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Frédéric Dupré

  • Flower designer
  • Poilly-lez-Gien, France
  • Master Artisan
Frédéric Dupré Flower designer
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Extra-terrestrial floristry

  • • Frédéric is internationally known and celebrated for his atypical style
  • • He’s extremely versatile and never does the same thing twice
  • • Texture is the most important aspect of his arrangements

The youthful Frédéric Dupré had just obtained his degree in floristry when his teacher pushed him to enter the competition for 'the best apprentice in France'. "She had almost to trick me into it. But she proved right, as I won the gold medal!" Plenty of other awards followed, including Meilleur Ouvrier de France (effectively the 'Best Flower Designer in France' and the most prestigious title for flower designers) in 2011, and then in 2015 the most prestigious title in France: the World Cup. Today, he is one of the most celebrated and renowned flower masters not just in his country but in the world, he has worked everywhere from Latin America to East Asia as well as teaching at the prestigious Sikastone Flower Art School in Beijing. "I still have a small atelier in my basement, but the real one is on the move, in the places where I am invited to work and teach, but also in hotel rooms and planes. I always carry a notebook with me to jot down any ideas or inspirations."

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Works

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Spring flowers

The natural spirit meets architecture in this design of winter and spring flowers skilfully arranged in a beautiful equilibrium of straight and curved lines.

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Floral deplacement

Strelitzia, calla lilies, other flowers and branches are beautifully arranged in six vases of the same design but different dimensions and heights. The composition is a study of floral displacement, parallel style, asymmetry and proportions.

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Stemmed flowers

Geometry is the point in this arrangement of white, long-stemmed flowers placed on a horizontal branch of the same hue. Colours are similar, but textures are different: their juxtaposition makes the composition interesting.

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Transparency

Part of the Transparency collection, this arrangement is made of simple flowers and skilfully intertwined grass blades. As always happens in Dupré’s works, texture is the main point of the composition: the pattern is thicker at the bottom, much less going upwards. A hole allows us to see through.

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Diversion with Pasta

Light pink and lilac flowers are artistically intertwined with raw spaghetti in this surprising bouquet, which represents a material game of textures and colours. The contrast is striking between the pastel hues of flowers and the yellow of pasta, between the soft natural shape of the natural elements and the straight lines of the food.

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