Real Anthuriums Cost $20 a Stem, So May We Suggest aFauxAnthurium?
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We would argue that, of all flowers, the anthurium — the heart-shaped flower that became especially popular this year and can be seen everywhere from Glossier’s New York showroom toFKA Twigs’s earlobe— is the perfect candidate for buyingfauxinstead of fresh. It’s a waxy, vaguely suggestive bloom that costs some $20 per fresh stem, and looks fake to begin with, which is kind of part of its appeal: The alien anthurium will always look more at home in a tin canFreakebanaarrangement than it would in, say, a Masonjarof wildflowers.
In the last couple of months, two major retailers began sellingfauxanthurium stems. West Elm teamed up with cool New York floristMetaflora, whose clients include Lower East Side restaurant Dimes, Rachel Comey, and Creatures of the Wind, to create a plastic and iron wire bouquet of three gradient anthuriums arranged in front of a giant, splayed palm leaf. The anthuriumbouquetis one of fivefauxbouquets that Metaflora designed for the retailer: There’s also afauxorchid and palm arrangement, one with banana leaves and protea, another with dried red banksia and ostrich feathers, and a fifth with brown banksia and wheat and tufts of grass. For something simpler (and less expensive), Urban Outfitters is selling three bright-red anthurium stems for $15. They’re slightly less realistic-looking, which, in this case, doesn’t matter much at all.
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Some other excellent non-anthuriumfauxflowers
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A banana leaf, and a very realistic-looking protea.
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We like the pretty speckled feathers.
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