DAY 1
We arrived at the Castle of Chaumont Sur Loire at 1 pm with our materials and we prepared the structures of the designs, created by Mr.Taffn, our floral arrangement teacher, for our floral work. Below are the sketches of the drops and the trees that we were to realize.
For this project, we had to decorate the reception room of the castle with 8 flowered trees and 2 flowered drops.
We prepared many things to begin the next days, such as cleaning the hortensias, waterproofing the floral foams, and protecting the floor from water spills. Below is the structure of the drops that we flowered.
DAY 2
We received our flowers from Rungis and we divided them up for the 10 flowered structures.
Mr Taffin put us into 8 groups of 2 students, one group for each flowered tree.
The objective was to create volume and movement with different varieties of flowers, so we began with the bigger flowers like the globe artichokes and we finished with the most delicate flowers like the vanda orchids and the dahlias.
The final touch was the placing of the garlands made of malus (mini apples) and rose berries.
At the end of the day, the 8 trees were finished. Below a student and Mr. Taffin are working together on a flowered tree.
DAY 3
We had to create 4 compositions to be placed at the doors, 2 suspended drops, and 2 suspended festoons. The floral work of the trees was mimicked for all of these other decors.
After our work was completed, we thought our decor needed a final touch, so we created leaf curtains to spruce up the room, which we cleaned up for the next day for the start of the event.
The atmosphere was baroque in purple, red and fuschia tones, which gave the impression of an enchanted forest. We used led lit garlands because the exhibition was held in the dark.
DAY 4
In the morning, we checked the venue and in the afternoon, we had free time to visit the castle and its famous garden.
It was an amazing experience and there was a great atmosphere among our class members.
We formed a dream team 🙂 !!!
We send a warm thank you to our coaches, Mr. Taffin, Mr. Lann, and Mr. Doise, the team of the castle, and the team of La Grande Tortue camping. A big thank you also goes out to the Paris School of Florists for giving us this opportunity to perform our skills, our know-how, and our professionalism as florist apprentices.
The BP22 2021 ❤