rakes [FLOWERS and events]
rakes [FLOWERS and events]
contemporary floral styling and events
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Scotts terrace with Christian Louboutin

Scotts terrace with Christian Louboutin

Libby and James’ wedding at The Green Rooms

Libby and James’ wedding at The Green Rooms

Libby and James’ wedding

Libby and James’ wedding

Harvey Nichols Terrace

Harvey Nichols Terrace

Libby and James’ wedding

Libby and James’ wedding

Nest and Iris installation for London Craft week with Pedro Da Costa Felgueiras cork bowl at the Christian Louboutin boutique, Mount street, London

Nest and Iris installation for London Craft week with Pedro Da Costa Felgueiras cork bowl at the Christian Louboutin boutique, Mount street, London

I must have flowers, always, and always.
— Claude Monet
Installation with Parterre perfumes

Installation with Parterre perfumes

Launch of First floor womenswear department Harvey Nichols

Launch of First floor womenswear department Harvey Nichols

Catwalk flowers for Elle UK and Harvey Nichols

Catwalk flowers for Elle UK and Harvey Nichols

Christian Louboutin installation for Scotts Retaurant, Mayfair, London

Christian Louboutin installation for Scotts Retaurant, Mayfair, London

Event for American Express

Event for American Express

 
playing around with a dutch masters theme

playing around with a dutch masters theme

 
Cob gallery exhibition of Casper Serjensen

Cob gallery exhibition of Casper Serjensen

A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in—what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
 
Dinner: Conde Nast Traveller x Christian Louboutin at Maison Assouline

Dinner: Conde Nast Traveller x Christian Louboutin at Maison Assouline

 
She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims..
— Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
 

right: Bespoke arrangement, below: Cob Gallery, below left: Grass, verbena and barley install Mount street, Roland Mouret

 
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Clockwise from top- Roland Mouret Christmas Tree 2019, Christian Louboutin private lunch at Scotts Restaurant, Conde Nast Traveller and Christian Louboutin dinner at Assouline, installation for Roland Mouret, Private wedding hosted at the Liberal Arts Club, Installation for Casper Sejersen at the Cob Gallery, London. Middle image - bespoke bouquet for private customer

 
 
 
 

Bespoke flowers created for Hermès s/s 21

see Vogue

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Various Florals and bespoke commissions

 
 
a mix of berries and beech leaves with rose hips and grevillea, all in autumnal tones

a mix of berries and beech leaves with rose hips and grevillea, all in autumnal tones

seasons of mists and mellow fruitfulness...
 
Winter Bouquet for Hermès

Winter Bouquet for Hermès

 
 
Wedding  bright moving cloud of colour and table arrangements

Wedding bright moving cloud of colour and table arrangements

Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.
— Paul A.M. Dirac
 
 
hanging window installation for Bottletop

hanging window installation for Bottletop

If you love a flower which happens to be on a star, it is sweet at night to gaze at the sky. All the stars are a riot of flowers
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Where we can and the brief allows it, we work with local flowers and dried flowers ( which we reuse ) . We do not use Floral foam in our installations

Cob gallery Installation

Cob gallery Installation

 
 
Green installation at RIBA for Hermes

Green installation at RIBA for Hermes

 
“The earth laughs in flowers.”.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson