BUDDING GENIUS
May 13, 2021
4 minutes
Photography IRINA BOERSMA CÉSAR MACHADO
Set design
TABLEAU
Writer
TF CHAN
Once home to prehistoric sharks, crocodiles and an expansive coral reef, the Faxe Kalkbrud limestone quarry, in eastern Denmark, is today distinguished by its pristine pools, unclouded by plankton and mirroring the hues of the chalk cliffs and skies above. Floral designer Julius Værnes Iversen chose the quarry as the backdrop for the shoot on these pages, playing off his vivid blooms and avant garde design pieces against the quarry’s primordial, earthy features.
Iversen is the founder of Tableau, a Copenhagen-based multidisciplinary design studio that uses flowers as its primary medium and thrives on material
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