Keeppley's Red Rose Florist is a City Corner model built from 329 blocks, measuring 19.8 Γ 8.8 Γ 7.9 cm assembled. Printed instructions included. Age 6+.
A florist is mostly a refrigerator
The shop you see is the small part. Behind or below almost every florist is a cold room held at around 2 to 4 degrees, and it is the single largest piece of equipment in the business.
The reason is that a cut flower is still alive and still using itself up. Cold slows everything down β respiration, water loss, the production of ethylene, the gas that ripens fruit and makes petals drop. A rose kept at four degrees lasts several times as long as the same rose in a warm shop.
Which is why the flowers on display are not the stock. They are the shop window; the stock is in the cold and comes out as needed. A florist who displays everything is a florist throwing away a third of it.
The other half of the job is knowing which flowers cannot be stored together. Fruit and some flowers give off ethylene, and a few blooms are so sensitive to it that a bowl of apples in the same room will finish them.
Eleven shops that make a street
City Corner sets are designed to stand shoulder to shoulder β narrow shopfronts around 18 to 20 cm tall with flat side walls. A run of four or five becomes a terrace, and reads as a place in a way one building never does.
The others are the dessert house (C0101), cafΓ© (C0102), cosmetics store (C0103), fashion store (C0105), bookshop (C0107), teddy store (C0109), luxury store (C0110) and styling hall (C0111).
Specifications
Pieces: 329 Β· Series: Keeppley City Corner Β· Printed instructions Β· Age: 6+
Model dimensions: 19.8 Γ 8.8 Γ 7.9 cm (7.8 Γ 3.5 Γ 3.1 in)
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