Home Flower Set "Blaze of Red"

Three shapes in red and one soft note. Red gerbera — a flat disc, like a Calder mobile. Red cluster carnation — small dense pompons. Dried lagurus — cream ears, the one soft note in the set. Almost no foliage — you trim the stems straight and drop them into water, no cleaning required.

In 1976, the year of his death, Alexander Calder installed his largest sculpture in France on the esplanade of La Défense, just outside Paris: L'Araignée rouge (The Red Spider) — fifteen metres high, seventy-five tonnes of steel painted in his own red, "Calder red," a specific hue that was restored in 2016 for the sculpture's fortieth anniversary. You may have walked past it heading toward the Grande Arche. All his life Calder suspended flat discs of pure colour on thin wires that turned without stopping — his mobiles. This set is a mobile at rest: the red disc of the gerbera on its wire-stem, the carnation pompons as smaller circles, the lagurus cream as a pause. Keep everything in one vase for a compact mass — or split it across several vases of different heights in different rooms, like parts of a single mobile turning at once in the kitchen, the bedroom and the hallway.

Prefer another palette (pink, orange, white, yellow) or a different vase model than the ones offered? Message me on WhatsApp before ordering — I'll adapt.

A pair of floral shears and two vase models (Vase Pure Form, Vase Elegant Silhouette) are offered separately if you want everything in one delivery. Set made to order, delivered in Paris at the time you book, Monday to Saturday.