I’ve worked with Julian George and The Future Plate for a number of years, but their four-year celebration dinner in December 2025 was something different. It was the event where they finally raised a glass in their own space — the newly opened Test Kitchen at Somerset House, designed with Conran & Partners, and the first permanent home The Future Plate has had. For a dinner that marked four years of building something genuinely important for Black chefs in this country, I wanted the flowers to match the moment: considered, confident and clean. Paperwhites were the obvious choice. One variety, massed in varying heights and depths down the length of the table, their star-shaped blooms catching the light from the Conran lamps alongside. The scent alone made the room.