the Sam Jackson College Experience

New York is the second biggest source of visitors to the site (by city or state) and I thought I would share this nice article that was in the New York Post about a very good family friend, Lynn Jawitz, who also happens to be a very good florist!

Lynn Jawitz lives in a striking home a 19th-century Upper East Side townhouse that she lovingly restored, winning an interior design award in the process. The designs she’s best known for, though, emerge from a studio in the basement, where she creates lush, distinctive floral arrangements that have earned her a reputation as one of the city’s top flower designers, and grace luxe weddings and other high-style events from the Rainbow Room to Le Bernardin.

A law school graduate and a former stockbroker, Jawitz started her business, Florisan, five years ago, after learning the ropes from master floral-design teachers at Parson’s School of Design. She’s one of the few designers around who uses the technique of “wiring” each blossom – a painstaking process that involves removing the stem and adding a miniature hydrating reservoir that keeps blossoms fresh long after others would have wilted.

I have seen Lynn at work and have also seen the final results and both are amazing! She’s also just all around really awesome and nice and has known me since before I was born : )

So, yeah. Lynn does really, really, beautiful flower arrangements… pity that article only has one picture! For more, check out the Florisan website. These all look even more amazing in person and the way that these are done, with that wiring technique, really does make a huge difference. It’s just stunningly beautiful and they last forever! At least, they do with silk flowers. They last quite a while with real blooms.