PULSE; Bouquets By Way of Machete(2011/10/10)
   Gerber daisies and wheat grass have had their day in the sun. The floral pick of the month: bamboo. At a party this month for Men's Journal at Milk Studios, bamboo trees were used as decorative screens, while hollow pieces of the bamboo stalk served as vases on tables .
   At the Donna Karan store in London, 12-foot stalks were recently suspended from the ceiling to create a giant wind chime.
   David Stark, a founder of Avi Adler Flowers, says the current popularity of bamboo has come about, in part, because ''tropical flowers are very hot now -- and bamboo complements them.'' Mr. Stark, who designed the Men's Journal party, also integrated bamboo in a wedding tent this month, wrapping stalks around tent poles and grouping the trees in groves in corners.
   "But the trend isn't confined to large-scale use. A flower designer, Glen Craig, of Craig & Company, has recently been bombarded for his Lucky Bamboo arrangement: several bamboo stalks in a glass cylinder with river rocks and water, sometimes rimmed with flowers ($50 to $100, depending on the size; to order: 212-924-2447). ''It goes along with the whole yoga, Feng Shui, Buddha beads craze,'' Mr. Craig said. ''In its own way, bamboo is very Zen.''
   Like bamboo, faux bamboo was introduced to the West via the China trade in the 18th century. (The Chinese have been making faux-bamboo furniture since at least the Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644.) By the time Western trade with Japan began in the 1850's, the appetite for exotic Oriental furniture was at its height. It was featured in international expositions and immediately copied by manufacturers in England and France.
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