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    FRANCESCA DI MATTIO Recent Vases

    Mar 15, 2019 4 minutes
    Photographs ROBERT BREDVAD
    Art Direction
    CHARLOTTE STRICK
    Flowers
    SPROUT HOME
    —
    Major Jackson

    ON ROMANCE AND FRANCESCA DIMATTIO’S VASES

    In the early days of our long-distance courtship, just before Didi landed at Burlington International, often on the last, late-evening flight from Orlando, I would dash into Price Chopper for flowers. I’d run past blueberries and navel oranges, past the guy restocking Keurig pods and teas, with the desperate look of a man fighting against the clock, the ceiling’s bright glare adding a sheen of drama to my quest.

    Among the few remaining bunches fading in their cellophane cones, the roses struck me as too pedestrian. The white and pink lilies, the mauve orchids,

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