Saturday, August 25, 2012

Must-have Monochromatics

I've mentioned Jeff Leatham before...he's an innovative florist with millions of dollars to spend every year on displays for the George V Hotel in Paris. He travels the world to create amazing floral installations or to decorate for Hollywood parties, Celebrity weddings, and he's a staple for rock-n-roll lounges and fashion launches.

His biggest signature is the off-set balancing of bouquets as you can see here. Angles that make the flowers float or even just balanced atop a vase instead of IN it...if you see these kinds of looks, they're happily copying the best floral designer in the world right now. Kudos.

Another of his signature designs is being a minimalist in one aspect or another. He understands the three elements of design so well! Flower type, Color, and Size. Every arrangement is created by choices in these three areas, and most people think that they need large amounts of all three to have their wedding look rich and lush. Jeff proves that SO wrong. By pairing things down to only three, two, or even ONE single flower, you can play with the other elements and still have a gorgeous event. You can bring that single flower togther in all it's color options (roses may have been done to death, but imagine thousands of roses in every color of the rainbow!), or you can make gigantic arrangements of that single bloom and it speaks volumes. You can also choose a wide variety of flowers, but by making them all the same color, you can unify the entire look and create quite a statement...Don't you think it says that you are rich or important when you can get all of your flowers in just the same shade of pink? Jeff rarely ever does anything small, but if you make the other two statements you really don't have to make huge arrangements. Still it says something too when you make a gigantic centerpiece out of the cheapest possible flower.

After doing a wedding in all baby's breath, I smiled really big to see this all white event using only baby's breath, hydrangea, and orchids. Fabulous, as always, Jeff! Monochromatic was never so bold, sexy, and simply stunning!

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