Suspended Tulip Installation
A suspended installation works differently from anything built on a base — instead of holding a shape, you’re holding hundreds of stems in the air and letting gravity do part of the design for you. This hanging installation used white tulips and parrot tulips, strung individually from a ceiling rig so they hang just above eye level, catching movement every time someone walks past. It was built for a private commission, and it’s one of the pieces that best shows what floral art looks like when it leaves the vase entirely.
The Brief: A Private Commission
The client wanted something that would fill the space above a run of windows without sitting on any surface — no urn, no plinth, nothing visible holding it up. That’s the appeal of a hanging installation: the mechanics disappear into thread, and all that’s left to see is the flowers themselves, suspended mid-air.
White Tulips and Parrot Tulips, in Motion
Each stem was hung individually — white tulips for the base layer, parrot tulips worked through for their ruffled, irregular petals, which break up the line and give the whole piece texture instead of a flat wall of green and white. Tulips keep growing after they’re cut, curving and reaching even once they’re hanging, so the installation never sits completely still. That slow, ongoing movement is part of the design, not an accident of it.
How Do You Hang a Floral Installation From the Ceiling?
The short answer: individually, and with patience. Every stem gets its own line rather than being clustered, which is what allows the piece to read as a soft, continuous canopy instead of a series of bunches. The rig has to be planned before a single flower goes up — spacing, drop height, and how the piece will look from underneath as well as from across the room, since a suspended installation gets seen from every angle a grounded one never has to account for.
Floral Art in Berlin, Built to Move
This is the kind of floral artistry I keep coming back to — installations that don’t just occupy a space but change how people move through it. Suspended work is slower to build than a grounded arrangement and less forgiving of mistakes, since every stem is visible from below. But it’s also the format that gets closest to what I mean when I say floral art rather than floral arrangement.
If you’re picturing something like this for a space of your own, I take on commissions for hanging and suspended installations —
get in touch to talk through a floral installation.
