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From today, Apple devotees in London will see this ethos realised to full effect, where the tech giant has taken over all 24 of Selfridges’ iconic windows with a blossoming floral installation that brings the Apple Watch to life.

Here, a range of blooming flowers were photographed in stop-motion, with some flowers requiring more than 24,000 shots over 285 hours. For the windows, all eight variations of flowers have been scaled and hand-painted by artists, the sculpting process as equally painstaking and meticulous as the original photography.

The ambitious installation comprises a remarkable 24 large, 50 medium and 5,525 small flowers, plus 240 slightly larger ‘small-plus’ flowers, each created via different methods. For example, the large and medium flowers were crafted from cast resin, while the smaller components were 3D printed.

Since Selfridges’ first launched its window displays in 1909 (a recreation of scenes from paintings by Antoine Watteau and Jean-Honoré Fragonard), it’s the first and only time all of its windows have been dedicated to one product.

Selfridges creative director Linda Hewson adds: ‘Collaborating with Apple on such a large scale creative project continues our well-established tradition of inviting outstanding designers with a unique point of view to curate displays within our stores.’

In many ways, the blossoming installation could not be a more fitting tribute to Apple’s game-changing product; from something small, great beauty grows.

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