Paul Lange’s Iconic ‘Big Blooms’ Honor Exceptional Women

Read on to learn which architect this photograph is named for.

Annabelle, 2022. This Big Bloom is inspired by Annabelle Selldorf, renowned architect and designer to cultural institutions and galleries worldwide. She is also the architect selected to design the new permanent home for the Shaker Museum in Chatham, New York. Photograph by Paul Lange

Legendary fashion and fine art photographer, Paul Lange, has created Big Blooms to honor exceptional women. His goal is to establish a symbiosis between a flower image and the achievements of the person who inspired it. Viewers are invited to look closely at beauty in nature in order to appreciate the qualities of the woman it represents.

The blooms are sourced by famed Manhattan florist Zezé and his wife Peggy from their bucolic farm and garden estate in upstate New York.

“Pink with a touch of lavender shimmering like silk; a regal tree peony and one of my favorite flowers in Zezé’s garden.”

–Paul Lange says of Annabelle, 2022

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