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ABOUT
D & D
on ALL that temporal beauty​
or,
how to fall & stay in love with an age-old practice
est. 2016
designs to mark the moment with the season in hand
FLOWERING
& LOVING
WILD THINGS
EVERY
SCENE &
STORY
on the
for
SErving
DC,MD,VA
and beyond
beloved beauty feast
of
the
MARIA DARLING
&
FLOWERS
SO It was the presentation
of the ephemeral -
​
​
​
- deliciously involved & REWARDING TO CREATE for
all sorts of lovers & friends.
FOOD FOR PEACE! CAPTAIN MAL
grew up with a big family by the Potomac with a gentle dad & a storyteller mother.
They would walk down to the forest & riverbank and return with fairylike treasures:
​
old glass &
wasp nests &
hawk feathers sycamore bark bittersweet vine
the
gathered garden cuts & cozy ceramics &
dripping candles &
all the wine &
the best people around a beautiful table that they never want to leave
Maria spent a charmed decade in a beloved midwest &
fell in love with the work of a
chef-muse-soul-sister, who set the table with blueberry branches &
buck antlers before feeding her people
the best food
in the world.
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