Introducing Presence — Esse's weekly floral subscription for Atlanta businesses
Every week. Your space. Designed around your brand — not a template. Starting from $200.
There's a moment that happens in certain rooms — a coffee shop, a restaurant, a boutique hotel lobby — where you walk in and something registers before you can name it. The place feels considered. Thought-about. Like someone made decisions here with intention.
It's almost never the big things. It's usually the small ones. The lighting. The music. And — more often than people admit — the flowers on the counter.
We started noticing it from inside the design process. As a floral studio that works on weddings, events, and corporate productions, we've spent years watching a well-chosen arrangement change the feeling of a room before a single guest sits down. The right flowers in the right space do something that's hard to articulate but immediately felt.
We built Presence because Atlanta's best spaces deserve that feeling every week — not just on event days.
What Presence actually is
Presence is Esse's weekly ambient floral subscription for Atlanta restaurants, cafes, boutique hotels, retail boutiques, creative offices, and hospitality spaces. Three tiers. Weekly or bi-weekly delivery. All designed, delivered, and maintained by our team.
The distinction that matters: this isn't a commercial floral drop-off service. Commercial drop-offs bring the same arrangement every week, sized to a standard, designed by nobody in particular. You've seen them. They're fine in the way that beige is fine — technically adequate, never memorable.
Presence starts with a conversation about your space — what it looks like, what it feels like, what palette you're working with, what you want guests to carry away from the experience of being in it. We design around what's actually there. The arrangements change with the seasons, evolve with your direction, and feel like they've always been part of the room. Because once we've been coming for a few months, they have been.
“The right flowers in the right space say something before anyone opens their mouth. They tell your guests this room was thought about.”
We own and maintain the vessels. We handle every swap-out. We adjust direction as the seasons change and as your menu, events, or aesthetic evolves. Your team manages nothing. The space just always looks like this.
Three tiers — one subscription.
Presence is designed to fit the scale of your space and the ambition of your environment. Start where it makes sense. Grow the programme as the relationship develops.
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Best For
Coffee shops, salons, small boutiques1 seasonal arrangement, vessel provided and maintained, monthly palette check-in, Esse card with every delivery
What's Included
1 seasonal arrangement, vessel provided and maintained, monthly palette check-in, Esse card with every delivery
Price
$200/week
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Best For
Boutique hotels, restaurants, creative offices
What’s Included
Up to 3 coordinated arrangements, quarterly seasonal refresh, priority holiday scheduling, monthly co-tagged Instagram content
Price
$400/week
or $700 bi-weekly -
Best For
Full venue hotels, restaurants, corporate campuses
What’s Included
5+ arrangements across the full venue, bespoke brand palette, 2 seasonal installations/year, monthly co-branded content, event florals at subscription rate
Price
$700+/week
custom quoted
All tiers require a 3-month minimum. Pause or cancel with 30 days notice. Estate retainer agreements are available quarterly from $4,500 or annually from $15,000. A 30% deposit starts the program.
Why it works for your space
It creates content that creates itself. Guests photograph beautiful environments. Every considered arrangement in your space is a potential Instagram moment — for your account and for theirs. For the Full and Estate tiers, we co-tag your account monthly when we photograph the arrangements in situ. Your flowers work for you long after delivery day.
It makes the whole environment feel considered. There's a reason hospitality professionals talk about "the full sensory experience." Florals are part of it — one of the few design elements that changes weekly, signals freshness, and carries a fragrance that changes the way a room feels the moment you walk in. A space that always looks this thoughtful is a space people come back to.
It's entirely hands-off for your team. You have enough to manage. We source, design, deliver, swap out, and maintain. The only thing your front-of-house team does is enjoy the compliments.
It grows with the relationship. Presence · Essential is the starting point. Once we know your space — the light, the palette, the rhythm of your week — the work gets better and the program can expand. Estate clients also receive preferential pricing on all Esse for Business event packages when a production or corporate event comes up.
How it works — start to finish.
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In person, over the phone, or by email. We learn about your space, your palette, your aesthetic direction, and what you want guests to feel when they walk in. That's genuinely all we need to get started.
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We come in, look at the space, and build a palette and placement plan specific to your environment. Not a standard arrangement dropped in — a design built for your room, your brand, and the feeling you're already working toward.
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Every Tuesday or Wednesday we arrive with fresh arrangements, swap out the previous week, refresh the vessels, and leave. No briefing required. No logistics for your team.
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Once a month we photograph the arrangements in your space and post, tagging your account. Your guests see Esse in your room. Our followers see your room. Both audiences grow.
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Quarterly we update the design direction. What works in October doesn't work in April — and a space that looks seasonally current always feels more alive than one that doesn't. One monthly check-in keeps the direction right.
The free pilot — two weeks, no commitment.
We want you to see Presence in your space before you decide anything. So for every new Presence account, we offer a free 2-week pilot — two weekly deliveries at no charge, designed specifically for your environment, so you can see exactly what the arrangements look like in your room before signing anything.
Who Presence is for
We built Presence specifically for Atlanta spaces with a strong visual identity and an audience that pays attention to details. The kinds of places where the environment is part of the product — not just the backdrop.
If you run a restaurant, cafe, boutique hotel, independent retail boutique, salon, wellness studio, or creative co-working space in Atlanta — and you've ever looked at your space and thought it needs something — Presence is the answer to that.
We're queer-owned, community-rooted, and intentional about the work we take on. We don't do generic. We don't do last-minute. We show up with a point of view and we design around the room we're actually in. That's not a brand statement — it's just how we work.
If you're interested in bringing Presence to your space — or if you want to start with the free 2-week pilot — reach out directly. The conversation takes fifteen minutes and the flowers show up the following week.
