flower salon / droog : string gardens, maurice scheltens, ...

string garden installation image © designboom

today ends FLOWER SALON/, a show that focuses on holland’s top export commodities – flowers, but also on floral design and related art. it opened the 14th of october and was staged on 10 locations in amsterdam, among them the droog design gallery. designboom visited and reports.

string garden images © designboom

the string garden installation has been created by amsterdam based company fedor. the objective of these installations is to simply bring plants to eye level and its technique refers to ‘kokedama’, a japanese botanical style.  the hanging gardens use string wrapped around a plant bulb or root ball.

string garden watering instructions by elsa drayfarges

a view into the exhibition image © designboom

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‘parts of a tree’ by jos bregman image © designboom

at flower SALON/ droog, you can purchase part of a tree and in a few months time, you will be invited to a picnic with tea and cake, under one of the most prominent trees in holland.

be part of tree mob the global community of tree lovers and join jos bregman in his quest for a better understanding of why trees are so important

individual flower displays by vlinder en vogel image © designboom

individual flower displays complete with labels on canvas tables from vlinder en vogel.

individual flower displays by vlinder en vogel images © designboom

in the foreground fashion pieces, in the background individual flower displays by vlinder en vogel and on the wall display of magazine pages of club donny image © designboom

close-up on fashion, left image ‘girlfriend’ by spijkers & spijkers and monique van heist, right image : ‘EnD’ byeva and delia ‘bob ross’ and ‘exploded view’ by michael kampe images © designboom

‘exploded view’ by michael kampe and studio drift (lonneke gordijn & ralph nauta) installation images © designboom

 LED light with real dandelion seeds by studio drift. studio drift’s dandylight is available at designboom’s shop.

cut outs bouquet by maurice scheltens image courtesy scheltens & abbenes

on show (and for sale) is also photography work by dutch duo scheltens & abbenes. the specialty of still-life photographers and stylists maurice scheltens and liesbeth abbenes is to meticulously arrange objects — in this case cut out photo-pictures of flowers — into configurations that have a strong two-dimensional or graphic character. a laborious process, in which they continuously move things around, painstakingly join pieces together and adjust little details.

cut outs bouquet by maurice scheltens image courtesy scheltens & abbenes

excerpts from club donny journal

club donny is a strictly unedited journal on the personal experience of nature in the urban environment, published bi-annually as a tiny-scale english language magazine, distributed by post editions. concept: samira ben laloua, frank bruggeman and ernst van der hoeven graphic design:  ben laloua / didier pascal.