interviews
BLUMEN PARIS
Maison 123
WINTER 2024
blumen paris
Elisa Benchetrit, founder of Blumen Paris, combines poetry and savoir-faire in her Paris studio, where she creates floral installations and unique ceramic objects. Passionate and committed, she sublimates boutiques, shoots and magazine pages with her art.
Ceramic means solidity.
Flowers are ephemeral. Where do you find your balance between the two?
Precisely at working with these two mediumsI find it interesting to have chosen two practices that include the living and the indestructible, is right it my scale and my balance, be able to work with different materials are all equally sensitive as as each other. Je finds that it me represents well ultimately
Flowers tell stories. Which one would you like to share through your creations?
I love create imaginary worlds and universes, so there isn’t one story, but rather each piece/each project tells a different story. My subjects of choice recently have been banquets and death, and this what’s interesting about these themes is that there are so many ways of approaching them. approach differently.
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Which women inspire you on a daily basis?
And if she were a flower, what would she be?
There are so many women who inspire me, starting with my friends, it’s impossible to choose just one. For flowers, they’d be tulips, because there are so many shapes, textures and colours to choose from. colors, which I think represents them very well. I think.
Is there a color or texture combination that you particularly love for the holidays?
The ribbons and stabilized amaranth. I love black, green and red. white for Christmas.
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What's the essence of a successful Christmas floral decoration?
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Something unconventional and me. J’adore work monochrome colors but with textures of plants different by for example from asparaguspine and araucaria. Why not add to vegetables from season in the composition in the same tones also, play on appearance sculptural
For Christmas floral decorations: maximalist or minimalist team? And what's your tip for the perfect centerpiece?
It really depends on the table and the other elements, in any case team huge tablecloths with lots of drapes and gathers, superimpose several materials like for example tablecloth + tulle or lace. For the floral arrangements in general I love the sculptural aspect of an arrangement, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that everything has to be in profusion. I don’t have any specific tips, except that for me it’s important to It’s very important that floral arrangements and tableware match, in the choice of cutlery and glassware, their colors, etc.
If your workshop had a flower playlist, which song would be its anthem?
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I’d say ANDREW ASHONG & THEO PARRRISH – Flowers
Do you have a floral muse in art, history or pop culture?
Pop culture: LA ROSALIAAAA