De eerste resultaten van designer Mara Verbena op dag 1 van het Europees Kampioenschap 2016 in Genua.

It 's always great to work with Italian spring flowers. They have an intensity of colors and a quality that allow me to create works of great durability and high impact.

I prepared a structure that represents a series of very colorful gift packages where the staple will be made with the flowers, the leaves and the green will be the filling in a large basket of cane that has been realized with the support of an old craftsman, on the model that was used in the Sanremo market up to 20/30 years ago to pack and ship the flowers.
The effect will be to a large amount of parcels that fly away because the belt which supports all it is unfastened.
The floral wagons of Sanremo to whom we must inspire, deliver wonder and amazement  to their vision and amazement  will have to create the vision of these colorful and flowered packs flying from the roof of the “Fiat 500”

This Fiat 500 represents the travels from south to north and vice versa with gift parcels that emigrants used to carry as a gift to their in the years 50/60.
Small cars with above disproportionate loads and piled usually bound with belts and ropes. I dedicate this work to my friend Ugo, experienced trucker from the 50 ', who used to wound up the world on its Fiat 500...

an iron rod and slate, known worldwide as the board has been used in the structure
that will support the 7 elements of pesto (garlic, basil, Sardinian cheese and parmesan cheese, salt and pine nuts and olive oil).

The setting takes into account a didascalic way of the proposed themes but represented in dreamlike and bucolic way, distorting perspectives and proportions:

the column becomes the tree that gives shade to the banquet, the palms become the branches,
ingredients for pesto are the lifeblood, the slate scales are the mountains. All in a spring and strongly Ligurian landscape. The Mezzaro is the cloth used for picnics, typical of Liguria, has as its main drawing the tree of life, it comes to Genoa with the East India Company and is used in furnishing
the great palaces. Today is used to cover sofas, beds and as tablecloths.

I represented the spring using the heart of the palm, an important element of the Passover with which, by ancient tradition, you create "Parmè" on Palm Sunday, another typical Ligurian flora flower is the hellebore "Francis" dedicated to Pope Francis, than buttercups and daisies will be the colorful flowers, crocus and heather plants make more rustic effect. Criptomeria, Santorina and Timo as typical fronds.

On my Pic Nic I imagine to be with my father Renato who did the woodcutter / charcoal burner in those hills ...
where watching the port, he tells me about Bruno and Venerina, my in-laws who, like many other citizens of San Marino from Genoa in those years embarked for America.
I dedicate this work to my father Renato, who did a wonderful pesto ...

First, the technique of construction of the bouquet itself, where only the wire
It is to support the ability of the florist with some concession to the use of chromaticism and glue.
Combined with two big flowers pins to fix the hairstyle of hair whipped by the wind.

The cattleya as the main flower, much in use at that time white, to signify elegance and wealth, lilac today in homage to the colors that makes the work romantic and contemporary.

No structure, simply an underwired Bouquet and the selection of items that can withstand being transported on a Vespa.
The cattleya are small and less delicate petal of the ancient ones.
Together with the sinuous and flowing shape that surrounds the hand and partially arm and that creates a sinuous line and sagging on the hand of the bride and the user can easily move with elegance.
I dedicate this work to my Mom Jole which is always recommended to be sober and elegant ....