For most people, the municipal green bins on city street corners are for chucking garbage. But, for Lewis Miller, they’re oversize vases and an ideal canvas for his gargantuan, guerilla-style floral installations that have earned him a reputation as the “Banksy of floral design.”
By day, Miller creates lush, lively arrangements for galas, weddings, and other upscale events at venues across New York, including the New York Public Library and Maidstone Country Club. But by night, Miller and his team work fast to enliven urban streetscapes with flashes of beauty. They’ve been known to quickly jostle and jounce colorful buckets of begonias, carnations, daisies, and roses, nestling stems into garbage cans, throughout construction sites, around statues, and outside of Mister Softee ice cream trucks. Come morning, passersby are so astonished and touched by the unexpected spectacle
