Agos Muni, New York
Red Amaranthus & Pinky White Peony
A New York based flower boutique Agos Muni has created a magnificent flower arrangement by using two contrasting flowers for Urbanic. It feels intense and cool like a dark raspberry sorbet with heavy whipped cream on.
Miquel Yatco, the creative director and the owner of Agos Muni delivers visual pleasures with a rich sense of volume and subtle asymmetrical formality. "I get various ideas by observing the growth pattern of coral and mushrooms, and the shape of the branches extending out."
Hope you enjoy this beautiful piece.
M. Agos Muni is in my native language, Tagalog. I thought it would be a great opportunity to have a name that still represents who I am and where I come from without it just being my actual name. “Agos” means flow, or an influx of something, and “Muni” is derived from the word Muni-Muni, which means thoughts or musings. I’ve always felt that arranging flowers is a trail of thoughts being put into a vessel. From the very beginning of conceptualizing to the last flower being placed.
U. Where do you typically draw your inspiration from as a florist?
M. A lot of it comes from nature. I love looking at growth patterns of corals or mushrooms and the shapes that they make when they branch out.
U. What do you consider the most when you're arranging flowers?
M. This is quite a hard question as I consider several things when arranging. It’s like a giant puzzle of different factors, from color, shape, texture and scale of the actual flowers, what vessel they’ll live in, the environment that they will occupy… Ultimately I do find myself obsessing over the shape of the final arrangement— I could spend hours on one arrangement, and in fact, most of the time I do.
U. What's your favorite flower this season?
M. This season, I’ve been really enjoying using Eucalyptus fruits, usually called Gumnuts. They’re not quite flowers, but more of a foliage with clusters that look like seeds. I’ve used them for several of my arrangements lately and I love their sharp leaves with round clusters of woody fruits. It’s a great contrast against flowers that have a bright color, like yellow, orange or fuschia.
