2010年7月3日土曜日

BOURGEON, a new flower shop in Paris

The flowershop BOURGEON, recently open in the 1st district of Paris beside the street of Rivoli, is the flower shop of the Catherine Muller’s Flower School in Paris. The walls sheltering this new shop formerly constituted the old stables of the royal palace of Paris, so called Palais Royal.





Long works were necessary to relook this old shop according to the ideas of the designer Catherine Muller to install her Flower School in Paris. We completely reconsidered the configuration of underground in order to create space as well as possible and emphasizing the parts arched out of old stone of this cellar to preserve the authentic seal of the place.






To find a single color for the walls was not easy either and it will have been necessary for us less than 6 months of research before finding the good color: a mixture of grey of Payne and ashed grey, colors which bring sobriety, contrast and light with the various colors of the flowers of the flower shop BOURGEON.






For her part, Catherine Muller wished an environment “street art” and Town to create a contrast with the refinement of her natural work and her flowers in the capital of France. Thus, rough material like breeze blocks or schemes of work out of metal one used to perfect the decoration of the flower shop BOURGEON something simple, something rough, an urban landscape.




Thanks to our shop, students in formation of reconversion of florist can, besides their courses of floral design with Catherine Muller, to observe and take part in all the activities which compose the good performance of the flower shop BOURGEON et thus, to constitute a true experiment as a florist.






Catherine Muller flower school : For any information about the floral art lessons, programs, etc., don't hesitate to contact us : send us an e-mail !
You can now have access to our online calendar !
You can easily register to the floral art courses by e-mail !
The Floral Designer Catherine Muller Official Website
And The Catherine Muller Flower School Official Website


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Wedding floral decoration at the famous parisian restaurant: Le Pré Catelan

A few days ago, Catherine Muller and her team invested the very famous gourmet restaurant: Le Pré Catelan, located all beside Paris, in order to prepare the decoration of a wedding there. Requiring much work, the bases of the decoration were prepared the day before at the flowershop BOURGEON (BOURGEON is the flowershop of the Catherine Muller Flower School in Paris). Flower arrangements being very precise, the most open flowers were used for the bases, while knowing pertinently that they would be replaced on the following day by the most beautiful flowers of Paris.
Catherine Muller teached especially some of her students, in order to prepare them take part in this true decoration.




The request of the bride was the following one: decoration must be sophisticated while remaining natural, restrained, modern and especially, single.
Thus, the Catherine Muller’s team with some of the excellent students of the Catherine Muller Flower School created a set of table center in shade of chlorophyllian green and white (arum (for the modernity), peonies, orchids, hydrangeas…) It was very interesting to see how Catherine Muller selects her flowers for which are most beautiful flowers of Paris, it them selected almost one by one.




As for buffets, the idea was the same one: it was not necessary that not returned either too much « wild » or too sophisticated but natural and single. In her flower school in Paris, Catherine Muller showed us how to cover the vases with sheets of Aralia. And like Catherine Muller teaches in her courses, it is important to observe the sheet on both sides because sometimes, the back of the sheet is the most interesting. In that case precisely, the sheets were placed at back in the order to take out again the veins for a best result.




In the romantic and imposing spirit of the wedding, two Medicis vases were decorated by Catherine Muller and one of her students who is currently in reconversion of florist.





While part of the team was on the reception part, two other people of flower school Catherine Muller worked on the splendid Bentley GT of the grooms in order to carry out something of refined and discreet.



Balustrades, being inside room of reception, have been adorned of flowers, most beautiful the ones as the others. Catherine Muller occupied with one of her pupil, who is at the end of her formation of florist.



Catherine Muller supervised the decoration of the external sunshade, thus creating a summery environment or even exotic.



Lastly, the floral designer Catherine Muller decorated the groom’s armchair herself, respectively giving them a male character (more graphic, more purified), and a female character (more refined, more in roundness and romanticism).




Finally, it was just great for all of the team members and very developing for the students, to see the results of their work as well as the recognition of the organizers of the marriage and of Catherine Muller.


Catherine Muller flower school : For any information about the floral art lessons, programs, etc., don't hesitate to contact us : send us an e-mail !
You can now have access to our online calendar !
You can easily register to the floral art courses by e-mail !
The Floral Designer Catherine Muller Official Website
And The Catherine Muller Flower School Official Website


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2009年11月21日土曜日

Catherine Muller Flower School : a new Shop and Flower School in Paris ! !

Dear all,
we are so glad to inform you that we have just opened a few weeks ago a new shop and Flower School in Paris !



This is our new address :
Catherine Muller Flower School / Boutique BOURGEON
1 rue des Pyramides
75001 Paris

Subway : Tuileries (line 1) or Pyramides (line 7 and 14)

We are placed just between Rue de Rivoli and Rue Saint Honoré !! It has been so wonderful when we opened : many people who work in the neighborhood have welcomed us so kindly. This quarter of Paris is just lovely : it is a small village, really !



During months and months, we have totally re-built this old shop (previously it was used by a gentle hair cutter). We have replaced everything on the first floor to make it specially designed for the new Catherine Muller Flower school and shop, and we have replaced the front of the shop too. Underground, we have kept the old huge ancient cave with old stones. The building was used centuries ago as the royal stables ! (the new flower school is near Palais Royal)




We want to say thank you to all of our students, from the beginning of Catherine Muller story, thank you for you support during our first step in 16th quarter ! We will be glad to welcome you in this new place !



See you ! All the Best,

Catherine,
and the Catherine Muller Team.

Catherine Muller flower school : For any information about the floral art lessons, programs, etc., don't hesitate to contact us : send us an e-mail !
You can now have access to our online calendar !
You can easily register to the floral art courses by e-mail !
The Floral Designer Catherine Muller Official Website
And The Catherine Muller Flower School Official Website


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2009年7月3日金曜日

Catherine Muller Flower School : Decoration in Opera Garnier in Paris

Last April, it was so great to have the privilege of going inside the Opera de Paris to create a big decoration with the Catherine Muller team.
We were a team of 7 florists for this big decoration : 3 from Catherine Muller Company, and 4 students prepared for the event.



During the first days of the one week course, Catherine Muller teached us many techniques for middle and big size decoration. The title of the course was "the intensive : special event cocktail" (see the calendar for the next courses and the corresponding program).


On Wednesday we started to prepare the different structures of the decoration. On Thursday we started to work on the flowers. Every Rose Avalanche was treated specially with 2 projection of colors, to make a special effect with the light, something metallic with a reflect of gold.


Friday was the big day : we arrived in the morning at the Opera : everything must be finished at 13:00 p.m. We install the flowers on the most beautiful stair ever seen in the world, and on the balconies.


The result is fantastic, the effect is totally different when all the flowers are together, seen from far away compared to what you feel when you prepare the decoration : it is very surprising to see this completely finished !


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2009年2月20日金曜日

Flower School Catherine Muller : Event in Palace-Elysee, Paris

We had the pleasure to welcome you for this event at Palace Elysées.














One of the goals of this party organized with the IFBC, international flower bulb center, was to remind tot the great public that the summer flower bulb are also beautiful flowers to be used in your arrangements, like Catherine Muller did explain to everybody during this floral art lesson.



After the demonstration of Catherine Muller for the realization of this bouquet especially build around summer flower bulbs, all of the students have had the possibility to create their own floral arrangement, corresponding to their personal style. The french floral designer Catherine Muller herself and her assistants helped every single student to realize the bouquet.















There are some photo souvenirs of this great evening, followed by a cocktail organized by the IFBC. Many thanks !















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At this occasion, we also had the pleasure to welcome during a floral art course in our Catherine Muller School some journalist from Lintern@ute who prepared a video showing Catherine Muller realizing the special arrangement.


Catherine Muller floral art school : For any information about the floral art lessons, programs, etc., don't hesitate to contact us : send us an e-mail !

You can now have access to our online calendar !

You can easily register to the floral art courses by e-mail !

Charles François for Catherine Muller
http://www.catherine-muller.fr
The Floral Designer Catherine Muller Official Website
And The Catherine Muller Flower School Official Website
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Catherine Muller Flower School : Wedding in a castle in France















Last September, we have moved into the French country to prepare the decoration for a special wedding. We prepared many decorations : the castle, the church and the dining room. We have had the pleasure to welcome some of the Catherine Muller Flower School's students on this workshop !




















Inside the church, we worked on the white color, recreating an atmosphere of purity and wildness together. One of the difficulties in this kind of works is to create a special arrangement in such a enormous volume, without being too much invasive. You have to be humble and discreet in a certain way, to respect the atmosphere of the wedding celebration, without being insignificant.















We recreated the idea of wildness with the impact of the garden style arrangement of Catherine Muller. In front of the altar, a green wild forest of arums, hydrangeas, roses and orchids has naturally grown up on the floor.
















The candelabras we have prepared for the dining were all different and unforgettable : we have prepared more than 20 different themes, all about fruits and vegetables. The result was so beautiful and amazing ! Congratulations to Ayleen, Seung-Ju and Kimmy ! These days are such a great souvenir for us !
















Romanesco Cabbage !















Little Peas !




















Red Radis !



















White Cabbage !
And so many many other amazing ideas of the floral designer Catherine Muller...





Catherine Muller floral art school : For any information about the floral art lessons, programs, etc., don't hesitate to contact us : send us an e-mail !

You can now have access to our online calendar !

You can easily register to the floral art courses by e-mail !

Charles François for Catherine Muller
http://www.catherine-muller.fr
The Floral Designer Catherine Muller Official Website
And The Catherine Muller Flower School Official Website
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Flower School Catherine Muller : Floral Decoration for Baccarat, in Four Season's Hotel George V


A few weeks ago , we had the pleasure to be in charge of the decoration of a table for Baccarat, at the occasion of a salon inside Hotel Four Season's Georges V in Paris. It was so nice to decorate such a beautiful place ! The tableware on the table was so refined ! Everybody from the flower school Catherine Muller was really excited ! !


We had to build a decoration adapted to the style of Baccarat's tableware and glassware on the table. Catherine Muller has selected very precious flowers in the Paris flower market of Rungis : beautiful paphyopedilum, roses Avalanche, viburnum and ferns.


The floral designer Catherine Muller explained this to all students : One of the difficulties of this floral creation is to create a garden style atmosphere, something very natural, on a very precious, bright and luxurious table. Moreover, the floral arrangement has to be remarkable, but not too much invasive on the table : the flowers are just here to finalize the beauty of the table and not to take the leading role.


Deeper on this special salon called "Les coulisses du mariage" where you can find some of the most prestigious providers for the weddings in France, Catherine Muller had her own stand. The floral designer Catherine Muller decorated her stand with a totally different style, something more graphical.

She explained that she likes to keep a certain harmony of the whole salon's floral decoration, that's why the two creations are linked : same essential colors, and a few reminders in the selection of some of the flowers. The stand's arrangement was a kind of reflection of the first one, with a fresh work on transparency inside the water and in the air.



Charles FRANCOIS,
for Catherine Muller.

Catherine Muller floral art school : For any information about the floral art lessons, programs, etc., don't hesitate to contact us : send us an e-mail !
You can now have access to our online calendar !
You can easily register to the floral art courses by e-mail !
The Floral Designer Catherine Muller Official Website
And The Catherine Muller Flower School Official Website


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