Monday, May 10, 2010

Beautiful Blooms.....Paper Sculpture


photo by Bruce Weber ~ styling by Camilla Nickerson

I ran across this exuberant and gorgeous display of paper flowers while looking at the May 2010 online issue of W magazine. Oh my.......what have we here? We have the work of New York artist Eloise Corr Danch and as you will see she has an extraordinary ability to fashion flowers into a visual feast of colour. Makes me want to sharpen up my paper cutting skills.



This may be old hat to New York dwellers who would have seen this fashionable display of paper flowers in the windows of Macy's New York flagship store at Herald Square last spring, but then again maybe not (this could never get old hat) and this exquisite head dress has inspired me in answering my own floral question this season.......what colour of real flowers to plant over the next few weeks? All of them, every single colour I can find. 



The windows for the Macy's 2009 Flower Show featured more than 2,500 handmade paper flowers painstakingly fashioned into swirling garlands and 20 ornate head dresses in all 23 windows. A daytime view.


I would have loved to walk the 23 windows and study this swirling mass of intricate flowers of every colour and shape in this nightime view. What I would love to know......where did all the flowers go when the installation was finished? Wouldn't they make for the most fabulous of gift embellishments? You can visit the website of Eloise Corr Danch and see more of her incredible portfolio and her list of corporate clients such as Antropologie, the Canadian Joe Fresh, Macys, Sony Group Entertainment, RUFFIAN, Saks Fifth Avenue,  Leah C Couture Millinery and many others. Eloise studied fashion illustration in France at The Paris American Academy under Chanel illustrator Davids Rees. This spring she is collaborating with the British decor company Farrow & Ball to create sculptural flowers using their new wallpaper collection ~ The Chelsea.




Top photo photographed by Bruce Weber-styled by Camilla Wickerson/remaining David Zuckerman photos from Eloise Corr Danch website.

37 comments:

  1. this is just amazing. the time it took to do each one! wow! i sure hope they don't just throw away the flowers from the window display when they are done with them. :)

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  2. Hi Sande,
    Catching up with you and all of the interesting posts I missed while away.
    Love these paper flowers. One of the things I miss about not living in NYC any more is all of the gorgeous window displays. These are stunning. Have a great week!
    Catherine

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  3. Can you imagine someone like Eloise growing up and making paper flowers and then turning this passion into something like THIS and having all of those big corporate clients??? Super inspiring as well as beautiful. Oh, the fun things we can learn from the blogging world..... Thank you, Sande!!!
    xx P&H

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  4. I wonder how long it takes to fashion and install all of these. Just prepping them for transport must have been an undertaking itself. The head dresses are nothing short of spectacular.

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  5. Amazing! These are so beautiful. I cannot imagine the work that went into that display. Spectacular!

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  6. This makes me want to take up a new craft...but, I'm very aware at how many ugly flowers would be born along the way to the creation of my first good one! They really are beautiful!

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  7. Oh..she is fabulous...i just went on to her site.Magnifique! Next time, yes, you should ask if you could get some of them ! :-)

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  8. Aren't they beautiful? I thought they were real flowers from the thumbnail on my feed. And yes, they would make lovely gift embellishments.

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  9. What a fairy tale. A true artist who can translate her dreams into reality. Thanks for taking us into her beautiful, colorful and surreal world!

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  10. Oh, they are amazing, beautiful, colourful, just fabulous...Thanks for sharing, Love from London x

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  11. These are incredible. It's amazing how a sheet of paper can transform into such art.

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  12. Sande!
    How fun are these!?!? A present alone! I love the flowers in the hair and the bright array of color is such a cheerful splash!
    Thanks for always showing us the newest and most beautiful! I'm off to her site now.
    XO

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  13. That's just amazing. Real inspiration. I agree with planting every colour flower. It's amazing how most rules can be thrown out in a flower garden.

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  14. How amazing! Paper and glue just don't look like that when I attempt creativity. I can only imagine seeing the window display in person...I'd had to stare, study, and dissect each flower. Thanks for sharing.

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  15. I love this! How amazingly inspiring, Sande. So fun, what a great GIFT even one would be. xo Lidy

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  16. Amazing, amazing, amazing! What a gloriously talented woman! xo

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  17. I just love this, I would have loved to have seen it for real. Totally gorgeous post.

    yes miss you :(
    xoxo

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  18. There is only one word I can utter - WOW!!! What exquisite talent. You always find the best and most beautiful Sande!

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  19. Spectacular! I want to take a cutting class now!

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  20. So exquisite and chic. I adore the floral elements. Reminds one of afternoons along the French Riviera;-)

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  21. Wow! When I see this sort of creativity, it just makes me smile and have such admiration for the person!

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  22. I just wanted to say thank you for this blog. I firmly believe in the "gift wrapped life" and look forward to reading all the beautiful things you share with us.

    I subscribe to a lot of blogs, and yours is one of the few I cannot just blow through. Some blogs, you can just scroll on down until you see something of interest, but if I've missed a couple of days, I have to look at one at a time, and really process the images and such, because every single one is worth it.

    It's like food for the eyes and the heart to be digested slowly.

    Thank you so much for working at bringing us out in the bloggy reading world beauty.

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  23. Gorgeous. Your blog is such a joy.

    (I started my career at WWD and W. What fun that was.)

    xo,
    Tish

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  24. These are paper?! I know I shouldn't be this surprised but I really am! Absolutely breathtaking! Marija

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  25. absolutely gorgeous! there is nothing like handmade paper flowers and how lovely to think of them for gifts -- such a wonderful idea!

    you might like these as well:

    http://citified.blogspot.com/2010/01/work-of-art-paper-flower-wreaths.html

    and:

    http://citified.blogspot.com/2009/02/paper-flower-tiaras.html

    hope you're having a lovely week, sande!
    xo

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  26. These are gorgeous, Sandi! Such talent...I would just stop and stare in front of the windows, admiring...

    Hope you're having a lovely day :)

    xo

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  27. I miss the windows of New York! Thanks for sharing such an exuberant and colorful display, Sande.

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  28. Dear Sande,
    What spectacular window treatments. An art in it's own right. Such colourful, realistic and inspirational creativity. Just think of all the gifts that you could adorn with these pretty beauties!! So clever. XXXX

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  29. Wow... just amazing!!
    I hope Noel sees this post of yours... great minds think alike! Thanks for finding this and sharing the fabulousness with the rest of us :)
    I went on an amazing bike ride yesterday... am loving my new/old bike so so much!!!
    XOXO

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  30. Wow am I in love! What inspiration, thank you for this gorgeous post, and I love your new blog design.
    XOXO
    Karen

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  31. Sande~

    How did I miss this spectular post!? These are gorgeous and you know me, how could I not love these?! Thank you for sharing such art~

    xo Noel

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  32. This is truly amazing. What details and the colors, Oh My!!Breathtaking,Kathysue

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  33. Oh... she is fabulous. A real inspiration.
    Thank you.

    xoxo,
    raru

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  34. That is breathtaking beautiful, I will check her website right now! Thank you for this lovely inspiration!

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