Last weekend we were back at One Whitehall Place for a beautiful Spring inspired wedding.
We used seasonal flowers throughout – Apple Blossom, parrot Tulips, fragrant Narcissi and pure white Hyacinths, 
ivory Roses and scented Freesia with accents of very pale pink Ranunculi and bright green Guelder Rose. Masses of pillar candles, petals and lily of the valley scented nite lites gave a truly magical effect at this wonderful venue
Last week was the annual London Design Week 
at the Design Centre in Chelsea Harbour. With around 70 companies taking part and showing off their most recently launched collections of fabric, lighting, carpet, furniture and more, it was a great opportunity to see what the current trends are for interior design around the world.
One of our oldest clients, fabric designers Jab, has moved to a stunning, much larger new showroom at Imperial Wharf www.jab.de/en. More photos to follow soon
We provided flower displays for some of the new showrooms at the Centre – Edelman Leathers, a wonderfully tactile showroom with leather and skins in fantastic designs, patterns and colours covering the entire floor, walls and furniture www.edelmanleather.com. We chose burnt orange James Storey orchids and silvery blue Eucalyptus to echo the tan leather tiles on the walls and ceiling and the snakeskin effect printed leather on the console table at the entrance.
We also created an unusual display for Wired
www.wired-designs.com, a new showroom featuring the most amazing collection of lights. They wanted something striking which would work with their dramatic lighting designs. So we chose hot pink Orchids, dark red passion Roses, green date palms and bright orange Protea!
Another of our long standing clients, the American design company J Robert Scott, has been at the Design Centre for many years, and has a fantastic contemporary collection of fabrics and furniture in the most wonderfully glamorous shades of cream, taupe, cinnamon, mink, chocolate with some accents of black and burnt orange/red www.jrobertscott.com
Lovers of white flowers, this year they had French Tulips.
Another showroom new to the Design Centre, The Bradley Collection, have an incredible range of curtain poles and finials. To keep with their contemporary image, we designed a display comprising white Hyacinths, Ranunculi and Eucalyptus in clear glass cylinders which was both fresh and Spring like www.bradleycollection.com
We are now well into the wedding season with a couple more weddings coming up at the end of this month. The first is at Pendley Manor in Hertfordshire www.pendley-manor.co.uk and the second is back at One Whitehall Place.
The wedding open day at OWP last weekend had a very good turnout despite the rubbish weather and football on the tv! We spoke to a lot of brides and are getting together a variety of ideas for their weddings during 2010 and into next year too.
We dressed the venue with a mix of table displays in shades of pink – from old antique parchment coloured Roses through to palest pink Astrantia. We had tall flute vases and slender lily vases both topped with generous balls of mixed flowers such as Stock, Amnesia Roses, Astrantia and Lisianthus. We also had some interesting low displays with white super parrot Tulips in black lampshades, dark burgundy Baccara roses and striking puffs of acid green Guelder Rose sitting on delicate glass cake stands.