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Gábor Nagy

  • Flower designer
  • Budapest, Hungary
  • Rising Star
Gábor Nagy Flower designer
Contact
Hungarian, English
Hours:
Monday to Friday 08:00 - 16:30, Saturday 08:00 - 13:00
Phone:
+36 704361328
©Gábor Nagy

When floristry meets art

  • • Gábor has won floral competitions in Hungary and abroad
  • • He has largely taught himself from reading books
  • • He integrates unusual materials in his designs

2017 was a year to remember for Gábor Nagy. At 23 he won both the Hungarian Flower Arrangement Championship and the European Youth Championship in Belgium, suddenly becoming a star of international floral design. Yet, he never trained properly to be a professional in the field. “I didn't attend any school or course” he admits. “But my parents have been running a flower shop in Vásárosnamény, our hometown, since I was 12. After school I used to help them there, and I still do every time I go home from Budapest, where I live and work now.” Back then, it was mostly his mother who taught him. “The rest I learned by myself, reading a lot of books” he says. “That’s why my compositions are so different from the traditional ones.”

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Works

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Life

Part of a collection called “Decontructed reality”, this composition is the artist’s version of the Tree of Life and is made entirely of natural materials: wood and moss for the base, two kinds of flowers, lilacs and oxypetalum, for the rest. Lilacs are arranged as tendrils, and the oxypetalum are glued to them: both the arrangement and its colours give an idea of falling down and gently cascading.

Length 70 cm
Width 40 cm
Height 70 cm

Photo: ©Gábor Nagy
Roots

This design is the first piece of the artist’s “Deconstructed reality” collection and evokes roots pulled out from the soil when they are still full of life. Nagy made a base from yucca stems, melted plastic into them and glued the flowers in an upright position, adding mushrooms and akebia tendrils. The upper part of the arrangement, where everything is hanging from, is made of carved dry floral foam and decorated with poppy seeds.

Length 30 cm
Width 30 cm
Height 90 cm

Photo: ©Gábor Nagy
Balance

Part of the “Deconstructed reality” collection, this design represents Nagy’s idea of balance. Its main core is a wreath of bean flowers and tendrils with albizia flowers at its centre, arranged on a base of black paper decorated with seeds. The wreath is hanging from a piece of wood embellished with golden details, held just by two subtle woollen threads.

Length 110 cm
Width 20 cm
Height 110 cm

Photo: ©Gábor Nagy
Bouquet with a gradient

Many different flowers from calla lilies to ranunculus, hypericum and others, all chosen for their warm colors, compose this autumn-inspired design along with wires and pieces of plastic of the same hues, that form the base of the bouquet. Arranged with the spiraling method, which consists of criss-crossing the stems in the vase, the bouquet follows a color scheme that goes from lightest on the sides to darkest in the middle.

Length 105 cm
Width 25 cm
Height 40 cm

Photo: ©Gábor Nagy
Rebirth

Part of the “Phoenix” collection inspired by the mythological bird who rises from its ashes, this work evokes the birth of something new after a personal, intimate transformation. The base is made from dried materials shaped to form an open eggshell, with scadoxus petals and passiflora tendrils inside. At the very centre, the artist’s favourite flower: a single dandelion.

Length 18 cm
Width 13 cm
Height 15 cm

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