Meet Kara Admire Connor Jordan | Floral Architects

We had the good fortune of connecting with Kara Admire Connor Jordan and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Kara Admire, what was your thought process behind starting your own business?
Our backgrounds are both creative. While Kara has been a florist in Arkansas for over a decade, she’s also worked as an event planner and done marketing work. Connor has a graphic design and branding background and is deeply interested in experiential design. We both are also attracted to a challenge. Those paths led us to pursue an education in Architecture and Planning in Denver.

We met each other for the first time outside our Studio 1 instructors office where we both had questions about the project we were assigned. In discussing our questions, we found that we both were there for the same reason. We were obsessed with the details. How could we get a cleaner drawing? Sharper lines? How could we improve our overall composition? Are there design elements we haven’t considered yet? Our chance meeting outside the office lead to a conversation that lasted hours that day and hasn’t stopped in the almost 5 years since. We began discussing opening a design firm together. Not just for architecture, but for anything and everything that interested us. Signs, furniture, lights, jewelry, homes, spaces, buildings, landscapes, environments, school curriculums, the list goes on.

As we finished Architecture school, we began to see a hole in the market. We knew we could deliver a higher quality floral product with design and structure unmatched by anyone currently in the market. So we began focusing heavily on opening the floral design firm. Given our backgrounds, we knew we could quickly make an impact in the market and thus set our sights on making it happen.

Once we decided to open our own business, it all came together pretty quickly. We found a great space on Broadway, signed a lease and after renovating the space ourselves, we had our Grand Opening just two months later. We’re only just getting started, though. We are developing number of additional ideas we can’t wait to launch in the near future

Can you open up a bit about your work and career? We’re big fans and we’d love for our community to learn more about your work.
We’d love to dig in a little bit more and talk about what it means to marry architecture and floral design. Our education and our experience allows us to look at wedding and event design through a more complete lens. We don’t simply arrange flowers for our clients, we help them design a complete experience. Through hierarchy, we can guide guests eyes as they arrive. We design the order in which they will see things as they enter a room. We design moments of interaction between guests, moments of pause, through design we can impact how quickly or slowly guests might walk through a space.

When it comes to weddings and events, we have the ability to build our own structures to apply flowers in ways and places that might be unimaginable to our clients. This level of knowledge also gives us the ability to express ourselves in studio sessions, building out structures and designs that offer extremely unique experiences to people we work with and prospective clients.

We can create 3D models and renderings of what our designs will look like. We can use materials and manufacturing processes that most other florists don’t have the ability or skill to use. It allows us to curate a highly specific vision for an event and to own the creative design behind it. Everything from signs, to small furniture, light fixtures, art, decorations, backdrops, installations, and beyond are elements that we personally design and manufacture. Our ability to create so many of the visual elements gives us the ability to design an event that is cohesive through and through, nothing feels out of place.

However, floral design is just one of the many way we can express our creativity and design but we don’t limit ourselves to just flowers. Our experience made opening a flower shop the logical first step, but it’s just the beginning of our creative enterprise.

Let’s say your best friend was visiting the area and you wanted to show them the best time ever. Where would you take them? Give us a little itinerary – say it was a week long trip, where would you eat, drink, visit, hang out, etc.
If anyone comes to visit us, they can expect to do something that might spark creativity. Whether is walking through downtown and talking about decisions that architects made in regards to materials, context, composition, etc. Perhaps it’s a museum, or a thrift store – anywhere that’s going to have something interesting, designs old or new, that give us something to talk about, something to analyze, something to inspire us.

The Shoutout series is all about recognizing that our success and where we are in life is at least somewhat thanks to the efforts, support, mentorship, love and encouragement of others. So is there someone that you want to dedicate your shoutout to?
We want to say thank you to our family and close friends for the encouragement and support. Without them, this journey would have been much more difficult.

Website: www.karakarablooms.com

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Stephany Parsley