In November 1928, a Mayfair floral display created a furore. Two years prior, the heritage perfumer Atkinsons London had commissioned architect Vincent Harris to erect its flagship, a towering edifice ...

This review of This Dark Country: Women Artists, Still Life and Intimacy in the Early Twentieth Century appeared in the October 2021 issue of Apollo.

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Belfast-born floral designer and writer Shane Connolly has long been passionate about how a 20th century pioneering florist turned arranging into an art form. That passion is now a reality with the ...

A play about the superstar of floristry, Constance Spry, can be expected to look gorgeous. The Arts Theatre production of Anton Burge's new play, Storm in a Flower Vase, is classically elegant with ...

In the early 1900s, enigmatic Englishwoman Constance Spry, a young health lecturer, travelled the Irish countryside in a caravan preaching hygiene and sanitation to poor families. Cheery “Connie” in ...

For 30 years until her death in 1960, Constance Spry was the society florist choice with her arrangements being part of many Royal occasions. A Storm in a Flower Vase is a new play inspired by her ...

I know, I know, it really wouldn't be a royal cookbook without this so-called regal "classic," officially known as Poulet Reine Elizabeth. It was created in 1953 by Constance Spry and Rosemary Hume ...