flover and crosby studios bring life to discarded botanicals
Crosby Studios and floral design studio Flover present Flower Room, a one-day installation staged inside a private townhouse in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Conceived by Crosby founder Harry Nuriev, the project invited visitors into a fleeting environment where industrial materials and botanical fragments coexist to shape a sculptural silver capsule.
At the center of the installation stands a reflective structure made entirely from aluminum barbecue trays, a recurring material in Nuriev’s work. The silver-toned capsule, previously introduced in his Paris gallery, was filled with the byproducts of floral arrangement including discarded petals, bouquet scraps, and loose blooms arranged in buckets. These remnants, often overlooked in traditional floral displays, were placed in full view around a central table that seems to be discovered mid-use, lending the space a suspended, work-in-progress quality.
Crosby Studios and Flover create a one-night installation in Williamsburg | image © Pauline Shapiro
celebrating the ephemera of floristry
Flover brings its distinctive approach to its collaboration with Crosby Studios by layering the interior with sculptural floral compositions. Its design emphasizes the tension between beauty and decay, integrating its organic forms with the capsule’s industrial shell. Rather than arranging flowers as finished products, The floral design studio highlights the ephemera of floristry as part of the room’s architectural language.
The setting added to the installation’s resonance, as Flower Room was staged inside a townhouse recently designed by the team at Crosby Studios for Compass. This site-specific context extended the dialogue between architecture and interiors, with the silver capsule interrupting the domestic space as a temporary laboratory of creative expression.
the installation took place inside a Crosby Studios-designed townhouse | image © Pauline Shapiro
Material, Memory, and Transformation
With Flower Room, Crosby Studios and Flover highlight the role of residue and repetition in the act of making. By exposing the fragments typically left behind, the team centered the material traces of floristry and construction as worthy of architectural attention. The installation functions as an embodied reflection of process, one in which silvery surfaces and organic forms come together in dialogue.
Though it remained open for just one evening, Flower Room brought together over 230 visitors, including artists, designers, and local creatives. The space’s layered environment demonstrates the experimental spirit of both Crosby and Flover, and obscures the boundary between sculpture, set design, and temporary exhibition.
a sculptural silver capsule is made from aluminum barbecue trays | image © Pauline Shapiro
inside the capsule are silver petals, bouquet remnants, and buckets of loose flowers | image © designboom
a central worktable appears frozen in mid-process | image © designboom
flover transforms the capsule into a layered botanical space using expressive floral compositions | image © designboom
the installation emphasizes discarded materials typically hidden in floral displays | image © Pauline Shapiro
Flower Room welcomed over 230 guests during its one-night run | image © designboom
project info:
name: Flower Room
artist: Flover | @flovernyc
architect: Crosby Studios | @crosbystudios
on view: July 16th, 2025
photography: © designboom, © Pauline Shapiro | @paulineshapirophoto
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