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Former Fendi designer Dylan Tripp opens doors to his new floral studio
Dylan Tripp’s Roman floral design studio
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Former Fendi designer Dylan Tripp opens doors to his new floral studio

The floral designer’s new studio space in Rome is a stone's throw from Piazza Farnese and Campo de' Fiori.

by Nitija Immanuel
Published on : Oct 22, 2021

Having previously worked as a fashion designer for Valentino and Fendi, and a parenthesis as a talent scout for the artistic residences of Paraphernalia - one of the first concept stores in the capital, the forty-year-old Roman of American origins Dylan Tripp, has decided to devote himself to his passion for the floral world.

The interiors of Dylan Tripp’s newly opened floral design studio in Rome

The designer, who has made a profession out of his passion for flowers over the years, has recently opened his new studio which is a stone's throw from Piazza Farnese and Campo de' Fiori, in an area where the workshops and ateliers of the artisans of a time, including basket-makers, carpenters and lutari, coexist with the ancient noble palaces and with more contemporary quality boutiques. The flower designer has set up his showroom in what used to be a women's tailor's shop. “I wanted my lab to become a simple box but with character, where flowers could be the real protagonists. A minimal setting, with walls left in gray plaster, with a rough and slightly brutalist texture, embellished with an L-shaped baseboard in untreated brass. I was curious to see the oxidation of the nineteenth century and the progressive signs of time,” says the Roman flower designer.

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Floral arrangement at Dylan Tripp's floral studio

At the rear end of the studio he created two full-height sliding panels, by way of a theatrical backdrop, to emphasise the scenographic aspect of my work. This was achieved while keeping the furniture simple and functional, with modular iron furniture and Thonet wooden stools. “I wanted a flexible space, ready to welcome the participants of the many floral workshops that I organize and easily adaptable to the different themes I face with my work,” he says.

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Floral designer Dylan Tripp in his new studio

A cool space dedicated to the storage and conservation of flowers, chosen purely by local growers on the basis of seasonality, with an eye always attentive to the theme of sustainability. A space in constant evolution, in which Tripp's creative activity combines that linked to training, with a series of courses that follow the flowering of the seasons and that blend lifestyle, history of art and flower couture. Anthurium, allium, coral peonies, clone buttercups, monstera leaves changed in colour, anemones, English rose branches, hydrangeas, mulacella, are just some of the species kept in the floral abacus set up in the basement.

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Dylan Tripp's Floral Design Studio

For inspiration, the designer loves taking brief walks at dawn in the wholesale flower market in Trionfale on Tuesdays: it is a moment of pure contemplation, of collecting suggestions that will be translated into his creations over the course of the week. “What I love about my job is the possibility to experiment. The flower is something so ancestral and symbolic that it can be lent to a thousand interpretations and fields. Floral design has to do with many aspects that I love: with nature, beauty, design, colour, craftsmanship, and meditation. I like to mix all these aspects into my work,” shares Dylan.

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Floral arrangements at Dylan Tripp Studio

Tripp has recently presented a programme of classes dedicated to his passion for the floral world. Next up is a floral class called “Oh My Dahlia” in Treviso on October 9th, 2021 at Zia Nina Flower Farm, a place where floral cultivation and nature meet. Participants will be able to pick flowers such as dahlias, zinnias, celosias directly from the cultivated fields and greenhouses. While on 23 and 24 October 2021, on the hills of Fiesole (Florence) at the Pensione Bencistà - a small hotel decharme, Dylan Tripp will present his first floral retreat with moments of foraging in the surrounding countryside, convivial moments in local trattorias and a day of composition with the flowers collected during the previous day. A new programme of floral retreat will be launched in Spring 2022.

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Floral arrangements at Dylan Tripp Studio

Dylan Tripp has numerous collaborations with fashion brands such as Fendi for which he has been responsible for the floral arrangement of Fendi Headquarters in Rome since 2015, Sergio Rossi and the stylist Marco De Vincenzo; but also with companies linked to the world of design by Mutaforma for which he designed Anthemion, a capsule collection of interior micro-mosaics, in Ginori 1735 of which he directed the floral shooting of the Oriente Italiano collection up to the new The Hoxton, Rome. He has also participated in numerous events, curating fashion shows and floral walls for single-brand stores, and was the protagonist of the installation Rome-A / Rome, a reflection linked to the capital on the third landscape by Gilles Clément for Cantiere Galli Design, and the floral design of Semina, the exhibition by designer Sara Ricciardi for Ceramiche Rometti held at the new Contemporary Cluster in Rome.

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