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Lucy Vail

  • Flower designer
  • London, United Kingdom
  • Master Artisan
Lucy Vail Flower designer
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British flowers for otherworldly compositions

  • • Lucy is specialised in large-scale, spectacular floristry arrangements
  • • She is a huge fan of bright colours and British flowers
  • • She collaborates with her mother, who runs a flower farm

Lucy Vail had been making Christmas wreaths since she was 16. She was so talented that while she was still at university someone asked her to arrange flowers for their daughter's wedding. Lucy was puzzled, but not discouraged. She learned from YouTube tutorials how to make table arrangements, how to suspend flowers and so on, and in the end her flower arrangements on the day were a success. This is when she decided to take floristry up as her profession. Lucy contacted Tuscany Flower, one of the top wedding florists in the world, and asked to be their apprentice. She moved to Florence to work with them for a year and a half and even contributed to George Clooney’s and Kim Kardashian’s weddings. “It was an absolute roller coaster,” she remembers. “We worked 18 hours a day, but it was the best training ever.” Further training with other luxury florists followed, both in Venice and in the UK. Then, Lucy was ready to set up her own studio.

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Works

  • ©Alexanndra Shamis
  • ©Added Dimension
  • ©Yaov Picherski
  • ©Rebecca Goddard Photography
  • ©Alexanndra Shamis
Photo: ©Alexanndra Shamis
Easter tablescape for de Gournay

This is an Easter table designed to celebrate the joys of spring for de Gournay (creator of handpainted wallpapers). Colourful spring blooms in white vases sit amongst seasonal decorations such as painted eggs and fruit. The seasonal flowers used are tulips, ranunculus, Icelandic poppies, anemones, paper white narcissi, sweet peas and butterfly ranunculus.

Photo: ©Added Dimension
Italian-inspired marquee installation

Here Lucy Vail brought the Mediterranean to a bride who was not able to travel for her wedding. The Raj tent marquee was transformed with large tree installations and floral runners bursting with lemons and summer flowers such as garden roses, sweet peas, ammi majus, peonies and scabiosa. Hornbeam and euronymous completed the arrangement.

Photo: ©Yaov Picherski
A staircase of meadow flowers

This country house staircase was decorated with an abundance of British white meadow flowers and foliage: cosmos, garden roses, campanula, paniculata hydrangeas, thistles and ivy. Wild and ethereal, the staircase arrangement is 9 metres long, spanning the full length of the bannister. In the centre of the hallway underneath is a large tabletop glass vase full of flowers.

Photo: ©Rebecca Goddard Photography
Multi-day celebration in Hampshire

This is a beautiful wild and colourful mandap covered in seasonal flowers such as peonies, butterfly ranunculus, garden roses and sweet peas, and seasonal foliage such as white leaf and guelder rose. Originally planned to stand at the centre of a garden for a marriage ceremony, the mandap was brought into a Raj tent marquee due to bad weather. It framed the couple getting married, creating a perfect photo moment.

Photo: ©Alexanndra Shamis
A bathroom in collaboration with de Gournay

A country house bathroom decorated with de Gournay wallpaper was filled with colourful seasonal flowers and foliage to celebrate the coming of spring. Lucy Vail used tulips, narcissi, ranunculus, anemones, butterfly ranunculus, lilac, jasmines, hyacinths, agapanthus, and parvi as foliage.

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