Nobilis

A collection close to nature, crafted on beige cardboard, with striations of good quality, using only bay laurel or myrtle leaves. Nobilis’ collection appeals to the universal truth of our feelings, expressing the purity of love, the persistence of feelings, honor, and the connection between people and their homes. Plants of the elites, laurel and myrtles, were intensely used in ancient times and bring us the flavor of nature. Because of its elegance of habit, appealing odor, and amenity to clipping by the topiarius, as much as for sacred associations, the myrtle was an indispensable feature of Roman gardens. As a reminder of home, it will have been introduced wherever Roman elites were settled, even in areas of the Mediterranean Basin where it was not already endemic: “the Romans… must surely have attempted to establish a shrub so closely associated with their mythology and tradition”.

In Greek mythology and ritual the myrtle was sacred to the goddesses Aphrodite and also Demeter: Artemidorus asserts that in interpreting dreams “a myrtle garland signifies the same as an olive garland, except that it is especially auspicious for farmers because of Demeter and for women because of Aphrodite. For the plant is sacred to both goddesses.