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Show ,i i r ' lu, L 4- s Aiai Wai-T v 4, ... . Jim Smedtey Carol Maasberg opened a florist shop at the Park Hotel. Flowers, antiques blossom at Carol's Carol's Floral & Antique is not the usual flower shop. The new addition to the shops in the Park Hotel offers a curious blend of the past with the present. If a patron wants a bouquet of fresh flowers, such as roses or carnations, car-nations, they are available from a walk-in cooler. But Carol's is different dif-ferent in that the proprietor keeps an abundant supply of sprays of dry flowers, weeds, pods, feathers and eucalyptus on hand to integrate into displays using antiques as a base. Carol Maasberg opened her store Nov. 16 on the lobby level of the hotel. She was born and raised in Toyko, Japan. It was there that she studied Ikabana which she described as Japanese floral design in which nothing is displaced as it occurs in nature. She also studied floral arrangement ar-rangement in Wesel, West Germany, Ger-many, before moving to the United States. "It's a fresh, straightforward, simple method of design although it is very disciplined," Maasberg said. Her shop offers a variety of antiques anti-ques ranging from the late 1800s to the early 1900s. . "What I'm trying to achieve is to have people bring antiques in and I'll put arrangements in them," she said. "The older and more broken the things are, the more fun they are to work with." The business, which represents a $35,000 to $40,000 investment, employs three people and is open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., seven days a week. |