Direction 3 — Sanctuary
AMMI Atelier
A composition of preserved burgundy cosmos, orchid umbels and amber seed heads in a stone vessel on raw concrete, lit by low morning sun.

Aspen, Colorado

Composed to be kept.

A dried and preserved floral studio. Colorado wildflowers, gathered and hand-dried, composed by many hands into pieces that hold their season indefinitely.

The position

Not a flower shop. A sanctuary. A studio.
Alicia, founder
Hands trimming a dried burgundy cosmos stem with steel snips over aged linen.

On the name

Hundreds of small blooms, one form.

Ammi majus grows almost everywhere and is noticed almost nowhere. Alicia first truly saw it on the coast of Corsica, on the trip that became this studio. In the language of flowers it means sanctuary and refuge.

Inside the studio

The collection

Composed, one at a time.

Nine pieces from the current season. Every arrangement is made by hand, so no two are identical — stem counts, heights and tones shift with what the meadows gave us.

See all nine pieces

The way we work

The Three Silences

I

Intention

Every piece is composed with purpose, not habit. The empty space is decided as carefully as the stems.

II

Imperfection

Nothing in nature is symmetrical. We preserve at the peak, the way a memory is held carefully rather than frozen.

III

Community

Made by many hands working in quiet concert — women who come to work, create and be present alongside one another.

A large architectural composition of preserved botanicals in a stone urn in a pared-back plaster room.

Trade & partnerships

For rooms that are lived in for a long time.

We compose at scale for boutique hotels, event and wedding planners, corporate gifting programmes and interior designers — installations that hold for years rather than days.

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Everything here was alive once, and still is, differently.

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