Solstice is the warmest piece in the collection and the most straightforwardly happy. Sunflowers hold the top line, yellow roses and chrysanthemums fill the centre, craspedia drums float above on bare stems, and a cream phalaenopsis orchid arches out at the front. Plumes of gold-dyed pampas fan across the back and give the whole thing its glow.
The sunflower is not one flower but hundreds. Each head is a composite of tiny individual florets arranged in interlocking spirals, and those spirals follow a mathematical sequence found throughout the natural world. Young sunflowers track the sun across the sky through the day, a movement called heliotropism, which stops once the flower matures and settles facing east.
The craspedia, those perfect yellow spheres, comes from Australia and New Zealand and is one of the very few cut flowers that dries without changing shape or colour at all. It can be lifted out and kept indefinitely.
Finished in the signature Amicis copper box with white tissue, the copper and gold deliberately reinforcing each other. The photograph shows the Large size.
