Peek Inside a Floral Designer's Artsy, Minimalist Home + Pop-Up Shop

Just 26 years old, Savannah College of Art and Design Atlanta grad Skye Lin was born in China, grew up in Vietnam and is "full-time nostalgic" she muses, of her uprooted circumstance living in America. Her new pop-up floral shop, Pinker Times (open through Sept. 12) next door to Hermès at the hoity-toity Buckhead Village District exemplifies the expat's lyrical, whimsical approach to flowers, beauty and art.

Pinker Times flowers are available for delivery or for purchase on the spot. Or visitors can just spend a little time at Pinker Times admiring the stunning floral display hung from the ceiling, and grooving to an atmospheric soundscape created especially for the shop.

Trained as an artist, Skye is a self-taught designer who never took a floral design class. But the quarantine was all the inspiration she needed to change direction. "In times of separation, people need a way to connect and reconnect. I feel like I am creating this bridge to do so with flowers."

Skye Lin graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta in 2016, but it was the quarantine that pushed her from art and photography into a new phase as a floral designer. "It was a huge rupture. Floral artistry was my attempt to quiet the frustration of being vulnerable to the uncertainty, the doubt and the longing I carried. Pinker Times sprouted out of nothing, or perhaps, crisis."