Hollyhock House presented Flowers for Aline, a special exhibition of 45 fresh-flower works by the Sogetsu Ikebana Los Angeles Branch. With dynamic arrangements featuring spring’s finest blooms, the installation transformed Frank Lloyd Wright’s “garden house,” designed in 1921 for the visionary arts patron Aline Barnsdall, who gifted the landmark site to the people of Los Angeles nearly a century ago.
The exhibition, curated by Hollyhock House director Abbey Chamberlain Brach and architect and ikebana artist Ravi GuneWardena, featured expressive arrangements both inside and out—activating terraces gardens, spilling from cast concrete planter boxes, and responding to Wright’s artful interiors. For the first time since the site’s 2022 reopening, the child’s bedroom was on view as part of this special exhibition with six ikebana works in this space alone.
On Saturday, April 20, 2-4 pm, four high-ranking Sogetsu masters and selected students presented ikebana demonstrations free to the public in the Barnsdall Gallery Theatre. Demonstrations by Marilyn Drageset, Yumiko Inoue, Chiyoko Chasin, Tony Shum, Mikayo Arao, Keiko Miyahara, Haruko Takeichi, and Kaz Kitajima.