Neptune Fountain
Darling & Daughters
Maria Darling Young & Whitney Satra
2022 installation
1st Floor - Winter Garden
The Inspiration
This 1899 bronze fountain statue, titled Young Neptune Fighting the Monsters of the Deep, was sculpted by Italian artist Adolfo Apolloni and cast in Rome.
The Flowers
Florist’s inspiration: Inspired by the ancient varied concepts of Neptune as the seaborne marriage of heaven and earth through celestial powers, we've melded components that honor the water meeting the earth - the space in which Neptune would have left his battle victorious. Dried and fresh botanics include sea thistle, sea star fern, and the wild bridges of botanics that flourish on the edge of the sea - drawing power from the mysterious in-between-place that the sea god may have found respite.
THE DESIGNER
Maria Darling Young & Whitney Satra
Darling & Daughters
MARIA comes from a long line of women who had a way with the paintbrush, and found that she didn't at all - not even a bit, so she studied history instead, fell in love with food and foraged flowers in the Midwestern lowlands, and began designing full time with her own studio and garden practice in 2013. With her daughter in her arms, she signed D&D into existence in 2015 and has been rearing both ever since.
WHITNEY hails from the prairie wilds of Montana and found her passion in operations, rising quickly in DC’s service industry over the past decade. Once Darling & Daughters entered its sixth year, Whitney joined the business and brought a refined knowledge of event systems, her (true) love for the many thousands of organizational details, and dedication to seamless communication with our clients and event partners.
OUR PRACTICE From budding spring through the last gasps of autumn, we source the majority of our flowers from local and sustainable growers and believe in a women-led community where sustainable growers and designers thrive together. We design with reverence for natural elegance and inimitable colors inspired by the season at hand; we cut from our studio garden and forage local delicacies to offer deliciously textured and nuanced designs for large scale events and petite local deliveries alike. Our work has been published in many national and local publications, and we are proud to enter our seventh year in 2022, still and forever loving on the wild ones.
PHOTOGRAPHED BY
Costola Photography
Andie Ingagliato started her career as a fine art portrait photographer in 2008. Her passion for gorgeous imagery began with studies in classical music and theater which led to her receiving a BFA in photography and film from one of the top art programs in the nation: Virginia Commonwealth University. Her wedding and portraiture work has been featured in Style Me Pretty, Washingtonian Weddings, The Knot, Martha Stewart Weddings and acknowledged by fashion designers, including Draper James. Her characteristic style combines romance and editorial perspective with authenticity. She is uniquely gifted with bringing a sense of finesse into everything she touches while making it seem completely effortless. After fifteen years capturing weddings and families during the most precious times of their lives, she can truly say that this is exactly where she is meant to be. When she isn't photographing weddings, Andie enjoys the outdoors alongside her husband, Tony and daughter, Ava.
