Dear Diane and Dear Shaded Viewers,
140.000 tulips (all planted by hand) bloomed on time this week at the opening of an amazing installation in Cothen (central Holland) in a landscape otherwise populated by sleepy cows.
This is the collaboration of master florist and interior designer Menno Kroon & Ronald van der Hilst, the artist and landscape gardener based in Antwerp. The exposition will continue Saturday & Sunday May 1st and 2nd. Then the tulips will fade and only reappear next April.
Falling Drop Tulip Garden by Ronald van der Hilst (60.000 white tulips & one renegade organge bulb)
Installation of still life photographs by Michael James O'Brien and Marcel Vissers' collection of Italian Opalina vases (ca. 1970)
Large ceramic pots designed by Ronald van der Hilst for Mobach (the 100 year old Dutch cermaic company)
Modern version of a traditional tulip vase by Ronald van der Hilst for Mobach
Suspended tulip garden by Menno Kroon
Tulips eye view of the house of Menno Kroon
For more info: info@mennokroon.nl, hilst@pandora.be or www.michaeljamesobrien.com
