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Pillows  are Adam & Viktoria’s love language!

A well designed room and an elegant outfit have more in common than one might think. Both start with a foundation  of timeless handcrafted materials with a sharp focus on graceful proportions and finish with a handful of striking accessories.

A quiet statement that speaks of je ne sais quoi and understated sophistication.

Bring one home to display your favorite garment, scarf or treasured jewelry.

In my shop, I arrange and rearrange the art objects that form the curated collection of my business.

In my flower shed, I store all my creativitiy.

My spaces are a place to gather, a place where beauty and simple pleasures of life come together.

Because I’m a stylist, I create table settings in my greenhouse where I showcase dried blooms with the poetic hand-made objects created by the European artists I represent.

Vibrant red …..always!

Like fashion, flowers have their seasons.  Like fashion, they fascinate me

A fleeting moment, blossoming into a lasting memory, while the real flower, vibrant and alive, ultimately withers away, reminding us that beauty can be both preserved and ephemeral.

I love to slip off into the world of dress-up with my femme and French flower mannequins. It’s ridiculously fun!

Everything I design is an ode to my beloved Paris, which is where I began my floral fashion journey.

Merci, my City of Lights!

Stylist, flower farmer, floral creator, I am the founder of the international styling business that bears my name and of Jo’s Farms, my lavender flower farm in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

A lifelong lover of France, I began creating a collection of home-décor artists from around the world in 1997. My artists and I have been featured in numerous publications, including Vogue and The New York Times.

I have always loved  flowers, and my second career, as a creator of dried-flower sculptures on vintage mannequins, came into bloom two years ago.

I developed an appreciation for living with handmade, so it’s not a surprise that my shop, greenhouse, flower shed and home where I meet ( by appointment ) with clients are thoughtfully filled with a rotating inventory of unique objects.

I hunt for anything I love but also with my clients in mind.

How do you select the objects you showcase?

My niche has always been sourcing one-of-a-kind items that will “make a room sing,” or comprise the perfect tablescape. My inventory ranges from French sculptor Marie Christophe’s wondrous wire creations and textiles from Holland, Sweden, London, Amsterdam,  and one-off collections from Europe, no longer in production.

Pretty Pairs Paired!

I love the idea of  mixing and matching (think of what’s in your closet!), and Adam & Viktoria’s velvet-touch pillows make it easy to dress and refresh every room in the house to suit your mood as well as the season. The beautiful Ombre Tribe Galliano Java Brown  velvet pillows are so beautiful in this space!

The more you move them around, the more fun they become!

In my shop, greenhouse and home, I create living stage sets to give my clients a better visual of how these artist-crafted hand-selected items – lighting, rugs, floor screens, textiles, cushions and dinnerware – will look and feel when they take up residence in their own spaces.

The idea of showcasing items this way goes back to 2004 when I exhibited them in New York City’s Chelsea Hotel, which is where everyone from Andy Warhol and Allen Ginsberg to Madonna and Leonard Cohen used to hang out.

In my greenhouse, I sow seeds in the winter, store my plants and create my arrangements and floral sculptures.

How did you get started in your career?

My story begins in France and with a life-long passion to share the beauty of the French savior faire via hand-crafted objets d’art, textiles, beauty and, of course, flowers.

I founded the Lisa Fontanarosa Collection, a source for unusually beautiful objects, lighting, sculpture and accents for the home in 1997.  I grew up traveling to Europe with my parents, which inspired my love of travel, design, food and handcrafted objects from Europe.

Marie Christophe’s latest sunny yellow Picasso-esque sculpture puts a smile on spring.

Think beach bathing, lemonade in a tall glass and taxis waiting to transport you straight to the boutiques of Paris.

Growing up Italian, the table always was and still is the chaos of beautiful things  and emotions .. the food and the decoration.

This is one  of my favorite restaurants in Sicily

Bruno Frisoni, and his partner, Herve Van Der Straeten, asked Marie Christophe to jazz up their really hot house in Tangier, Morocco with some of her custom lanterns and wall sconces.

The two lanterns  created — one studded with ivory ceramics shown here and the other in ebony — play off each other like piano keys.