Welcome to Flower Thoughts September 2023, World Cup Edition.
Join me for some of the designs and behind the scenes angles from the Interflora World Cup 2023, Manchester, UK.
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To really feel a forest canopy, we must use different senses and often the most useful one is the sense of imagination.
– Joan Maloof
Competitors were asked to create a design that brought the rainforest to Manchester, in the form of a forest canopy, fully suspended, with fresh flower or plant material comprising at least two thirds of the material.
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A Forest Canopy, Nicolaus Peters, Germany |
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A Forest Canopy, Hyung Hak Kim (Leo Kim), Republic of Korea |
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A Forest Canopy, Emanuela Araújo, Portugal |
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A Forest Canopy, Patricia Aguín, Spain |
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A Forest Canopy, Thanh Tran, Vietnam |
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Watery Wonders - A Table for Two
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Dance with the waves, move with the sea, let the rhythm of the water set your soul free.
– Christy Ann Martine
The competitors were asked to design a table for two, using this quote by Christy Ann Martine as their inspiration.
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Watery Wonders, Hyung Hak Kim (Leo Kim), Republic of Korea |
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Watery Wonders, Elisabeth (Lisa) Pålsson, Norway |
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Watery Wonders, Patricia Aguín, Spain |
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A Heavenly Wedding - Design
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Clouds are the imagination of the sky.
- Terri Guillemets
The competitors were asked to imagine a wedding taking place above the clouds, up in the sky, and imagine what kinds of floral delights the eye might behold.
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A Heavenly Wedding, Patricia Aguín, Italy |
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A Heavenly Wedding, Melissa Smedes, Netherlands |
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A Heavenly Wedding, Elisabeth (Lisa) Pålsson, Norway |
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A Heavenly Wedding, Elizabeth Newcombe, United Kingdon |
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We chose for our September Design of the Month the Bridal Design created by Elisabeth (Lisa) Pålsson of Norway, which, ingeneously, uses tiny magnets to attach each and every individual flower to the structure.
The structure was a kind of tree with a trunk and branches made of wound wire, to which the magnets on the flowers could hold.
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A Heavenly Wedding, Elisabeth (Lisa) Pålsson, Norway
Lisa holds the design, showing a view of the top.
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Thank you for reading - and enjoying some of the extraordinary work created at the Interflora World Cup 2023, Manchester, UK.
We have a good selection of content in the works for next month's Flower Thoughts, which we're looking forward to sharing with you.
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A Heavenly Wedding, Elisabeth (Lisa) Pålsson, Norway
Here, Lisa holds the design, revealing the wound wire "tree" structure to which all the flowers are magnetically attached.
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