In homes, offices, clubs, hospitals, at airports or on the rooftops, renovations are giving new life to structures. They improve function, contemporaryize design and make spaces ready for the future. Yet, as each of the 30 explorations has shown, renovations alone are not enough to humanise a place. Flowers do what walls and lights can not do, they bring softness, spirit and a living pulse to every corner of a renewal.
In the bedroom, jasmine-filled and softened by the night, a hospital made light with sunflowers of hope, or a city rooftop transformed into a flowered sky garden, flowers will always work hand in hand with any kind of renovations to create an emotional tone. They guide movement in boutiques, enhance cultural storytelling in museums and calm down travelers in airports. They create memories at weddings, enhance luxury at spas and bring class to unexpected spots such as sports lounges.
The lesson is obvious: renovations are the definition of structure, but flowers are the definition of experience. They link people not only to spaces, but also to themselves, but also to one another. A building can be taller after renovation, but it is only after flowers that we are reminded of growth, of fragility and beauty.
Area of thought: When we dream of the future of renovation we do not ask only what we shall put there, but how we shall give in to nature and permit nature to have its way with us in those walls. Shall we create spaces which do well, or spaces which run with life? The answer to this, as always, lies in the flowers.