March 2011 -Hotel Arrangement 4

Reception:
Receptacle: 3 cylinder vases
Flowers: Gloriosa
Accessories: White Decorative Branches, Transparent-Ice Stones, Glass Vials

Lobby:
Receptacle: cube vase
Flowers: Gloriosa
Accessories: White Decorative Branches, Transparent-Ice Stones, Glass Vials

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March Lesson - Floral Sushi

Today's afternoon I have had 3dr and last lesson on Floral Sushi, we have had 3 times more request as usual. Yesterday 2 lessons took palce, morning and aftrenoon. 13 students have learnd how to make Floral Sushi in Roman Style! They were learning how to make signle flower base, which can be muliplied desired number of times and bigger one, 1/2 of floral foam, which contains 9 primry flowers.

Receptacle: floral foam cubes covered with Aspidistra
Flowers: Tulips, Buttercups, Skimmia
Greens: Aspidistra, Galax, Pittosporum, Steel Grass
Accessories: Decorative Ribbon

March 2011 - Hotel Arrangement 3

Reception:
Receptacle: rectangular flat glass vase, floral foam cubes covered with Aspidistra
Flowers: Cimbidium Eliot Roger & Cimbidium Mini
Greens: Aspidistra, Ruscus, Monstera

Bar:
Receptacle: cylinder vase
Flowers: Cimbidium Eliot Roger & Cimbidium Mini
Greens: Aspidistra

Breakfast Room:
Receptacle: cylinder vase
Flowers: Cimbidium Eliot Roger
Greens: Aspidistra

Rest Rooms:
Receptacle: cube shape vases, floral foam cubes covered with Aspidistra
Flowers: Cimbidium Eliot Roger
Greens: Aspidistra, Aralia

 

Mimosa Tree for Lorenzo Lotto's Exhibition

The Scuderie del Quirinale presents for the very first time here in Rome, an exhibition covering the entire artistic output of Lorenzo Lotto - spectacular and solitary master of the Italian Renaissance. Lotto, leaving the tranquil provinces of the Veneto and Marche, lived briefly in Rome itself, but the city showed at the time that it never really understood his work... read more

L'otto in Italian means eight and for the Lotto's exhibition, for March 8, which is International Women's Day, we've been asked to prepare 2 Mimosa Trees for the Ticket Desk. The mimosa (technically, the Silver Wattle) is the symbol of the celebrations of Women's day in Italy and Russia. That was the very first time for me to work with mimosa. Preparing flower arrangement for The Scuderie del Quirinale was the best gift for my first Italian Women's Day! 

 

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Women's Day in Italy

In Ancient Roman times, the year ended with February and the new year began on March 1, which was also the first day of spring (primo vere). March 8 was one of the first of the springtime festae, a day sacred to Ariadne, whom Thesius had abandoned on the Island of Naxos after promising to marry her if she helped him slay her father's pet Minotaur.  Seduced and abandoned, she was a prototype for ancient Mediterranean womanhood.  

 

Before the Second World War, Women's Day had been celebrated on different days in early March in several Italian cities. In 1945, the Union of Italian Women decided to hold all celebrations and commemorations on March 8. However appropriate it would have been, they didn't have Ariadne in mind. In fact they were memorializing two events outside of Italy: a March 8, 1857, strike by women garment workers in New York, which led to the formation two years later of the first women's union in the United States, and a strike by Russian women calling for "bread and peace" on March 8, 1917 (February 23 on the old Russian calendar but March 8 in the rest of the world).

Authorities don't agree how or why, but the custom started in Italy - some sources say in Rome in 1946 - of men giving their wives, mothers, daughters, and other women friends sprigs of bright yellow Mimosa flowers on March 8. Women have since also started to give Mimosa to each other. The flowers are intended as a sign of respect for the women and also an expression of solidarity with the women in their support for oppressed women worldwide. Other yellow flowers also carry the sentiment, if you Mimosa is out of reach.

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Easter Lesson - Proposal

Today I have prepared a sample Ester Flower Arrangement for the Monothematic Lesson which will take place in April, just before Easter Holiday. A little garden is placed in the classic rectangular basket, the fance is made of Strelizia's stem. To Tulip-Fresia-Viburnum base I have added some small artificial eggs and yellow feathers.

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March 2011 - Hotel Arrangement 2

Reception:
Receptacle: 3 rectangular vases, floral foam cubes covered with Aspidistra Leaves
Flowers: Iris
Greens: Aspidistra, Ruscus
Accessories: Salix

Lobby:
Receptacle: 1 rectangular vase, floral foam cubes covered with Aspidistra Leaves
Flowers: Iris
Greens: Aspidistra, Ruscus

Accessories: Salix

Dry-Stabilized-Artificial in Calyx Krater

Materials:
Stalibized Hortensia, Curly Moss,
Dry Eucaliptus, Dry Lemons, Dry Mehogany Slices
Artificial Apples, Lemons and Ballonplants

March 2011 - Hotel Arrangement

This week I have prepared very simple arrangement for the hotel: Buch of fresh Irises in glass cubes filled with water and transparent stones, making that cold-ice effect.