A two-florist atelier in a converted tannery loft, founded in 2014 by Margaux Levrier and joined in 2018 by Inés Castel. We keep our books deliberately small — fewer than thirty weddings a season — so every arrangement is built by the hands you actually meet.
We are gardeners first, decorators second. Most of what we use is grown by people whose first names we know.
Margaux had been a pastry cook for nine years and a Sunday flower-arranger for slightly longer when, in October 2014, she handed in her chef's coat and rented the smallest stall at the back of the old tannery building. There was no plan beyond the lease. The first wedding was a friend of a friend's elopement in a borrowed orchard.
The kitchen-to-loft pivot turned out to be less of a pivot than it sounded. The discipline of pastry — temperature, timing, taking the same sugar three different ways — translated directly to flowers. A peony that has held all night in the cooler is, technically, no different from a soufflé you have to time.
Inés joined three years in, after a season picking tulips in the Loire and a winter at a market garden outside Ghent. She brought the field knowledge; Margaux brought the cooler and the ledger. The loft has not been remodelled since. We like it the way it is.
We will not import a peony in February to match a Pinterest board. If a particular flower is not blooming the week of your wedding, we will tell you, and we will offer something even better that is. The bouquet should look like the month it was made in.
Eighty-five percent of our stems come from four flower farms within thirty miles of the loft. We visit them weekly during the season and the rest of the time we are at the dawn market. The Dutch auction is a last resort, never a first.
We cap the calendar at thirty Saturdays per year. It is the only way two florists can build every arrangement themselves, attend every consultation, and still have the energy to forage on Wednesdays. The cap is the product.
A converted tannery with twelve-foot windows, three buckets per wedding, a cooler that runs at exactly forty-two degrees, and a kettle that has been with us since 2014. Coffee is at nine, gossip at ten, shears down at noon.
A two-person studio is not a marketing position. It is the actual size of the company. We answer the email; we drive the truck; we cut the eucalyptus.
If you book with the studio, you will meet both of us at the consultation, and one or both of us will install on the day. There is no junior team. There is no white-label. There is the loft, the cooler, the truck, and us.
Trained as a pastry cook at École Bellouet, founded the studio in 2014 after nine years on the line. Builds the bridal bouquets and runs the books. Her bouquets always have a hidden trailing stem.
Came up through market gardens in the Loire and Belgium. Joined in 2018. Runs the foraging, manages the grower relationships, and leads every install. She drives the truck; she does not let anyone forget it.
Inés is in the truck by six. Branches from the river path, herbs from a friend's allotment, anything wild that the season is offering. Back at the loft, conditioned and into buckets by lunch.
Margaux goes to the four o'clock dawn market. We buy from four growers we have known since 2015. The list is mental, the swap-outs are constant. Whatever is sharpest that morning, wins.
The whole day is build day. Personals first, then centerpieces, then the bouquet last so it spends the least time in water. Cooler closes at seven; we eat together; the playlist is always the same.
On site by nine, breakdown by midnight. We arrive with one extra branch, one extra ribbon, and a small bouquet for the bride's mother — that one is not on the invoice and never has been.
We do not chase press, but we are grateful when the kind editors come and find us. Every feature here was unpaid; we have never advertised.
"They sent us a sample bouquet a week before the wedding. I cried at the kitchen table. Then I remembered my mother grew that exact ranunculus and they had no way of knowing."
Consultations are an unhurried hour, complimentary, in the loft or by video. We answer every inquiry within two working days. Tea is at three.