Sip Champagne Under This Fairy-Tale Upside-Down Meadow in a London Bar

To celebrate the Chelsea Flower Show, London’s horticultural event of the year, the hip, design-conscious food, art, and music venue Sketch has invited four floral designers to festoon the interiors of its 1779 building with an enchanting installation it’s calling the Mayfair Flower Show (after the name of its neighborhood).

Sketch is a collaboration between restaurateur Mourad Mazouz and three-Michelin-starred chef Pierre Gagnaire, who are as dedicated to food and drink as they are to showcasing art and design. For this ephemeral event, the Flower Appreciation Society, By Appointment Only Design, Carly Rogers Flowers, and JamJar Flowers transformed several spaces in the historic townhouse—once the seat of the Royal Society of British Architects, as well as the London atelier of Christian Dior—into dreamy floral landscapes paved with British plants and flowers. 

By Appointment Only Design decorated a stairway as an homage to the romanticism of Victorian fairy paintings. The Flower Appreciation Society turned the building entrance into a lush overgrown “hinterland.”

But the most intoxicating installation is in the Champagne Pommery Lounge (top), named after the event sponsor. With its beguiling canopy of flowers, it’s the kind of ridiculously beautiful and romantic setting that one can only imagine looks even better after a few glasses of bubbly. Sketch describes the installation, which is up until Sunday, as “an enchanted forest, a suspended garden, an upside down meadow, a retreat at the heart of the show.”