FLORA LUX

08/19/2024

SUMMER IX is now live at the link in bio.

Full moon seasonal playlist refresh with nearly 4 hours of lively and leisurely sounds to luxuriate to.

Beautiful music from and soooo many more! 💫

Enjoy!

x

Dara

08/19/2024

SUMMER IX is LIVE BAYBEEEEE!

Fresh new list of special tunes is up at the link in bio for you. 💫

Music from and sooo much more! ✨

Nearly 4 hours of leisurely and lively summer sounds await you.

x

Dara

08/18/2024

✨ NEW VIDEO✨ Creating a Flower Arrangement for Laufey. 💕

Laufey is a magical vocalist, cellist, and real-life princess for whom I had the pleasure of designing this floral arrangement to congratulate her on her per...

05/01/2024

Insider floral industry pricing strategies for couture bridal bouquet.

In this in-depth video, we'll discuss flower seasonality and pricing, floral industry pricing methods, creating bouquets from reference photos (and whether y...

05/01/2024

✨NEW NEW NEW✨

In today's tutorial, you'll learn how to set up your vase with all the right materials to make this style pavé arrangement. Find the entire flower recipe bel...

04/30/2024

• GREEN THEME • an entire palette inspired by the range of color in just one flower…that flower is this week’s muse; the earth tone striated moss green carnation ‘Paoletto’. From caramel to merlot to snappy fresh green grass, this flower has it all!

1: 𝓒arnation ‘𝓟aoletto’ en masse

2: by , 1993

3: 𝓥iburnum flowers and foliage

4: found on

5: 𝓒arnation 𝓟aoletto (detail)

6:

7: the beloved .pesce lucite vessel

8: Private Gardens of the Petworth House. Image by Ngoc Minh Ngo.

9: A rush of 𝓔xplosion 𝓖rass

10: 50 stems of the inimitable 𝓒arnation 𝓟aoletto

I love love love all one variety flower arrangements. Typically I’ll go for flowers that have lasting power as we head into the warmer months, and trusty carnation does that marvelously. Epic, dense ruffles, long lasting…and sometimes fragrant (usually the original dianthus varieties have a beautiful clove fragrance) - what’s not to love?

Send a bouquet by shopping on my website, link in bio.

x Dara

04/26/2024

⚜️DENDROBIUM NOBLE🗡️ this STUNNING and *fragrant* Dendrobium Noble orchid is in for a limited time.

Need to send someone a special birthday gesture?

A Thank You?

THIS. Is the perfect gift.

Color may vary from the one pictured. They come in white with pink tips, and pink with white tips. Designer selects the best for your occasion.

Order now a the link in bio to have delivered to anywhere in LA as far as Malibu and Orange County.

04/26/2024

CELADON & PLUM

1: Entry to a Police headquarters in Copenhagen, 1940s. From Arresting Interiors - a blog by Michael Hampton. “The entrance to one of the conference rooms with green and cream marble pilasters and surmounted by an impressive and highly stylized scallop shell. The fretwork patterned terrazzo floors are interrupted by thumbprint forms.“

2: The most beautiful ranunculus

3: 1998 couture

4: 𝓒hocolate 𝓒osmos and 𝓡anunculus

5: monochromatic celadon interior by

6: 𝓡anunculus (detail)

7:

8: Camozzo Murano glass from

9: 𝓡anunculus

04/25/2024

𝓜ood 𝓑oard

1: Ash & Ember Eye Soot

2: fall 2020 by

3: interior by

4: 𝓥anda 𝓞rchid

5: bedroom with satin walls, Louis Sue and André Mare, 1927

6: fall 2021

7: landscape by whomst?

8: a rare neo Assyrian rock crystal vase from

9: 𝓥anda 𝓞rchid

10: Tudor fashion 🗡️

04/15/2024

WOODLAND

1: new brown rose

2: boutique New York designed by

3: afternoon tea flyer from 1940s Ambassador Hotel, Hollywood

4: 𝓐ntique 𝓒arnation

5: mahogany reception from archive

6: pistachio chocolate chip cookies by .sweet - made these over the weekend. So so good! It gets the green coloring from matcha.

7: new brown rose

8: 𝓐ntique 𝓒arnatiom

9: face

10: brown rose

04/11/2024

MUTED SPRING

1: Gustav Klimt - A Morning by The Pond, 1899

2: Gold embossed dinner menus by

3: 𝓑urgundy 𝓡anunculus

4: Taupe lip

5: 𝓥elvet 𝓡omance 𝓡ose

04/10/2024

MUTED SPRING

1: 𝓔ye 𝓛ook

2: 𝓒eres, the beguiling 90s mauve rose of your dreams.

Currently overhauling the website, updating options and delivery availability.

𝓒eres can be sent Naked Wrapped, With Botanicals & Accent Flowers Wrapped, or Designed in a Vase in 2, 4, and 6 dozen options.

As the studio gets busier, placing your request a week in advance is ideal, or even further out.

48 hours notice is usually doable, but not always guaranteed.

x 𝓓ara

04/09/2024

𝓢hades 𝓞f 𝓜auve

1: deep mauve interior from

2: 𝓓esigner’s 𝓒hoice, size Medium

3: makeup at fall 2015

4: detail of stunning watercolor burgundy butter ranunculus

5: 𝓓etail of 𝓓esigner’s 𝓒hoice 𝓐rrangement

6: The Pink Star Diamond; fetching the highest price paid for a gem in history in 2017 clocking in at a cool £57.3 million; an “internally flawless fancy vivid” 59.6 carat pink diamond, the largest graded gem ever by The Gemological Institute of America. Mined in Africa by De Beers in 1999, it was originally 193 carats and took two years to cut and polish to perfection. Image and article from

7: 𝓓esigner’s 𝓒hoice 𝓐rrangement featuring Vanda Orchids, Chocolate Chrysanthemum, Antique Hydrangea, Ceres Rose, Antique Carnation, Chocolate ‘Dara’ Queen Anne’s Lace

8: deep mauve interior from

9: chocolate stout cheesecake by

10: makeup at , fall 2013

04/08/2024

One-in-a-million burgundy yellow ranunculus and corresponding internet musings…

1: Sunday study of beguiling ranunculus

2: Art Deco Malibu guest house of Barbara Streisand by

3: The Ranunculus

4: Marvelous mauve closet in Barbara Streisand’s Malibu guest house by

5: Ranunculus detail

6: London home designed by from

7: Mid Imperial Roman glass jar from

8: Ranunculus

9: Malibu guest house of Barbara Streisand from

10: Roman Lotus glass beaker from

03/29/2024

⚜️CREAM⚜️

1: antique carnations
2: gown by
3: madeleines by
4: secret garden rose
5: Parisian interior
6: eye look by
7: embellished shearling coat
8: secret fragrant spray garden rose
9: dreamy apartment of
10: gown by

03/22/2024

Admiring the structural elegance of Fritillaria persica and other things.