Kris Van Assche is out to make flower arranging more modern, more poetic — and a little disruptive.
His new collection for Belgian homewares specialist Serax includes glass poppies and orchids that will never wilt; long silver-plated glass tubes to water and exalt a single stem, and vases in such unusual materials as concrete, marble and silver-plated porcelain.
Just launched on serax.com, The Josephine Collection proves that the unexpected elements that often sparked Van Assche’s menswear designs for Berluti and Dior — tribal tattoo motifs one season, punk badges the next — can also apply to vessels.
To be sure, the Belgian designer brought almost a lifetime of flower-arranging appreciation to the project, named after his late grandmother and…