We started the evening with a lecture by Judith Farr, set designer for Downton Abbey as well as a number of well-known movies. She talked about the work she does generally, and specifically about working in the castle they use to shoot the TV show, what's shot there and elsewhere, how they get everything set up, continuity between scenes, and so on, with a specific focus on the floral arrangements because of the particular event that was going on. She is quite a gardener herself, and had a few pictures of her own house; they used flowers from her garden for a number of shots, including several of the wedding posies! (British people are awesome. Just FYI.)
From there we wandered the museum to see the works of art in bloom, which is exactly what they were - and quite impressive! Floral designers took inspiration from a work in the museum and created a floral piece which mirrored or interpreted it. The floral pieces were placed in the galleries close to the originals, which made it easy to see where the design came from.
One of my favorites, though I don't think it won any awards was inspired by Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion. Want to see the works yourself? Put it on the calendar for next year.
Wow! This sounds amazing. Wish I could have been there.
ReplyDeleteIt was really cool. Unfortunately both our phone batteries died and I didn't have the foresight to take a real camera, so I have no pictures!
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