Fernando Laposse created a flower garden for Maison Perrier-Jouët at Design Miami 2023

Perrier-Jouët  collaborated with Fernando Laposse to interpret its Art Nouveau values with a Design Miami 2023 installation titled ‘The Pollination Dance’, celebrating the role of flowers and the process of pollination in global ecosystems. For this new project, Laposse invited viewers to pause and observe nature, guided by the role of the flower within global ecosystems. The inspiration came from two elements that caught his attention during his first visit to Epernay, Perrier-Jouët's historic home. 'They have introduced permaculture fields, which include flowers and other local plants placed among the vineyards,' he explained, noting it was a normal practice centuries ago, which was lost in recent times until the champagne house reintroduced it. Laposse observed how this placed the vineyard at the centre of an ecosystem, with bees and other insects interacting with the vines. He was also attracted by the cellars, concealing over ten kilometres of bottles, which he describes as 'bottled time'. As a result of this inspiration, he wanted to capture the moment of the pollination, 'the joy I saw in the fields, insects going crazy for nectar and pollen, and the passage of time marked by seasons, contained in the Perrier-Jouët champagne'.

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