Newborn Flower Top in Baby Boy is priced per piece and designed to sit on top of a plinth, most often flanking a hospital suite door or a reception in pairs. The scale is architectural: each piece is built to be read from across a corridor, not held.
Hydrangea does almost all the work. Dozens of heads are massed in every blue available, from powder and duck-egg through to deep cobalt, and packed tightly enough that the colour shifts as you move past. Hydrangea comes from Japan and the Americas and has been prized in European gardens since the eighteenth century; its dense, cloud-like heads are the only flower that can hold a form this size without looking sparse.
The accents cut through in three directions. Large blue anthuriums, tinted and glossy, sit flat against the mass like plates. White anthuriums answer them on the opposite side and lift the whole thing. White chrysanthemum pompons cluster in a tight run down the left, and sprays of yellow oncidium orchid arch out at the top corners, the single warm note in an otherwise cool piece.
Long curtains of cream amaranthus fall from the underside of each form, well down the face of the plinth, softening the join between flowers and stone. Amaranthus, from the Andes and Mesoamerica, has long stood for endurance and unfading love, and its weight is what turns two arrangements into one installation. It suits newborn celebrations, hospital suites and homecoming days.
Like its Baby Girl counterpart, this is built into a hydrated base rather than standing in a vase, and it needs topping up rather than watering; studio staff will show you where on delivery. Hydrangea is the stem to watch and softens first if the base runs dry. The cream amaranthus dries in place and holds indefinitely. Keep the piece out of direct sun and away from an air conditioning vent, and it will hold through a hospital stay and the journey home.