Frédéric Dupré - Contestant for France
This is all you want to know about the paleontology dropout who turned to become a horticultural savant, a floristry champion, and a floral mentor.
Dupré's career
Dupré’s career spans more than two decades and interweaves landscaping knowledge, horticultural expertise, floral design pedagogy, and pursuit of floral aesthetic and its evolution. His path to becoming a renowned floral designer was anything but conventional. More like a botany-inspired Bildungsroman, his story tells of a journey—from digging up fossilized fragments to working with flowers in the floral segment—that reveals a man who, now, treats plants and flowers—in designs—not just as simplistic materials but, rather, as animate accessories in a piece of work with nature.
Inspiration From the World Around Us
When asked to describe his style, Dupré admits to finding it a bit difficult to put an exact finger on it. He describes himself as insatiably curious, drawing inspiration from a wide range of sources. His designs, therefore, resist easy classification. They are neither purely architectural nor entirely wild, but rather a negotiation between ‘control and surrender’. This tension, likely, springs from his twofold training: the landscaper’s eye for structure and the horticulturist’s reverence for organic growth.
Full article on Thursd
The full article about Frédéric's story is available and accesible for free on the Thursd website.
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