“The gardens have been overflowing with inspiration. It was so exhausting to decide on the place to begin,” Bullock says. “However I felt an actual reference to the fountain—the focus of the kitchen backyard—lined in moss. It was a reasonably strange form. I additionally completely needed to honor the bees. They’re an unmissable a part of the backyard, and particularly essential to the king. I liked how homely the backyard felt—not too curated, and really habitable, so I hopefully captured that within the cascade prints.”
“We’ve all the time stated that mom nature is the final nice luxurious home,” says Richard Christiansen, founding father of Flamingo Property, the approach to life model behemoth named after his personal luxurious homestead, set amongst perpetually golden-hour orchards and the rolling California hillsides. “We’d like her greater than ever now. In unsure, troublesome occasions, nature provides us hope and a way of custom and permanence, which is so essential.”
Christiansen, as soon as an promoting govt, developed Flamingo Property from a COVID-era challenge supporting native farmers promoting vegetable containers into over 50 merchandise, like soaps made with Huge Sur salt and candles scented with heirloom tomatoes, in addition to farm containers filled with seasonal white peaches and asparagus. Flamingo Property has collaborated with Kelly Wearstler on a California modernist-style gingerbread home, and produced a set of bronze backyard instruments with Campbell-Rey and a luxe cashmere blanket with The Elder Statesman. Shortly, he laid the roots for luxurious vogue to search out its personal footing amid the mulching, weeding, and harvesting.
Flamingo Property partnered with Burberry to have a good time the Highgrove assortment in LA again in Might earlier than Christiansen set off to the Cotswolds. At his property, friends noticed honey-making with a beekeeper, took a category in Japanese flower arranging, and discovered about soap-making performed utilizing fruits and crops harvested from the property’s orchard and gardens. “The Highgrove Backyard was all the time my dream,” Christiansen says. “It’s been on all of my moodboards and I’ve checked out each photograph since I used to be a small youngster. It represents not only a stunning backyard, however all the arms that tended to it. So to try this with the extra layer of conventional heritage from Burberry was a dream come true.”
As we departed Highgrove, Christiansen was studiously noting the gargantuan ivy scaling the king’s residence. Nara Smith mentioned her hopes to have chickens in her personal backyard quickly. A parade of the floral-flecked scarves, variously worn as neckerchiefs, bag adornments, and headbands, filed out on their strategy to Estelle Manor, the week’s Burberry bolthole.
Burberry’s wealthy archive nonetheless teems florals, which Eck will get to discover: there are the floral-themed print ads from 1867; the silk-lined, iris-dotted outerwear items from 1913; and ditsy runway prints, weaves, and elaborations from all through the ’90s. “In 2003, Burberry created a gardening capsule comprising an apron, gloves, and a software belt that includes backyard motifs, which was whimsical and enjoyable!” Eck says. “I look ahead to buying our newest assortment of Highgrove into the archive, which might be a incredible reference for generations to return.”
