25. Chinese Dinner Service
Katz Floral Studio
Andrew Katz
2025 installation - Serving Room
The Inspiration
The Andersons’ china included these porcelain plates from a dinner service in a Chinese rose medallion pattern made in the mid-late nineteenth century.
The Flowers
Florist’s inspiration: A range of floral choices based on the ornamental floral imagery. Tones of pinks, various greens and oranges, as well as specific flowers such as peonies and blooming magnolia.
Recipe: In my creative process, I took notes from the colors, visual language and movement within the botanical imagery of these plates. My goal in this arrangement was to play off of the line work, types of flowers present, and the general nature of the ornamentation framing the imagery. Ultimately I wanted to create something that feels like it could exist within the same decorative visual language that's present within these pieces.
THE DESIGNER
Andrew Katz
Katz Floral Studio
Andrew Katz is the New York-based florist behind Katz Floral Studio. He has grown up with a deep love of flowers, and has a background in fine art. Both of these factors greatly influence his own practice in working with pushing the medium of flowers to a fun and exciting place!
PHOTOGRAPHED BY
Aimee Custis Photography
Aimee Custis & Katie Lingan
Aimee Custis Photography documents weddings, portraits, and events in a rich, luminous, and emotive style. Their inclusive, client-centric approach to wedding photography is informed heavily by Aimee’s background in hospitality, non-profit event planning, and college summers as a camp counselor. Their wedding work has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Washingtonian Weddings.
Aimee (she/they) lives in a rowhouse in Washington DC’s U Street corridor with her husband Greg and golden retriever Whiskey. Aimee is also the web designer behind the Art in Bloom website.
Aimee’s Associate Photographer Katie Lingan is rare cancer survivor with an entrepreneurial spirit. Katie joined the wedding industry in 2012 and has documented hundreds of weddings. Katie believes life is too short not to celebrate happiness.
