A Tasteful Event

Nationalities Service Center – Global Tastes

November 2011

WHYY – Hamilton Center Commons

Flowers and Decor by La Petite Fleur

La Petite Fleur is proud to have cultivated a new relationship with the Nationalities Service Center (NSC) through the organization’s annual Global Tastes event, which honors Philadelphia’s diverse communities through cuisine.

It was a pleasure collaborating with the fundraiser’s production sponsor Dunleavy and Associates to create a garden-inspired flower and décor plan for last week’s event.  In fact, the concept was an outgrowth of NSC’s new South Philly Community Garden and overall mission to provide immigrants and refugees the opportunity to establish roots and for growth.

LPF designed two centerpiece styles: a unique vegetable topiary comprised of greens punctuated by variegated Lady apples and deep magenta radishes for the low-top tables and, an earthy, yet elegant, arrangement of warm, muted-orange roses in a twig-wrapped glass cylinder filled with cranberries for the high-top tables.  The showpiece, however, was the soaring sign-in arrangement, that boasted tiers of brightly-colored vegetables and blooms, which was finished with garden tool accents and red sunflowers.

Many thanks to both the NSC and Dunleavy for inviting La Petite Fleur to participate.  And congratulations to the Nationalities Service Center on its 90^th anniversary and on a scrumptious-showing at this year’s soiree!