About Babu Blooms · Woodside, New York
Babu Blooms is a Woodside studio and maker community for learning in public, sharing practical skills, and taking flowers seriously—not ourselves.
The studio
We begin with ikebana, then wander into digital tools, 3D printing, fabrication, gatherings, and useful objects. No formal training, portfolio, or perfectly articulated idea is required. Curiosity will do.
We share tools, exchange what we know, and let experiments become arrangements, objects, events, or occasionally a very educational mistake.
The studio team
Portrait included as supporting genealogyCo-founder / Reshoring & inherited gravitas
Naners leads the campaign to revitalize American manufacturing, citing the founding father behind him as both ancestor and mandate. The genealogy remains unverified; the tie does not.
Receiving unscheduled executive feedbackCo-founder / Flowers, tools & avoidable complexity
Sen Babu turns floral ideas into prototypes and prototypes into reasons to acquire another tool. He is building the kind of studio where curiosity matters more than credentials, and is a recognized Junkakan of the Ikenobo school of ikebana.
One drill. Two strongly held opinions.Production Engineering / Jigs, fixtures & disputed measurements
Dougbert and Egbert turn ambitious ideas into jigs, fixtures, and disputes over whose measurement was technically correct. One prototypes, one reviews; neither says which.
Keeping the print farm honestDirector of Manufacturing / Tolerances & suspicious machine noises
Carlito runs manufacturing with the calm authority of someone who knows every machine by sound. To him, tolerances are manners and downtime is personal.
Leading by extremely literal exampleEmployee Wellbeing / Stretching, snacks & one more rep
Buster oversees wellbeing through movement breaks, ambitious spotting, and snacks approved without paperwork. Morale, he maintains, is a muscle.
Removing the last known blockerProgram Manager / Follow-ups & scope containment
Rufus keeps programs moving with notes, follow-ups, and firm boundaries around scope. He has never missed a milestone; several have asked to be rescheduled.
What we get up to
Make beside floral practitioners, artists, and people trying something new.
Use digital workflows, 3D printing, and fabrication to move an idea into physical form.
Hands-on floral and making experiences shaped around the group, occasion, or question.
Spatial work, commissions, and useful objects, developed one careful experiment at a time.
Where this is going
We’re building more ways to gather and make: community applications, studio classes, private events, useful objects, and larger floral installations. The list can grow; the point stays the same: make alongside other people.
