Artful Arrangements: Book event featuring top Florist Emily Thompson and Potter Frances Palmer
Sunday, June 29
12:00 pm Flower arranging demonstration
Reception with book signing to follow
Tickets: $200 (includes a signed copy of each author's book)
(Madoo members get 10% off; use your member code)
Limited Seating
Join us for a flower arranging demonstration with leading florist Emily Thompson, author of Emily Thompson Flowers, and potter Frances Palmer, author of Frances Palmer:Life with Flowers. Learn the secrets of flower arranging from these two longtime friends and collaborators. The two women share a love of nature and seasonal flowers. Working with flowers and foraged materials, they will demonstrate simple to extravagant arrangements.
Emily Thompson, raised in the wild beauty of Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, brings a deep sense of place to her work as an artist. After studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the University of Pennsylvania, and earning her MFA in sculpture from UCLA, she settled in New York City, where she found her calling in the untamed elegance of floral design. Her installations, featured at venues like The White House, MoMA, and Lincoln Center, evoke the grandeur of nature in what she calls "magnificent style," inspired by the 18th-century picturesque ideals of William Gilpin.
Frances Palmer has been making ceramics since 1987, guided by a background in art history and a lifelong impulse to work with her hands. From her studio and garden in Weston, Connecticut, she creates functional works of art including vases, dishware, and photographs that deeply engage with process and seasonality. Her pieces, shaped by intention and meant to be lived with, have been featured in T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Vogue, Elle Décor, and The World of Interiors.
Sunday, June 29
12:00 pm Flower arranging demonstration
Reception with book signing to follow
Tickets: $200 (includes a signed copy of each author's book)
(Madoo members get 10% off; use your member code)
Limited Seating
Join us for a flower arranging demonstration with leading florist Emily Thompson, author of Emily Thompson Flowers, and potter Frances Palmer, author of Frances Palmer:Life with Flowers. Learn the secrets of flower arranging from these two longtime friends and collaborators. The two women share a love of nature and seasonal flowers. Working with flowers and foraged materials, they will demonstrate simple to extravagant arrangements.
Emily Thompson, raised in the wild beauty of Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, brings a deep sense of place to her work as an artist. After studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the University of Pennsylvania, and earning her MFA in sculpture from UCLA, she settled in New York City, where she found her calling in the untamed elegance of floral design. Her installations, featured at venues like The White House, MoMA, and Lincoln Center, evoke the grandeur of nature in what she calls "magnificent style," inspired by the 18th-century picturesque ideals of William Gilpin.
Frances Palmer has been making ceramics since 1987, guided by a background in art history and a lifelong impulse to work with her hands. From her studio and garden in Weston, Connecticut, she creates functional works of art including vases, dishware, and photographs that deeply engage with process and seasonality. Her pieces, shaped by intention and meant to be lived with, have been featured in T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Vogue, Elle Décor, and The World of Interiors.
Sunday, June 29
12:00 pm Flower arranging demonstration
Reception with book signing to follow
Tickets: $200 (includes a signed copy of each author's book)
(Madoo members get 10% off; use your member code)
Limited Seating
Join us for a flower arranging demonstration with leading florist Emily Thompson, author of Emily Thompson Flowers, and potter Frances Palmer, author of Frances Palmer:Life with Flowers. Learn the secrets of flower arranging from these two longtime friends and collaborators. The two women share a love of nature and seasonal flowers. Working with flowers and foraged materials, they will demonstrate simple to extravagant arrangements.
Emily Thompson, raised in the wild beauty of Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, brings a deep sense of place to her work as an artist. After studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the University of Pennsylvania, and earning her MFA in sculpture from UCLA, she settled in New York City, where she found her calling in the untamed elegance of floral design. Her installations, featured at venues like The White House, MoMA, and Lincoln Center, evoke the grandeur of nature in what she calls "magnificent style," inspired by the 18th-century picturesque ideals of William Gilpin.
Frances Palmer has been making ceramics since 1987, guided by a background in art history and a lifelong impulse to work with her hands. From her studio and garden in Weston, Connecticut, she creates functional works of art including vases, dishware, and photographs that deeply engage with process and seasonality. Her pieces, shaped by intention and meant to be lived with, have been featured in T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Vogue, Elle Décor, and The World of Interiors.