Intense and lush, arrangements by Quince might include cattails and birchbark along with hydrangea and orchid. Yes, floral designers have been digging deeper into the natural world to pull out sculptural elements, but Quince does more than experiment with unexpected elements and combinations. Quince pieces can be dense, texturally complex, with a painterly sense of color that sometimes finds colors consciously bumping up against each other, sometimes nudging each other shade by shade.
With a BA in design and an MFA, Heather Hollern, worked for many years in graphic design/advertising before she began working with flowers while Liza Lubell studied visual art before launching Liza’s Garden in Sag Harbor. Hollern and Lubell met at one of Portland’s fine florists where the seeds for Quince were planted.
Quince’s flower and event design studio operates by appointment only. See the Quince website (designed by Hollern) for more information.
Fun fact: It was no “golden apple” that Paris awarded to “the most beautiful one,” (he chose love goddess, Aphrodite over Hera and Athena…big mistake) but a quince.
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