Gardens Illustrated Magazine

Ornamental plants

extile artist Lora Avedian has followed a slightly unusual career path, as she started her professional life as a set designer working on fashion and photography shoots. “I was making a lot of paper props and paper flowers. I really enjoyed making these beautiful, natural objects and trying to replicate nature in a different material,” she says. However, after seven years, she eventually tired of making intricate objects that were thrown away following every shoot.

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