"budding
- business

_. THEY MET ina restaurant. He
introduced himself. They began
o chat. He designed solariums. :
She wanted to,open a flower
shop. It was a perfect match.
By Layne Christensen “

- Community Reporter

“He is’ Paris Pourdad.: She is

Christine Smith: The.result of their “

chance, meeting one year ago is

“Flora, a free-standing gift and flower ”

“shop.:in.the- concourse of Park
Royal's north mall.

Pourdad is no, stranger to design.
“Before moving to West Vancouver
three years ago he worked in London |
. designing grand solariums and gaze-
bos: for private homes and wrought-

dron “furniture for commercial busi-

“nesses.

:Formerly a marketing ‘director for

Cadillac” Fairview, — owners of

»-Mancouver's Pacific Centre, Smith is

- no stranger to shopping malls. She is:
a newcomer to the flower business,’

though.’ and her reasons for opening
-, the’shop are purely selfish. -

“T reaily love’ fresh-cut flowers.

Vand beautiful things. | love glass and

flowers’ and it came from that” she.

“says.

‘shop, Pourdad’s design, is modelled
aftera'solarium..The framework is
wrought i iron and cast aluminum.

Though budget’ considerations
quashed initial plans. of building the...

*: structure in mahogany, the pair are,
appy with the resuits. .-

And ‘so’ too, it seems, are the
many mail shoppers -who stop to
Compliment them on the design and
inquire about its creator. >
P= As‘a result, Pourdad has: picked

p a few commissions for solarium

design and Smith has also expanded . :

_her. shop’s: merchandise, to include
“more of the designer's work. A A pop-
ular ‘gift item‘is’ Pourdad’s three-
ronged::
olds the handbfown -lily-like vases

f, Washington glass. artist ‘Robert...

For Smith, on n the other hand, this. :
Oint endeavor is a career change. *

- Flora was .. opened : in May. ‘The «.

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