Zara Home x Studio Mary Lennox: how to style the vases with artificial flowers

The new Zara Home x Studio Mary Lennox collection is here, and as a flower lover, you’ll want to take a look. Sculptural vases, brass details and a flower frog that turn flowers into little works of art in your home.

That’s exactly the kind of styling we love here at RHODÉ. Not just a standard bunch of flowers that you simply pop into a vase, but playing with height, shape and movement.

And the best bit? You can easily recreate this look with artificial flowers. We’ll show you which flowers from the RHODÉ collection we’d pair with our favourite pieces from the Studio Mary Lennox collection.

Studio Mary Lennox x Zara Home

Studio Mary Lennox is a botanical design studio based in Berlin, founded by Ruby Barber. The studio is known for its unique floral installations in which flowers and plants are much more than mere decoration.

This is reflected in the collection for Zara Home. The vases and objects invite you to look at a floral arrangement in a different way. Sometimes a single striking branch is enough. Sometimes it’s three flowers that, together, create a beautiful shape. For us, that is perhaps the most important styling lesson from this collection.

Our favourite: calla lilies on a flower frog

If we had to choose just one combination from this collection, it would be this one. The flower frog by Studio Mary Lennox paired with the artificial calla lilies by RHODÉ.

A flower frog is used to hold individual flowers in place, allowing you to build a composition with great precision. Instead of a full bouquet, you can position each flower separately.

And calla lilies are fantastic for this. With their long stems and characteristic curved shape, calla lilies are almost sculptural in their own right. For example, place three, five or nine calla lilies at different heights on the flower frog and let each flower lean in a slightly different direction. It is precisely the empty space between the flowers that makes the whole arrangement interesting.

Curious to find out how you can actually turn calla lilies into a work of art? Then read this blog about creating Ikebana.

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Long flowering branches in a sculptural vase

Another combination that immediately sprang to mind: one of the tall, organic vases from the Studio Mary Lennox collection with long cherry blossom branches or viburnums.

With a distinctive vase, you don’t want to hide its shape beneath a huge bouquet. Long flowering branches actually add height whilst keeping the arrangement light and airy. For example, use three branches and bend them in different directions. One branch can stick out a little higher, whilst you let another fall more horizontally.

This creates an arrangement that almost becomes part of the room’s architecture. This look works beautifully on a large dining table, a sideboard or anywhere you want to create a bit of extra height. And with artificial blossoms and artificial viburnums, you naturally have another advantage: the flowers simply stay in place, whatever the season.

How do you choose artificial flowers for a distinctive vase?

Do you have an eye-catching vase in your home? Then, of course, you don’t have to create exactly the same arrangements. Focus on the shape of the vase.

For a tall, narrow vase, long branches and flowers with long stems look lovely. Think of calla lilies, eucalyptus or blossom branches.

With a short or wide vase, you can create more volume with flowers such as peonies and dahlias. And if you have a vase that’s a real design statement in its own right? Keep it simple. A single beautiful branch or a small number of flowers can make a much stronger impression than a full bouquet.

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Styling artificial flowers: dare to bend them

One advantage of good-quality artificial flowers that is sometimes overlooked is that you can shape them. A real flower largely determines for itself how the stem falls. With artificial flowers, you have more control over the composition.

Make a stem slightly curved. Deliberately let a flower face downwards. Bend a branch a little further out. Small adjustments like these make a big difference. You can make good use of this, particularly with the sculptural approach to flower styling seen at Studio Mary Lennox.

From bouquet to interior statement

What inspires us most about the Studio Mary Lennox x Zara Home collection isn’t any one specific vase. It’s the way flowers are viewed.

A floral arrangement doesn’t always have to be a large bouquet in the centre of the table. A single striking branch in a beautiful vase can make just as strong an impression. Three calla lilies on a flower stand can form a small work of art. And a few large flowering branches can transform an entire corner of a room. Flowers really do become part of your interior décor.

And that’s exactly where you can experiment endlessly with artificial flowers. You can create an arrangement, swap a few stems the following month, and later take it all apart again for a completely new combination.

Create your own Studio Mary Lennox-inspired look

Have you fallen in love with this style of flower arrangement too? Discover RHODÉ’s artificial flowers and bouquets and put together your own arrangement.

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