Record 12 / 15 · VIC
St Vincent’s Hospital Florist
A compact florist where every inch works — floor-to-ceiling glass, pressed tin and a library ladder.
VIC · Hospital retail- Sector
- Hospital retail
- Location
- St Vincent’s Private Hospital, East Melbourne
- State
- VIC
- Completion
- On record
The brief
What the job asked for
At the entry to one of Melbourne’s busiest private hospitals, the florist had a small, challenging footprint and a long list of demands: storage as the headline requirement, display racks visible to the street, a menu board, and a fresh modern finish — every inch had to work.
The site’s gift was light: floor-to-ceiling windows bathing the space, and a vertical volume most tenancies this size never get.
The build
From drawing to trading day
The plan went up instead of out. Storage was built into the vertical, with display cabinetry rising to the top of the room and a custom library ladder on tracks turning high storage into theatre — stock access as a piece of joinery worth watching.
Working with the designers, the material mix keeps the product in front: pressed metal on the counter sides, pine lining boards on the white-clad entry wall, Signorino tiles and a timber-look floor. Natural timber and whites form the backdrop; the flowers supply the colour.
On the record
As built, on the books
The record shows a compact hospital-retail tenancy where the storage brief became the signature move. It carries the custom-joinery service line’s argument in one room: when space is short, joinery is the answer.
Gallery
St Vincent’s Hospital Florist — on site
