"Summer's lease hath all too short a date," Shakespeare
lamented. Not so the blooms that Barbra Scott fashions
into voluptuous bouquets in her Manhattan studio
(212-691-0277).
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The former clothing designer makes arrangements of preserved flowers
using a technique that has been around since Louis XIV.
She places live blossoms in barrels of very fine
sand to sit for five to ten days until all of their
moisture has been extracted.
Kept in an air-conditioned environment during humid
months, her bouquets maintain their color and shape
for up to a year. |
The flowers don't smell, but that hasn't
stopped decorators like David Easton and Parish-
Hadley from coming back for more. Scott's motto is
"The more colors, the better." She says, "If you are
going to have an arrangement for a year, you want to
see something different in it every time you walk into
the room." —LYGEIA GRACE |
