obvious love for the production, to...
The healing power of ‘flowers’: How a local florist is helping to memorialize 9/11 victims by celebrating their birth
Story produced by Dave McDonald MANHATTAN, New York — He moves quickly from store to store in the flower district, like a bee in search of pollen. While much of the city is still in bed, Michael Collarone is busy shopping. Michael “Mikey Flowers” Collarone is the...
100 Fascinating Facts About the Huntington in Honor of Its 100th Year
The Huntington Library, rather the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (see #6), recently celebrated 100 years in San Marino. We thought we would mark the centennial with our own list of 100 fascinating facts about this magnificent institution....
