No. VI · Anniversary keepsake · Lyon
Herbierpetals
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A collage suite of torn letters, antique maps and petals pressed the summer before — an invitation that reads like a found archive.
The family gave us a box: letters from 1912, a torn map of the village, receipts, a postmark. We used all of it.
Roses from the couple's own garden were pressed in July and tipped in behind translucent vellum so they never touch a finger.
Sixty compositions, sixty different arrangements — the only fixed element is the word Souvenir, letterpressed in the same place on every card.
“Nothing here was designed to look old. It simply is.”
Specification
- Client
- Élise & Lucien, 50 years
- Year
- 2025
- Paper
- Archive fragments, vellum, sage rag
- Technique
- Collage · pressed botanicals
- Pieces
- 60 unique compositions
Materials
- — Archive paper 1912
- — Pressed garden roses
- — Glassine & vellum
In the detail
Macro of a pressed petal and vellum layered over aged handwritten paper.
Photographed in the workshop