Welcome to TigerFlower. We are based out of Tiger Lily Flowers and Encke Flowers in Teaneck, New Jersey (right across the George Washington Bridge from NYC). Tiger Lily is a new shop with a new concept - merging innovation in floral design (or floral sculpture) with a commitment to Fair Trade and environmental sustainability. (This is the attitude part of "Flowers with an Attitude.") You can find us on the web at: http://www.tigerlilyflowershop.net/ and at http://www.enckeflorist.com/.
We are first and foremost artists, coming to the trade out of different design backgrounds (fashion and graphic design). We come to flowers with a sculptural sensibility but we also understand the importance of helping people celebrate their lives' great events and rites of passage. We are privileged to participate in our community's customs, their celebrations, courtships and reconciliations, illnesses and mourning. We genuinely enjoy the role we play in our customers' lives, however fleeting or tangential. It has become a rare thing for artists to enjoy this kind of daily direct role in such intimate rituals. It's not "retail". We're not just part of some abstraction called the "service sector." We dig it. It's got a different kind of glow altogether.
We are first and foremost artists, coming to the trade out of different design backgrounds (fashion and graphic design). We come to flowers with a sculptural sensibility but we also understand the importance of helping people celebrate their lives' great events and rites of passage. We are privileged to participate in our community's customs, their celebrations, courtships and reconciliations, illnesses and mourning. We genuinely enjoy the role we play in our customers' lives, however fleeting or tangential. It has become a rare thing for artists to enjoy this kind of daily direct role in such intimate rituals. It's not "retail". We're not just part of some abstraction called the "service sector." We dig it. It's got a different kind of glow altogether.
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