Our Meadow Basket, designed for us by Underwater Weaving, is made for gathering stems, grasses, and branches while moving through a landscape. Its upright form supports longer cuttings while keeping materials visible and within reach. The open triangular body prevents bruising delicate forage and allows damp stems to breathe on the walk home. Light enough to carry for hours yet structured enough to stand upright in the field, it’s suited to everything from shoreline reeds to hedgerow trimmings and late-summer seed heads. Available now.
Reliable cutting tools have long accompanied gardeners and naturalists, serving the essential task of harvesting and preparing plant material. In our new collection of tools, we’re pleased to offer our favorite secateurs from Tobisho, crafted in Japan.
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Photo by @maureenme with styling and makeup by @haideefindlaylevin , @reinaldoriveranunez , and @marcoamazonico .
With all three arrangements we’re offering for Mother’s Day, Narcissus takes a front seat—an early spring bulb whose reputation has grown almost as steadily as it does: forever tied to its myth of self-regard, it is in practice less vain than reliable, among the first to arrive in the chilly spring garden. Shop all three arrangements for local pickup this weekend—available now, though not for long. Orders close at noon, May 8th.
In Conversation with Alex Crowder of Field Studies Flora.
Excerpts from a dialogue on seasonality, sourcing, and the art of intervention.
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A studio favorite, Hellebores play a starring role in our three arrangements available online now for Mother’s Day. Known best for their impressive flowering in the cold when few others bother, this plant holds a beautifully complex history of medicine and myth.
Explore your options for local pickup this weekend at @shopquarters online now at fieldstudiesflora.com.
Alongside the three arrangements we’re offering online for Mother’s Day, for more eternal gifting, consider our newly released collection of Tools—from handwoven baskets by Underwater Weaving to Japanese kenzans, and waxed cotton work aprons by Samuel Snider for Field Studies.
This Mother’s Day give the gift of an abundant arrangement by Field Studies, offered in vessels from Quarters. Tend to someone who’s helped you grow by gifting seasonal flora of Dogwood, Hellebore, Narcissus and Lily of the Valley in a vessel from Mori Glass or SB-T Studio.
Limited quantities available in three sizes from $250–$500.
Order online from Field Studies with local pick-up at Quarters on Saturday, May 9. Available now.
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Featured in Field Studies’ collection of tools are four baskets designed by @underwater_weaving for Field Studies for foraging, market gathering, and transporting tools. For florists, they support a mode of working where seasonality and site determine what is gathered. For Underwater Weaving, they extend a lineage of basketry as structural practice. Each is handwoven in Maine from mature rattan, using techniques that prioritize tensile strength, flexibility, and long-term durability—qualities necessary for repeated contact with organic material. Both utilizing basketry as a means of carrying, and of moving through the world with a kind of cultivated attention: gathering not just what is useful, but what insists on being found. Seen here: Alex Crowder of Field Studies Flora in her New York studio, all four baskets, and botanical plates from A Guide to Wildflowers by Alice Lounsberry (1899) depicting species native to Maine.
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Photography by @maureenme and @brentgoldsmith ; videography by @scottmacdonough ; styling by @haideefindlaylevin and @reinaldoriveranunez ; outfit by @rachelcomey ; makeup by @marcoamazonico .
At the core of our tools collection is an interest in attention—how it is directed, and how it can be refined. By encouraging closer observation of what grows nearby, we hope to reconsider assumptions about what is local, what is seasonal, and what is worthy of attention within floral practice. Explore every instrument, available online now.
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Lead image by @billaltaright of Alex cutting in the gardens of her longtime clients and collaborators Robin and Stephen Alesch, the founders of Roman and Williams. Photos 2,3 by @maureenme with generous styling by @haideefindlaylevin@reinaldoriveranunez , and makeup by @marcoamazonico , at the studio in New York.
We’re pleased to debut a collection of objects that support the work of floristry—encouraging the process of collection, preparation, and arrangement, sharpening sensitivity to site and season. Tools influence how we observe, collect, and work, shaping the ideas that unfold for us when working in a pastoral landscape or within our studio in New York City.
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Each object in this collection has been selected not only for its utility, but for the attentiveness it cultivates. Explore them all, available now through the studio store at fieldstudiesflora.com.
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Many brilliant people helped bring this collection to life. A few select thanks in particular to Vogue’s @liamnhess for such an astute conversation about the work we do at Field Studies; to @maureenme and @BrentGoldsmith for their incredible work behind their respective cameras; to @haideefindlaylevin for her generous spirit and thoughtful styling along with @reinaldoriveranunez , to @marcoamazonico for the earthy glow; to @erinjennie of @underwater_weaving and @SamuelSnider for their collaborative spirit; @sarahnatkins for her advice and encouragement; and to those embedded in the root system of our studio, for all they do: @dirtcoveredhands , @daffodilrecords , Ben Lavely, and @ladyfingersfloral .
Some new, useful objects are coming to the studio store this week. Subscribe to stay in the loop. Shown here: pages from Shaker Baskets by Martha Wetherbee and Nathan Taylor (1988), and Chinese Baskets by Berthold Laufer (1874–1934)—two inspired references shared with us by @erinjennie .
