Design in Bloom is Modern In Denver magazine’s signature spring event, which every year reaches capacity and draws 500+ creative professionals and modern enthusiasts together for a night of conversation and celebration. Attendees see nature and design intersect in the hands of Colorado designers and architects, as they create floral displays amidst the most influential in our community. Our proposal for the 2025 submission was entitled Echo, The team was asked to submit a narrative along with the entry that supports and elucidates the story of the piece (below).
Life, for many of us, unfolds in quiet loops—routines so familiar they become the hum beneath our days. They are ordinary, predictable, sometimes dull, yet they hold us. They shape our mornings, our seasons, our years. Even when they shift, the changes tend to echo within a broader rhythm—a higher order of repetition that governs the dance of our lives.
Within these cycles lies something tender: the truth that how we see is ours alone. Perception is not passive; it is chosen, shaped, and worn like a second skin.
Echo is an exploration of that seeing. Of how material and form speak to us—not just once, but over and over again. It is a study in resonance, in the meaning that emerges when something is heard not only once, but again, and again. In myth, Echo was bound to repetition—not her voice, but another’s. Yet here, our Echo becomes something else: not a curse, but a mirror. A chance to revisit the known, and find something entirely new in the familiar.
This is not a story of right or wrong, of beauty or flaw. It is a gentle call to notice—to feel the grace within the mundane, the vulnerability within the structure, the poetry within the pattern. To understand that repetition is not absence of meaning, but an invitation to see more deeply.
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