Royal Academy

Botanical Masquerade & Mastery

Royal Academy is a collection shaped by the golden age of flower hunters, botanical illustrators, and early naturalists. Inspired by herbarium folios and museum specimens, these pieces treat each bloom as something to be observed, understood, and preserved.

Informed by a lineage of botanical preservation and specimen collection, this body of work echoes the spirit of ancestral greenhouses and teaching gardens — where each bloom was studied not only for beauty, but for truth.

A traveling naturalist from a bygone age — trained in the classics but seduced by wild discovery. Her works are field notes, pressed proof, and floral theater — part lecture, part love letter.

Pieces are laid out like scientific folios or herbarium plates, with air between elements and intentional visual hierarchy. These are not bouquets. These are botanical artifacts of the floral mind.