Lee Hyunju’s love story with plants began when she was working as a book editor. "Providing pictures for books about nature and ecology was part of my job" she explains. "I used to go to the mountains by myself to observe wild flowers and take photos of them. It was so much fun that, little by little, I took interest in cultivated species, too. So, when I decided I wanted to work on my own and express my creativity, floral design was a natural choice." After a two-year course in South Korea, she completed her studies in London, at the London Flower School, and in 2018 she launched her atelier in Paju, a very inspiring city as it’s surrounded by low mountains and rivers. She called the studio Mugu, which means “pure in nature without any decorations”.
Lee Hyunju