A place born from Anthea Studio's aspiration to bring together multiple art forms into a single artistic project in the heart of Rome, the ancient and historic city home to a multitude of artists who, through their diverse works, convey their know-how and creative genius. Founded by Damiana Ferrari and Emanuela Agostino, this florist special travels all the way to Italy.
The Founders Behind Anthea Studio Italy
Anthea Studio was born from a shared artistic sensitivity and a deep connection to the emotional language of flowers. Founded in 2016 by Damiana Ferrari and Emanuela Agostino, the studio brings together years of international floral education, artistic exploration, and a vision of floral design that moves beyond decoration into expression, symbolism, and storytelling. Through their work, both founders have developed a distinct creative approach based on nature, contemporary art, movement, and the poetic relationship between flowers and human emotion.
Based on a philosophy that values experimentation, individuality, and sustainability, Anthea Studio has become a space where floral art is explored as an immersive and personal practice. Drawing inspiration from disciplines such as Ikebana, Land Art, painting, music, and theater, Damiana and Emanuela create compositions that seek balance, texture, color, and emotional depth. Alongside their floral creations, education remains a central part of the studio’s identity, guiding students toward discovering their own creative language while fostering a more intuitive and meaningful connection with flowers and nature.
Damiana Ferrari
Damiana Ferrari’s name, inspired by a medicinal plant, reflects her deep connection with nature and the natural world. Born into an artistic family, she explored various creative disciplines, including art, counseling, theater, and dance, before graduating from the International School of Floral Design. Throughout her career, she has also participated in workshops with floral art teachers in cities such as New York, Moscow, Singapore, and Basel, experiences that further enriched her artistic and technical approach to floral design.
Her compositional work is characterized by a symbolic language that integrates diverse floral techniques, allowing each element within a design to convey emotion and meaning. For the designer, every floral composition becomes a form of dialogue and an intimate way of communicating emotions and human connection. Through a holistic approach to teaching, she encourages students to discover their own creative daimon while exploring color, texture, movement, and form.
Within her classes, music plays an important role in creating a welcoming and inspiring atmosphere. She strongly believes in experimentation and in nurturing the individuality of each artist, using compositional techniques as a foundation for developing authentic and poetic creative expression. Her work draws inspiration from contemporary art, floral and figurative techniques, and especially Ikebana, the art form she feels most connected to, representing the balance between heaven and earth and symbolizing both the delicacy and strength of life.
Land Art is also one of her greatest passions, offering her new ways to explore expression through nature and its intensity. As Co-Founder of Anthea Studio, Damiana combines her passion for education with the creation of floral designs, shaping artistic experiences while supporting students in developing compositions that reflect their own unique vision.
Emanuela Agostino
Emanuela Agostino’s journey into floral art began gradually, although her connection with flowers was present from an early age. As a child, she already imagined a life surrounded by nature and blooms, but transforming that passion into a profession became a long and deeply formative process.
From the age of six, she would collect flowers and leaves on spring afternoons while walking home from school, carefully observing them to later draw and paint them. That early fascination slowly evolved into a deeper artistic exploration. After high school and while beginning university studies, she enrolled in a basic floral art course, an experience that completely shifted her perspective and confirmed that floral design would become her path.
This realization led her into years of study and specialization. She first attended EDFA, where she dedicated four years to studying the history of floral art across different historical periods, followed by advanced studies at the Peter Hesse International School of Floral Design, participating in programs in Moscow, Singapore, Basel, and New York.
In 2016, together with Damiana Ferrari, she co-founded Anthea Studio. Through flowers, Emanuela expresses emotions, using them as a bridge between inner feelings and visual expression. The color, movement, shape, and natural elegance of flowers continually inspire her floral compositions. For her, no flower is ever identical to another, just as no emotion or artistic creation can ever truly be repeated.
For years, she has actively supported the #nofloralfoam movement, embracing seasonality and sustainable floral techniques. Her work focuses on creating botanical and natural compositions that respect the inherent movement and posture of each flower. Color plays a central role within her artistic process and often becomes the starting point of every composition. Inspired by Claude Monet’s words: 'Color is my daily obsession, my joy, and my torment', she views floral art as a way to navigate and express the countless emotional nuances that define the human experience.
Studio Anthea
Anthea Studio was born from the desire to bring together different forms of art within a single creative space in the heart of Rome, a city historically shaped by artists and cultural expression. Conceived as both a studio and a collaborative environment, the project reflects a vision where floral design, art, education, and creativity coexist and continuously inspire one another.
The space welcomes creatives, artisans, photographers, botanists, ceramists, and artists from different disciplines, who regularly host workshops, classes, exhibitions, and artistic gatherings designed to share knowledge, techniques, and creative perspectives.
Workshops and classes in the studio
Spanning 80 square meters, the studio was designed as a neutral yet versatile environment capable of adapting to a wide variety of artistic concepts and experiences. Anthea Studio can be rented for independent projects, events, workshops, or creative productions, while also offering the possibility of developing ideas collaboratively with the studio itself. In these cases, Anthea Studio supports both the creative development and the promotion of the experience through its website and social media platforms, helping transform each project into a shared artistic journey.
To see more of their wonderful designs, visit Anthea Studio's Instagram.
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