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Travel · August 2026
The Neo-Hokusai Flower Carpet
Thursday 13th August, 2026
Brussels transformed its Grand Place into a 1,300-square-metre floral recreation of Hokusai’s Great Wave, using around 500,000 dahlias. Created to mark 160 years of Belgium–Japan relations, the ephemeral installation gave visitors a striking, highly filmable cultural spectacle to watch being assembled by hand.
Why it worked: A rare, time-limited spectacle with a build-in-progress visual — half a million flowers forming a famous artwork — guaranteed irresistible video.
The lesson: Consider staging a one-week-only, assemble-in-public transformation of an iconic image or object to create must-shoot, appointment‑to‑see footage.
Brussels Flower Carpet
Visit Brussels
Japan
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How this story spread across the media
| Publication | Headline | Date |
|---|---|---|
| stripes.com | See the famous flower carpet of Brussels | Stripes Europe | Thursday 30th July, 2026 |
| euronews.com | Brussels unveils giant flower carpet inspired by Hokusai masterpiece | Thursday 13th August, 2026 |
| taipeitimes.com | Wave of flowers - Taipei Times | Thursday 13th August, 2026 |
| japantoday.com | Flower wave - Japan Today | Thursday 13th August, 2026 |
| japantimes.co.jp | Brussels flower carpet pays homage to Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ - The Japan Times | Friday 14th August, 2026 |
| designboom.com | brussels rolls out hokusai’s great wave in 750,000 dahlias for flower carpet 2026 | Friday 14th August, 2026 |
| euronews.com | Brussels central square transformed into giant Japan-inspired flower carpet | Euronews | Friday 14th August, 2026 |
| hindustantimes.com | How Brussels recreated Japanese artist Hokusai’s 120-year-old Great Wave image with 700,000 flowers | Hindustan Times | Saturday 15th August, 2026 |