Rittners Floral School Facilities

The Rittners School of Floral Design is located in the Back Bay which is one of the nicest residential neighborhoods of Boston, near public transportation, shopping centers, theaters, museums, libraries and all of the conveniences.

We are proud of our facilities which are both functional and quite elegant. Our facility is fully equipped with a large contemporary floral design laboratory, lecture room, stock rooms and floral refrigeration. Our lecture hall is state of the art with both slide projection and video facilities. We offer specialized floral library facilities that form very unique and comprehensive resources for our students, and alumni. The benefit to you is that when you attend Rittners School of Floral Design, you can be assured that you are learning in a well established and specialized facility that can be more effective in its floral art education programs because it has a large number of learning resources.

Educational Media

At Rittners we have pioneered the use of instructional technology in the teaching of floral art. A unique collection of over 10,000 slides and videos are used extensively to illustrate lectures in our day course. These materials are used not to replace, but as a supplement to our live presentations. Click here to learn more about educational technologies used at Rittners Floral School.

Floral School Library

Our specialized Floral School Library contains over 4,000 volumes which may be consulted on the premises. These deal with floral designing and allied subjects. Click here to learn more about our library.

Floral Supply, Giftware and Display Resource File

The school maintains a comprehensive file of catalogs and descriptive literature of over 400 importers and manufacturers of floral supplies, gifts, and display fixtures.

Faculty Development Library

In addition to being skilled floral designers, the faculty of the Rittners School of Floral Design are also professional educators. As such we take pride in keeping up to date in the latest educational techniques, and applying them in our training. The faculty maintains a growing library of over 1000 microfiche documents and books in the field of education and design and receives a number of professional journals.

Slide/Tape Floral Design Library

A recent addition to our resources is a new slide/tape library featuring over 15,000 slides produced in-house with synchronized narration providing a comprehensive library of step-by-step instruction in over 500 different floral designs. The subjects range from topiaries, to coordinated groupings to holiday floral art and more! This is quite a unique resource to which we are planning to add in the years to come.

Floral Industry Resource File

Our school has been around for a half a century, and so we have accumulated all kinds of articles, fugitive documents, etc. about floral designing and flower shop management. Our Floral Industry Resource File is a comprehensive file/database and contains many thousands of documents covering over 1000 floral industry subjects.

Container Library

Our school maintains an outstanding collection of hundreds of unusual containers and bases of varied sizes, shapes and styles which add enormously to the breadth and dimension of our teaching.