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This season, Bloomist had the good fortune to collaborate with creative consultant and prop stylist Ayesha Patel. “Bloomist has a beautiful range of products — including the pitchers we curated together — and we chose a lovely historic location for the photoshoot,” Patel says. “It was exciting to have endless still-life possibilities, choosing on the spur of the moment what to group together and where to place it. What a treat!" |
Included within the shoot were pitchers created by craftsmen in New Delhi, working as part of the SYZYGY collective. Pitchers figure favorably among Patel’s favorite pieces: “I love the combination of form and function that they represent, and the fact that they can be of so many shapes: clean and modern with straight sides, or fat and full bellied, big spout or little beak, handled or not, embellished and ostentatious or puritan-plain,” she says. “I love them all. There’s something innately beautiful in the function of pouring, offering, nourishing which they will do no matter how you use them — at your table for drinks, to water your plants, or to hold flowers in your home.”
![]() An alumnus of Martha Stewart Living Magazine, Patel didn’t grow up dreaming of becoming one of America’s foremost prop stylists. She thought, perhaps, of a career in science. “To be honest, I never dwelled much on what I was going to be,” she says now, with a laugh. “I was going to study biology.” Instead, she left her native India to study fine art — first in London, then in Philadelphia, where she was originally a printmaking major. “In my junior year I started making — for lack of a better word — ‘assemblages,’ these boxes full of stuff,” she says. These dioramas functioned as studies in objects, and they typically included organic materials from the then-unfamiliar world around her: “mottled bosc pears, wafting maple helicopter seed pods, blush-hued buckwheat groats," she says. “Inspired by still life paintings of Giorgio Morandi, an array of beautiful varied shapes and hues may be admired for inherent form. No flowers required.”- Ayesha Patel
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Black with green is always a stunning combination. Jikoku planters with chic charcoal wood bases mingle with
pitchers and vases yet to be filled with branches and sprigs of the season. Varying shades of green from
emerald foliage to celadon-toned eucalyptus and succulents bring a nuanced subtlety to a bold palette.
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