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Menu About What We Do Gallery Our Story How to Commission a Floral Art Installation Blog / How to Commission a Floral Art Installation From Murano glass to bespoke floral sculpture — why the world’s most discerning collectors are now commissioning living art for their homes, events, and private spaces in India and the UAE. You know how to commission a painting. You have done it, perhaps, in a gallery off the Via della Spiga in Milan — a conversation with an artist whose work you have followed for years, a decision made not from a catalogue but from a relationship, from trust, from the certainty that this person understands something about beauty that most people simply cannot access. You know how to commission glass. You have stood in a Murano studio, watching a master glassblower shape something from nothing, and understood that what you were witnessing was not craft in the commercial sense but art in the most serious one — a piece that would cost what it costs because there is no other way to arrive at it. You know how to commission furniture — a table built by a Swiss atelier, a chair from an American studio that has a six-year waiting list and no Instagram account. The commissioning of a floral art installation is no different. The process, the conversation, the relationship — it follows the same logic. What changes is the medium. And the medium, as it happens, is the most alive one of all. Why Serious Collectors Commission Living Art There is a moment in the life of a great collector when the permanent pieces are in place. The walls are hung. The objects are positioned. The rooms are considered and complete. And yet something is missing. What the most sophisticated collectors have understood — in London, in New York, in the great private residences of the Gulf — is that a room of permanent beauty needs something impermanent to breathe. Something that changes with the light. Something that responds to the season, to the occasion, to the particular mood of a particular evening. The floral installation is that thing. Not a bunch of flowers placed on a sideboard. Not a standard hotel arrangement transplanted into a private home. A commissioned floral work — conceived specifically for a space, built by a designer who has studied the room the way an artist studies a canvas — is as much a piece of art as anything that hangs on a wall. The difference is that it lives. And because it lives, it changes everything around it. The Commissioning Process: How It Works at Foglia d’Oro The process of commissioning a floral art installation at Foglia d’Oro begins the same way every serious art commission begins. With a conversation. We begin by understanding the space — its architecture, its proportions, the quality of its light at different hours. We ask about the materials already present: the stone, the wood, the textiles, the colour palette. We ask about the pieces that matter most to you — the painting above the fireplace, the ceramic you brought back from Kyoto, the rug that took two years to find. Then we ask something different. We ask about mood. About feeling. About the emotion you want a room to carry — not when it is empty, but when it is full of the people who matter most to you. A floral installation is not just a visual decision. It is a sensory one. The weight of a stem. The way a particular bloom opens slowly over three days. The faint scent of a botanical that registers below consciousness and changes how a room feels without anyone being able to say exactly why. From this conversation, we begin to select. Not from a catalogue — there is no catalogue. From our direct access to Dutch flower markets, where we source stems that are not available in any Indian or GCC retail market. A variety chosen for its specific colour — not the colour it is supposed to be, but the exact shade that responds to the light in your particular room at your particular hour. The Installation: Where the Work Becomes Art A serious floral installation takes time. A single large-scale commission — a suspended installation for a private dining room, a floor-to-ceiling botanical sculpture for an entrance hall, a table installation for a gathering of twenty — will take between four and six hours to build on site. Sometimes longer. This is not inefficiency. It is the nature of the work. Every stem is placed with intention. Not positioned and stepped back from — placed, assessed, adjusted, and assessed again. How does this stem respond to the architecture behind it? How does this bloom behave next to the one beside it? Does this branch create the line that the composition needs, or does it close a space that should remain open? This is the work that cannot be rushed and cannot be replicated. The glassblower in Murano does not apologise for the time it takes to arrive at something extraordinary. Neither do we. What a client receives at the end of those hours is a piece that is entirely specific to them — to their space, their occasion, their sensibility. It will not appear in anyone else’s home. It cannot be ordered again, because the flowers that made it will not exist in that precise combination a second time. This is what the art world calls provenance. In the floral world, we simply call it the work. What to Commission: Scale, Occasion, and Intent The collector who commissions a Murano chandelier does not ask whether it will fit. They design the room around the piece. The same thinking applies to a floral installation at scale. For a private residence — a home in Emirates Hills, a villa in Palm Jumeirah, a penthouse in Downtown Dubai, or a considered home in Bangalore or Delhi — a floral installation commission typically falls

Menu About What We Do Gallery Our Story Blog Why Dubai’s Most Discerning Hosts Are Looking to India for Their Floral Vision Blog / Why Dubai’s Most Discerning Hosts Are Looking to India for Their Floral Vision Inside the quiet revolution happening at the tables of Emirates Hills, Palm Jumeirah, and beyond — and the Indian floral atelier that is redefining what a room can feel like. Dubai has always known how to do grandeur. The city built an entire identity on it. The Bulgari Resort rising from its own island. The Atlantis Royal, where the lobby alone is a statement of intent. The private villas of Emirates Hills, where the garden is as considered as the drawing room and the dinner table is, quite deliberately, a form of personal theatre. But the hosts who entertain at the highest level in Dubai — the ones whose tables appear in no publication but are spoken of in every room — have begun to ask a different question. Not how to make a space more impressive. How to make it feel like something. The answer, increasingly, is coming from India. The Table as Personal Brand Among Dubai’s internationally cultured hosting class — the 35 to 55 year olds who have sat at tables in Paris, Tokyo, and New York and know exactly what separates a dinner from an experience — the table has become the clearest expression of personal taste. The linen is considered. The ceramics are sourced. The light is designed. And yet, for all of this attention, the floral has too often remained an afterthought — a call to a local supplier, a standard arrangement in a standard vase, something pretty that everyone notices but nobody remembers. This is the gap that a new generation of floral thinking is beginning to fill. Not floristry as a service. Floral design as a discipline — as considered and as authored as every other element on a table built to be remembered. The Atelier Model: Why It Matters for Your Home Foglia d’Oro is India’s first floral atelier — a distinction that is more than semantic. Where a florist fulfils an order, an atelier authors a composition. Every piece begins with a conversation — about the space, the occasion, the client’s sensibility, and the mood they want a room to carry. From this, a bespoke floral response is built: not selected from a catalogue but conceived from nothing, stem by stem, for that specific environment. The flowers themselves are Dutch-imported — sourced directly from the Netherlands, the world’s foremost producer of premium florals. This is not a detail. In a market saturated with beautiful things, provenance is one of the last true differentiators. A Dutch garden rose does not look like anything available in a local market. It performs differently. It lasts differently. It sits in a room like something that was always meant to be there. For the discerning host in Dubai or Abu Dhabi, this combination — atelier process, Dutch provenance, Indian craft sensibility — produces something that cannot be found locally. And that, in a city where everything is available, is exactly the point. Three Moments Where the Floral Changes Everything In a Palm Jumeirah villa or an Emirates Hills residence, there are three spaces where a considered floral composition does its most powerful work. The entrance. This is the room’s opening statement — and in a private residence that entertains frequently, it sets the tone for every gathering before a guest has removed their shoes. A tall architectural composition, scaled to the ceiling height, built in a vessel that responds to the interior architecture. Not a bunch of flowers. A composed welcome. The dining table. For the host whose monthly private dinners are their most deliberate social act, the tablescape is the centrepiece of everything. Here, Foglia d’Oro works with the ceramics, the linen, the candlelight — composing a floral element that holds the table’s eye without competing with the conversation. Scale matters. Restraint matters more. The seasonal celebration. Eid. Diwali. A significant birthday. A private gathering that marks something. These are the occasions where a temporary floral installation — conceived for a single night, built with the precision of a permanent piece — transforms an already beautiful home into something that guests speak about long after the evening ends. The Indian Craft Sensibility: A New Luxury Language India has always had an extraordinary relationship with flowers. It is woven into the culture at every level — from the marigold garlands of temple ritual to the jasmine pinned into evening hair. But what Foglia d’Oro represents is something new: an Indian floral sensibility that is globally fluent. Founded by Leena Murthy — a designer whose eye was formed by years of working at the intersection of luxury hospitality, interiors, and event architecture — Foglia d’Oro brings to the floral the same rigour that India’s finest craftspeople bring to textile, jewellery, and furniture. The compositions are not decorative. They are structural. They argue with the room. They change it. For the Dubai host who has grown tired of the predictable — who has seen every orchid arrangement in every hotel lobby, who wants something that feels genuinely authored — this is the conversation they have been waiting to have. Working with Foglia d’Oro from the GCC Foglia d’Oro works with private clients, interior designers, and event architects across India and the GCC on bespoke floral commissions. The process begins with a consultation — understanding the space, the occasion, the client’s design references, and the experience they want to create. For GCC clients, this consultation happens remotely before a site visit is arranged. Every composition is conceived specifically for the space and occasion — never templated, never repeated. For ongoing residential clients — those who entertain monthly and want a floral presence that evolves seasonally with their home — Foglia d’Oro offers a private floral concierge service. This is how the great European houses have always thought about florals. It

Menu About What We Do Gallery Our Story Blog The Living Room: How to Integrate Florals into Luxury Interior Design Blog / The Living Room: How to Integrate Florals into Luxury Interior Design There is a moment — familiar to anyone who has walked into a truly exceptional home — when the room stops you. Not because of the art. Not the furniture, nor the light filtering through hand-embroidered curtains. It is something else entirely. Something that breathes. Something that was not placed so much as composed. In India’s most considered interiors — from the crafted corridors of Jaipur havelis reimagined for modern living, to the quiet, architect-designed apartments of South Bangalore — the most discerning designers are beginning to ask a question that has long been answered in the great houses of Europe: what role does the living floral play in a space designed to endure? Florals as Architecture, Not Decoration The first thing to understand about integrating live florals into a luxury interior project is this: a flower arrangement is not decoration. Decoration fills space. A floral composition structures it. Think of the way a master architect approaches negative space — the deliberate pause between walls, the corridor that slows you before a reveal. A bespoke floral composition operates on the same principle. It controls where the eye rests. It creates rhythm in a room that might otherwise feel static. At Foglia d’Oro, India’s first true floral atelier, every composition begins not with flowers but with the room itself — its proportions, its light at different hours, its relationship to the furniture and materials already present. This is the work of a floral designer, not a florist. The distinction matters enormously. For interior designers and architects working on high-end residential projects across India, this reframing changes everything. The floral is not the final touch. It is one of the primary decisions — as considered as the choice of stone or the weight of a door handle. The Dutch Provenance Advantage India’s luxury interiors have long understood the value of provenance — Italian marble, Belgian linen, Japanese joinery. Yet the country’s floral landscape has, until recently, remained largely local in its sourcing and limited in its ambition. Foglia d’Oro imports directly from the Netherlands — the world’s foremost producer of premium florals. Dutch-imported flowers carry a quality that cannot be replicated domestically: stem strength, bloom density, colour consistency across varieties that simply do not exist in Indian wholesale markets. An eryngium that holds its electric blue for three weeks. A protea that opens slowly, imperiously, over days. A garden rose so dense it sits in a room like a piece of sculpture. For the luxury interior designer specifying florals for a residential project, this provenance matters both aesthetically and practically. A composition built on Dutch-imported stems will perform — it will hold its form, its colour, and its presence — for significantly longer than a locally sourced equivalent. In a completed interior that has taken months to realise, this is not a small thing. Where Florals Work Hardest in a Luxury Interior Not every room requires a floral composition. But every luxury home has three or four moments where a considered floral placement becomes the axis around which the space organises itself. The entrance is the most powerful. It is the room’s first sentence — and it sets the tone for everything that follows. A tall architectural composition in a statement vessel, placed where the light catches it as you enter, tells a guest everything about the sensibility of the home before a word is spoken. The dining table is the second great opportunity. The tablescape is a designed environment — a temporary installation that should feel as considered as the room itself. Here, the floral works in conversation with the ceramic, the linen, the candlelight. Scale, proportion, and restraint are everything. Nothing excessive. Nothing incidental. The private study or library — increasingly a feature of India’s most ambitious residential projects — offers a third moment. Here, smaller compositions of dried botanicals and sculptural stems work with the warmth of leather and wood to create the sense that the room has been lived in for decades. This is not nostalgia. It is depth. Finally, the master suite. Often overlooked in Indian luxury interiors, a single stem — one extraordinary bloom, placed with intention — beside a bed or on a bathroom vanity says more about a home’s hospitality than an entire arrangement in a formal room. The Collaboration: Working with a Floral Atelier on a Design Project The most successful integrations of florals into luxury interior projects happen when the floral designer is brought into the conversation early — not after the interior is complete, but during it. At Foglia d’Oro, we work as a creative partner to interior designers, architects, and their clients across India. The process begins with a consultation — understanding the architecture, the palette, the client’s sensibility, and the way the space is used across different times of day and year. From this, we develop a floral proposal that is specific to the project: not a catalogue selection, but a composed response to a designed environment. For residential clients, we also offer ongoing floral concierge services — seasonal compositions that evolve with the home, delivered and installed by appointment. This is how the great European houses have always operated. It is a model that India’s most discerning homes are now beginning to adopt. The Indian Interior: A New Conversation India has never lacked a tradition of florals in its domestic spaces. From the marigold garlands of temple antechambers to the jasmine woven into evening rituals, flowers are woven into the grammar of Indian life with an intimacy that few cultures can match. What is changing — and changing rapidly — is the conversation around florals in contemporary luxury interiors. The new generation of Indian homeowners and designers is asking for something that goes beyond the traditional: florals that respond to the architecture, that work

Menu About What We Do Gallery Our Story Blog How Bespoke Floral Installations Elevate Events & Luxury Spaces Blog / How Bespoke Floral Installations Elevate Events & Luxury Spaces IntroductionThe most memorable spaces are not defined by what they contain, but by how they make people feel. Whether it is a wedding, a private celebration, or a luxury interior, the atmosphere determines the experience. Bespoke floral installations have the power to shape that atmosphere completely. Beyond DecorationFloral installations are often seen as decorative elements. In reality, they are far more impactful. They: Define the visual identity of a space Set the emotional tone Guide how people interact with the environment A well-designed installation does not blend in—it transforms the entire setting. Creating Emotional ExperiencesDifferent floral compositions evoke different emotions: Soft, flowing designs create romance and intimacy Structured, bold forms convey grandeur and power Minimal compositions bring calm and sophistication The right design aligns perfectly with the purpose of the space. Applications Across SpacesBespoke floral installations are versatile and impactful across various environments: Weddings & celebrations – creating unforgettable moments Luxury homes – adding personality and elegance Hotels & hospitality spaces – enhancing guest experience Brand environments – reinforcing identity and storytelling Each setting demands a unique approach. The Power of CustomizationNo two spaces are alike—and neither should their floral designs be. Customization involves: Aligning with the architectural style Matching color palettes with interiors Scaling designs to fit the space Reflecting the client’s vision This ensures that every installation feels organic, not imposed. Ephemeral Beauty & Lasting ImpactFresh floral installations create moments that are vivid and unforgettable, even if temporary.Preserved installations extend that beauty, allowing spaces to maintain their character for years. Both serve different purposes—but together, they create a complete experience. ConclusionBespoke floral installations are not an addition to a space—they are its defining element.They turn ordinary environments into immersive experiences and fleeting moments into lasting memories. © 2025. Copyright. Foglia d’Oro Store, Treasure Trove, Indira Nagar, BengaluruIN +91 9900212889 UAE +971 55122 8079 hello@foglia-doro.com Menu About What We Do Gallery Our Story Blog

Menu About What We Do Gallery Our Story Blog The Art Behind Luxury Floral Design – From Concept to Creation Blog / The Art Behind Luxury Floral Design – From Concept to Creation IntroductionLuxury floral design is often misunderstood as excess—more flowers, more color, more scale. In reality, true luxury lies in precision, intention, and restraint. It is not about arranging flowers.It is about crafting an experience. Understanding the SpaceEvery floral composition begins long before the first stem is placed. It starts with observation. A designer studies: The architecture of the space The flow of movement The way light changes throughout the day The emotional purpose of the environment This stage defines everything that follows. Sourcing Without CompromiseThe foundation of exceptional floral design lies in quality.Luxury demands sourcing that goes beyond convenience. This includes: Grade A stems Seasonal and rare varieties Direct relationships with growers Carefully preserved botanicals Each flower is selected not just for its beauty, but for its role within the composition. Designing with Architectural PrecisionFloral design follows principles similar to architecture and fine art. Key elements include: Balance – ensuring visual stability Proportion – aligning scale with space Texture – creating contrast and depth Color harmony – guiding emotional response Nothing is random. Every detail is deliberate. Execution: Where Vision Becomes RealityExecution is where design meets discipline.From a single sculptural vase to large-scale installations, the process requires meticulous attention. Placement, spacing, angles—each decision shapes the final outcome. The Value of Bespoke DesignIn luxury, uniqueness is everything.Bespoke floral design ensures that no two pieces are ever the same. Each creation is: Tailored to the client’s space Designed around their lifestyle Crafted to reflect their identity ConclusionLuxury floral design is not about abundance—it is about mastery.It transforms flowers into a medium of expression, where every composition tells a story of intention, precision, and beauty. © 2025. Copyright. Foglia d’Oro Store, Treasure Trove, Indira Nagar, BengaluruIN +91 9900212889 UAE +971 55122 8079 hello@foglia-doro.com Menu About What We Do Gallery Our Story Blog

Menu About What We Do Gallery Our Story Blog Flowers as Living Art – Why Floral Sculptures Are the Future of Interior Design Blog / Flowers as Living Art – Why Floral Sculptures Are the Future of Interior Design IntroductionAmong all the elements that define a space—furniture, art, lighting—very few have the ability to evolve. Most décor is static. It exists, but it does not respond. Flowers, however, are different. They breathe life into a room, creating a presence that shifts with light, mood, and time. Today, floral design is no longer limited to simple arrangements. It has evolved into sculptural expression—where flowers are treated not as decoration, but as living art. From Decoration to TransformationTraditional décor fills empty corners. Floral sculptures transform them.A thoughtfully designed floral piece does not sit quietly—it commands attention. It becomes the emotional center of a room, influencing how people feel when they enter. Unlike conventional décor objects, floral sculptures: Interact with natural light Add depth and movement Bring softness to structured spaces Create an immersive sensory experience The Philosophy of Floral SculptureFloral sculpture borrows its language from architecture. Every piece is built with intention—considering proportion, scale, and spatial harmony. It is not about placing flowers together.It is about composing them. Each stem becomes a structural element. Each color adds dimension. Each curve introduces movement. The result is a form that feels alive—because it is. Preserved vs Fresh: The Modern ApproachModern floral design balances permanence with ephemerality. Preserved florals offer longevity, lasting for years while maintaining their beauty. They bring stability and timeless elegance to interiors. Fresh florals introduce seasonality and change, creating moments that feel exclusive and fleeting. Together, they allow a space to feel both grounded and dynamic. Why It’s the Future of Interior DesignAs spaces become more curated and intentional, the demand for meaningful design elements continues to grow. People no longer want just “beautiful” spaces—they want spaces that feel alive. Floral sculptures answer that need. They: Bridge art and nature Add emotional depth to interiors Create memorable visual experiences ConclusionIn the future of interior design, flowers will not simply decorate spaces—they will define them.A floral sculpture is not just something you see. It is something you feel, experience, and remember. © 2025. Copyright. Foglia d’Oro Store, Treasure Trove, Indira Nagar, BengaluruIN +91 9900212889 UAE +971 55122 8079 hello@foglia-doro.com Menu About What We Do Gallery Our Story Blog