Metropolitan Museum of Art

I was thrilled and honored to be invited to make an arrangement for the Met this week! I chose this beautiful bowl from their private collection, because of it's simple elegance. Also, being the dog days of summer, I thought it'd be perfect for an arrangement that might cool the senses.

Displayed in the Sackler Wing on the Met's second floor,
a few steps away from the spectacular Alexander McQueen exhibit which has drawn record-breaking crowds to the Met. Have you been? If not, you have 4 more days to catch it. After you've been wowed by McQueen's work and exhausted from standing hours in line, please stop by and rest your feet in the serene, Zen-like oasis that is the Japanese Reading Room, where my arrangement now sits.

Japanese paper tree branches (mitsukata), variegated aspidistra leaves, pale yellow and white phaeleonopsis orchids