Lewis Miller of Lewis Miller Design, event designer to the uber rich, famous and powerful in NYC has accidentally become one of the year's recycle and share the joy heroes.A bit over a year ago, despite his spectacularly successful business, Miller was beginning to feel a bit like he needed to give something back. Somewhere in his soul he wanted to do something for all NYC that reflected the same feel of extravagant parties he threw for his professional clients.
And so the Flower Flash came to be and Miller became the Flower Bandit. How it works is that Miller literally takes his team out in the middle of the night and creates a floral installation on a random corner in NYC.Usually, but not always, in a trash can.Over the past year, Miller and his team have done a flower installation on average every two weeks, all in NYC, except one in LA. Sometimes the installations are Lewis' own flowers and other times, flowers are recycled from client events.The flowers in the pic above are from a Hulu event, makers of The Handmaid's Tale. After the event, the team took the flowers right out there to the street and re-installed them for the next New York morning.
Most of the installations are in trash cans and only last a few hours as people come to admire the installations and take flowers with them.
Last May, Miller gave the Fernando Botero cat outside the Crosby Street Hotel, a mohawk for the Met Gala and to honour Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons. Miller and his team turned the cat into what Lewis described as an avant garde skunk to honour Kawabuko's work and style.