The thirty-three-year-old Atlanta floral designer Shean Strong attributes his love of flowers to his stylish grandmother, whom he visited often as a child at her home in Florida. “We decorated for every holiday together,” Strong recalls. “I would help her set the table for dinner parties, and flowers were always a part of that.”
And even though Strong thought he was headed in the direction of a medical career, with a biochemistry major in college, a single weekend spent arranging flowers for a friend’s wedding changed all that. In 2017 he founded his firm, and hasn’t looked back—except to uncover yet more family connections to flowers. “When I started my business, my grandmother told me how my great-grandmother owned a flower shop in Florida, to my surprise,” Strong says. “I thought this was my own forged path, but I’m now even more invested in flowers, knowing they are a part of my lineage.”
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