FLOWERS for LOVE + RESISTANCE for VALENTINE'S DAY

Happy Valentine's Day dear everyones! 

Yes, it has been a while and I know we need to do some serious catching up! We will get to that. However, it is with great pleasure that I present to you :

WILDFLOWERS FOR RESISTANCE !

wild-crafted bouquets + blooming branches available for pick-up at:

COOKBOOK Market 

1549 Echo Park Blvd.

8am - 8pm

- OR -

DUNE (in Atwater)

3143 Glendale Blvd.

10am - 9pm

ALL PROCEEDS will go to support the tribes at Standing Rock. In solidarity we stand together strongly. These flowers were hand-picked by me while on nature walks, purchased from farm stands from two farmer's markets that confirmed they were pesticide-free, and the blooming branches I got from my (only) trusted flower vendor at the Flower Mart. These flowers have integrity, vibrations, love, strength and most of all the power to send a message of action over words. Win-win! 

From my heart to yours, Happy Valentine's Day!

xx Lili

& OTHER STORIES

I got to pull my dream team together this past week to work on a floral installation for the window to the much anticipated LA store opening of & Other Stories. We had a heat wave this week with it getting as hot as 90 degrees so there were challenges that I had to find creative solutions for to keep this living installation hydrated and green! I have to say, we nailed it. The windows look absolutely beautiful. It really does pull you to the store. 

Thank you so kindly Alana, Christopher + Kirsten for bringing the floral magic. You are my dream team. And thank you & Other Stories for this opportunity! XO

MOVE !

What informs your work? Movement and line has been heavily observed on my end.

FLOWERS THRU MOVEMENT

I was honored to get to hold a workshop at my dear friend Hank's shop in Silver Lake,  The Plant Provocateur a few weekends back. We transformed his beautiful plant shop into a flower studio that looked like it could have been in an alleyway in Kyoto! The inspiration for the class was movement and how movement can inform our arrangements. I wanted to see energized flower creations with motion and energy - a deliberate break from the standard triangular arrangements that look like they are from a dutch still life (which I too find extremely beautiful of course).  I wanted students to explore something deeper for their inspirations - I wanted them to fish deep within themselves to see what they could pull out and run with that as their guides as opposed to a notion of what their arrangements should look like. Lo and behold I was astonished: such extremely unique and dynamic floral arrangements were indeed manifested! It was such a success and the students joy with their creations was just as infectious. 

I am always pleasantly delighted at the beginning of a class when students are timid and unsure of what they are capable of creating, and being able to lead them to a confident floral designer by the end of a class with just a few simple instructions and more than anything else, encouragement for them to keep on pushing and going with their vision(s). That is the gift for me. That is my return.

To my awesome students: thank you for showing up and keeping me inspired.

NEW TUMBLR / ATELIERTIGERSTOLILIES

recent collage work / pressed flowers + archival paper / 2016

I have a new tumblr and I am very excited to present it to you:

ATELIERTIGERSTOLILIES

for all things wild, but mostly flowers 

xx

NEKO DECO for MADAME FIGARO, JAPON / OUTTAKES

All photos by Yoshihiro Makino

I am delighted to get to share these photos with you! A while back photographer Yoshihiro Makino had asked me if I wouldn't mind sharing two of my great loves with Madame Figaro Japon: cats + flowers (!) for a story they were running called Neko Deco. I (of course) was thrilled with the opportunity which lead to a  really nice afternoon of talking shop flower-wise and herding my coy cats. These are some of the outtakes. I know that all four of my little fury darlings feel quite honored and somehow a head above the other outdoor cats after having had such an elaborate feature! Thank you so kindly Yoshi! 

Click to see Neko Deco I and Neko Deco II

Thank you Madame Figaro Japon for the love xx

Flowers for Loss and Sorrow / TIGERS to LILIES

TIGERS to LILIES / 2013

(recent work)

A few shots from an installation we did over at En Soie. We created a curtain out of pressed petals to unveil their SS15 collection! It was so much fun and a lot of work, but extremely gratifying to create such a massive piece with our hands. It felt substantial too. Even though our materials were extremely light, it had a really wonderful weight to it. 

I have to say it was nice getting to put some of my pressed petals to good use too. Have I mentioned that I have books and books filled with so many pressed petals in between them. Patient little jewels  waiting to be seen...