Flower Carpet :: Unbelievable..

Every two years, the Grand Place in Brussels is decorated with over 700,000 “Begonias” that are arranged into a beautiful carpet design. The design of the carpet to be made is prepared in advance and later the entire thing only takes four hours to execute. Unbelievable.

Officially, the first Floral Carpet as its present-day form was created in 1971 on the Grand-Place by the landscape architect E. Stautemans. Stautemans, who was born in Zottegem, and graduated from the Ghent Horticultural College, had been experimenting since the early 50's making simple small carpets, more like rugs, mainly consisting of begonias but realized that floral carpets would be an excellent vehicle for the promotion of his beloved begonias which he had always worked with, both technically, economically and aesthetically.

After years of attempts and calculations, this architect, who was inventive and imaginative, and knew how to make the most of the numerous resources of begonias, became an expert in the creation of superb floral carpets with sophisticated colors and complicated designs.
His fame spread and he was asked to make carpets not only in Belgium but worldwide (Cologne, Hamburg, Luxemburg, Paris, London, Breda, Amsterdam, The Hague, Vienna, Valencia, and as far afield as Buenos Aires and Colombus, Ohio).

Some of these carpets were bigger than the ones created in Brussels (77 x 24 m), like the 1973 masterpiece at Sint-Pietersplein, Ghent that reached a gigantic 164 x 42 m. However, as E. Stautemas himself says, "Nowhere is the carpet more beautiful and distinguished than in the unique, ancient surroundings of the Grand-Place in Brussels".

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Link>>

http://www.flowercarpet.be/frdernanne.htm

The Fourteenth magnificent Flower Carpet is to be made at Grand-Place of Brussels in 2010. The invitation is already online for the Weekend of the 13th to the 15th of August 2010.

Invitation Link>>

http://www.flowercarpet.be/site/main.php?lg=en&otm=3&mtm=1&hst=_01&pg=141

 

So who is taking the flight to Brussels to see the 2010 Flower Carpet..