LOS ANGELES — Created by Ravi GuneWardena, the installation pays tribute to Aline Barnsdall who gifted the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Hollyhock House to the City of LA in 1927, the same year the Sogetsu School of Ikebana was founded. 

The ikebana (Japanese art of flower arranging) installation is on view until the fall of 2024, following a group show of ikebana called “Flowers for Aline,” 45 original creations by artists from the LA branch of Sogetsu Ikebana.

The exhibition, curated by Hollyhock House director Abbey Chamberlain Brach and Ravi GuneWardena, featured “expressive arrangements both inside and out—activating terraces gardens, spilling from cast concrete planter boxes, and responding to Wright’s artful interiors. For the first time since the site’s 2022 reopening, the child’s bedroom was on view as part of this special exhibition with six ikebana works in this space alone.”

Hollyhock House was designated as Los Angeles’ only UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2019.