Dutch fashion designer turned artisanal baker Natasja Sadi is flourishing in her second career
An arrangement of flowers and sugar flowers in Delftware vases. Photo: Natasja Sadi Natasja Sadi’s ravishing Instagram account overflows with photographs of the lush floral bouquets she creates every week after visiting the flower market near her family’s canal house in Amsterdam. Her arrangements resemble heady 18th-century Flemish still-life masterpieces, but hers are not painted — rather, they are arranged over the kitchen sink and photographed on the kitchen table.
The kitchen sink full of flowers. Photo: Natasja Sadi Sadi uses her bounty of fresh flowers to inspire the creation of her sugar flowers, seen here in her kitchen. Each flower petal is crafted by hand — the finished dusty-pink rose in the upper left corner took a full day to make. Photo: Natasja Sadi Sadi at work. Photo: Michael van Heusden Sadi designed bridal dresses for 20 years before she pivoted to creating floral sugar treasures.
A field of Sadi’s sugar flowers perched on top of a bookshelf at home. Sadi only began photographing her creations for Instagram roughly three years ago. “I never knew it would become what it has,” she says. “Most of the flowers are edible, technically, but they are really meant for decoration — and to enjoy even after the wedding or celebration.” Photo: Natasja Sadi Sadi’s house is the tallest one in the middle.
Sadi’s husband, Michael van Heusden, originally bought the top two floors of the canal house in the early 1980s, when, as Sadi says, “Amsterdam wasn’t as fancy as it is now.” He did the initial renovation with the architect Hans Witt. The stairs pictured here lead from Sadi and van Heusden’s kitchen/living room up to the roof terrace. The painting, by van Heusden’s grandfather, is of his grandmother.
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