Lewis Miller

Born and raised in California farm country, Lewis Miller developed a respect for nature at a very young age. At 18 years old, he moved to Seattle where he studied horticulture and landscape design. After seven years of successfully pursuing his interest in design, flowers and event planning, Lewis moved to New York City in 2000 and launched his own company: LMD New York, Lewis Miller Design in 2002. It quickly became one of the premiere floral design houses in New York City. Miller’s clients include the world’s leading industry professionals in fashion, design, photography, art direction and architecture. Clients include American Express, Dior, Ralph Lauren, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and JP Morgan Chase, just to name a few.  With nearly two decades of experience, LMD has grown into one of the most sought after and well-respected multi-event production houses in the world.

Miller’s stand-out projects include designing the 2024 iconic 30 Rock Channel Gardens and writing his first book published by Rizzoli New York, titled Styling Nature: A Masterful Approach to Floral Arrangement and more recently his book Flower Flash published by Monacelli.

Miller is also the creator of The Flower Flash, street art installations made of fresh-cut flowers. Miller repurposes flowers from events when he can to create pop-up street installations. These floral works of art are created under 30 minutes and typically made before dawn. Miller’s business focuses on flowers and fantasy, transforming key life moments in his client’s lives into magical, everlasting memories. The impetus for the Flower Flashes was to recreate just a sliver of that sentiment and offer it to everyday New Yorkers and the tourists that visit this great city.  His main vision and goal are to create an emotional response through flowers. To brighten and beautify someone’s day and to make them smile, the way one smiles when they witness a random act of kindness. Miller continues to flash New Yorkers with flowers and has flashed in Los Angeles, Miami, Charlottesville, and Nashville. His goal is to continue this work and bring joy and surprise to urban neighborhoods and their city dwellers! To date, Lewis has created over 100 Flower Flashes for New York City.

Miller was featured in Phaidon’s recently published book titled Blooms and The Rose Book, which features the most innovative and contemporary floral artists around the world.