APRIL DESIGN EXHIBIT

DESIGN EXHIBIT: Favorite Book

This month’s design exhibit celebrates the connection between literature and floral artistry, with each designer interpreting a favorite book through meaningful botanical choices. These arrangements go beyond aesthetics, using flowers to reflect story, emotion, and theme.

Rosa Johnson drew inspiration from Violeta by Isabel Allende, a novel that follows Violeta del Valle through a century of history, from 1920 to 2020, including two pandemics. The story explores resilience, love, and human rights. Rosa’s design reflects these themes using carnations for strength and admiration, and African violets as a nod to the protagonist’s name and quiet endurance. Limonium “Beltlaard,” known as the “divine flower of the gods,” adds an airy, timeless quality that mirrors a life shaped by challenge and growth.

Littany Hollerbach’s petite arrangement is inspired by Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote. The protagonist, Holly Golightly, experiences the “mean reds,” a deep sense of anxiety, and finds comfort in the calm elegance of Tiffany & Co. Littany’s design captures this contrast with a soft yet structured blend of spray roses, mums, dianthus, and hypericum berries, reflecting both vulnerability and the soothing power of beauty.

Sally Moore’s design is a tribute to a beloved children’s book she read countless times to her grandchildren, about a frog exploring and eating different insects. Her arrangement, featuring daffodils, golden mop cypress, and aucuba, is bright, textured, and playful—capturing the joy of storytelling and the lasting memories created through reading together.
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Together, the exhibit highlights how stories can be transformed into living art, showing the shared power of literature and design to inspire and connect.