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| Pham Ngoc Vy, business development director of Flower Town Company, takes a vase of hand-made wooden flowers - Photo: My Tran |
Flower Town Company makes amazingly realistic flowers out of wood to sell as decorations for houses and offices.
Pham Ngoc Vy, business development director, one of three founders of the company was born in Dalat, the city of flowers and mist.
“My childhood memories of Dalat are of colorful flower gardens, flower shops and flower markets. I think everybody loves flowers and so do I,” Vy said.
He also said he chose to use wood to make the flowers because it is a natural material and it is different.
Each flower is handmade. The petals are carved, dyed, bent and joined to make the finished blossom on a stem. Then they are placed in vases with dried flowers and leaves. It’s hard to tell the real from the artificial. So the job requires artisans to be much dexerous, patient and hard-working as each product takes them a couple of days or some weeks, even a month. “When I heard about flowers made of wood, I thought they would be very rough and unrealistic. But when I saw them I was surprised by how real and supple they looked,” said Tran Thi Tuyet Nhung, a customer.
The company makes flowers that are grown in Dalat City such as rose, lilly, daisy and gerbera. A vase of flowers is priced from VND120,000 to VND3 million, so there is something to suit everybody’s purse.
The company also sells oil paintings decorated with dried flowers.
The Flower Town is located at 49 Vo Thi Sau, HCMC’s District 3. Flower Town wooden flowers are also available at 216, Phan Dang Luu Street, HCMC’s Binh Thanh District, Sky Garden Apartment in Nguyen Van Linh Street, HCMC’s District 7 and 8 Nguyen Trung Truc Street in HCMC’s District 1.
