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WILLOW CROSSLEY’S 20TH-CENTURY WEDGWOOD VASES

PORTRAIT OF AN ANTIQUE

I spend a lot of my life hunting for vases. I find there are soprized ones are out on display so I can stare at them, lovingly, all day long. I work on lots of events, none of which is fiver the same as the last, so I always need a huge range of shapes and sizes of vase. Bud vases are the ones I have most of; I love a single stem bud vase for large, decorative, show-off dahlias. For huge, showstopper arrangements, I love ginger jars; their narrow necks and wide bottoms create beautifully shaped arrangements.

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