posted May 6, 2011 8:51 AM by Calfolia Admin
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... Want to beautify your cozy nest with exotic or native plants, but you're not able to keep a cactus alive? Or, you love plants so much that you lack only a few specimens in order for your living room to look like a section of the Botanical Garden? A solution exists and it is called "Calfolia", a company specializing in artistic reproductions of plants and trees. When entering the warehouse/showroom of Calfolia, located at 1250 Beaulac, in Saint-Laurent -- it is extremely difficult to recognize art from life. Actually, all the plants in the showroom seems real.
| The only clues -- for us to realize that these plants are not alive -- comes from our olfactory senses.
There is not a fragrance from all the exotic plants and flowers.
Nevertheless, your eyes will love the beauty of these accurate botanical reproductions.
Using real-trunk trees imported from across the planet, Calfolia a recent transplant, foliage and flowers of silk. From small bonsai trees, to more than thirty feet tall coconut trees, Calfolia vegetation includes varieties beyond imagination -- Mexican agave, Brazilian dracenas, or Japanese ghostwood.
| In addition to reproductions of part of the plant world, Calfolia offers its customers a variety of natural preserved plants and trees. Using a technology edge that ensures the conservation of the plant and its natural appearance, this company in Saint-Laurent creates plants to last forever. They do not need water or light. If the models of plants and trees in the showroom do not meet your needs, you can always order your own tailor-made plant. The company provides a term of seven to ten days to produce. by Claudine Hebert Special collaboration, La Presse, 1995 |
posted May 5, 2011 7:59 AM by Calfolia Admin
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Our company, Calfolia, offers a new service: home decoration parties, demonstrating to people what an impact "finishing" really can have.
"Whether large homes, condos or apartments, it's accessible to everyone,"
And, by witnessing the "before" and "after" - much like the home-improvement shows on television -- then homeowners easily see such aspects as: | - how greens subdue a room with many colours,
- how arrangements with movement livens static spaces,
- how respecting the visual line creates harmony.
"It's tremendous what we can do. You have to see it to believe it."
The visual line figures prominently in "finishing", like all rules of proportion, height, width, movement and volume. | When we walk into a room, If an element is below the eye's visual line, the mind registers it as a blank space. There is a feel that something is missing."
All these considerations combine for our surprisingly simple yet innovative approach we use with artificial plants, flowers and trees. |
posted May 5, 2011 7:53 AM by Calfolia Admin
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Here`s a lesson or two for you: "You can make over your home with a few hundred dollars."
"It's about the finishing. People are always walking into a room and saying: 'I have to do something.' Usually they change floors, draperies, tables, something - but they inevitably make the mistake of not realizing that all they really needed is the finishing." | By finishing, we mean flowers, plants and trees - decorative elements that tie everything together in a room.
Whether a plant to balance a long wall, colour to liven up a drab space, maybe a tree to soften that tight, awkward corner, using flowers as elements of home decor - to create focal points or distract the eye - is not new, but we demonstrate that it is affordable, simple and very effective if done by professionals. | Essentially, the perfect arrangement must incorporate everything in that room: colours, styles, angles, everything.
"It's a tall order, if you're not versed in it, but with our longtime floral designers and decorators, it's a five-minute conversation." |
posted May 5, 2011 7:22 AM by Calfolia Admin
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 Here`s a simple tip for everyone buying pots for their plants: "Use the pot as furniture. Simply put, the container for a plant must go with your furnishings, not your decor. Match the pot to the chair or the sofa, not the drapes or the paintings."
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posted May 5, 2011 6:59 AM by Calfolia Admin
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 While fresh flowers are wonderful on your wedding day, or dining-room table during Easter or Passover, for the other 363 days of the year, you need to ask yourself:
"Do you want a hobby or a decoration? With live plants, you'll be watering, cutting, cleaning and transplanting. That's wonderful if you want to do it or have someone do it for you, but if you want a decoration, something to expertly finish your room, then artificial is the way to go."
(Original Article in The Gazette, on February 24, 2010) |
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