Mandarin Oriental Palace, Luzern

The art company Visto commissioned me to make work for the Mandarin Oriental Palace in Luzern in Switzerland.

This was Visto’s description of my work in their Art Guide:

Reviving older traditions and techniques inspired by direct contact with the environment, Rachel Dein uses live flowers and plants to create plaster artworks. Each work literally preserves nature and also affords the viewer a much more detailed look at the intricacy of each plant. For the Mandarin Oriental Palace Hotel, Luzern, the artist has incorporated Alpine flowers such as denticulata, ipheion, narcissus, pulsatilla, acaulis, mountain freschia, and saxifrage, including both the crocus and primrose for which the meeting rooms are named.
Dein’s (b. 1969, UK) work has its roots in nature printing, which early botanists in the Alps used alongside illustration to record the plants they collected and to share information about newly discovered finds. Dein’s pieces harness this intersection of documentation and art.