Where Structure Meets Organic Form
There is a category of space that standard décor cannot address. Hotel lobbies with 20-foot ceilings. Estate dining rooms where a single console must anchor 800 square feet. Restaurant interiors designed by architects, not decorators. These environments require architectural faux botanicals — not arrangement, but presence. Not greenery as an accent, but greenery as structure. Maxwell + Sienna was built for exactly this.
This is a deliberate expansion into a part of the faux botanical market that has remained largely underserved: large-scale, architectural pieces designed for the trade, for hospitality, and for the kind of residential projects where scale is not optional.
What Maxwell + Sienna Is, and What It Is Not
36" Faux Allium Flower Stems
Maxwell + Sienna is not a larger version of what already exists. It is a different design philosophy applied to a different set of environments. Where most faux botanical collections are built around the home as a domestic, personal space, Maxwell + Sienna begins with the question of what a space requires structurally before it can feel finished.
The collection centers on high-canopy trees, long-stemmed botanical forms, and sculptural foliage that functions the way an architectural element functions — establishing volume, directing the eye, and giving a room its proportional logic. As Homes and Gardens has noted in its coverage of the found luxury movement, large statement pieces anchor a room and create a sense of permanence in a way that accumulated smaller objects simply cannot. These are pieces that do not decorate a corner. They define it.
Designed for the Trade
Interior designers, architects, commercial specifiers, and hospitality buyers have long faced a specific problem in the faux botanical category: quality scaled for residential spaces, with no real option for environments that demand more. A 6-foot tree reads as an accessory in a hotel corridor. A lobby installation requires something with a canopy that fills vertical space, holds its form over years of use, and looks credible to a trained design eye.
Maxwell + Sienna was built in direct response to that gap. The collection is trade-focused in its proportions, its material standards, and its approach to installation. Every piece is designed with longevity and site durability in mind — not seasonal display, but permanent placement in environments where quality is noticed and maintenance windows are limited.
Wedding designers and event planners working at an architectural scale will find pieces that photograph with the same depth and complexity as live botanical installations. Estate clients who want large-scale faux trees that hold their form and their realism through years of daily life now have an option that does not require compromising on either.
Scale as a Design Principle
Artificial Amelanchier Branches
The design world has been quietly re-examining what luxury means in an interior, and the answer increasingly centers on proportion. Real Simple puts it plainly: scale is one of the biggest indicators of luxury, and statement pieces consistently outperform multiple smaller décor items in creating a sense of considered refinement. A single large-scale piece communicates restraint and confidence. A room full of smaller accents communicates effort.
Maxwell + Sienna operates within that framework. A 9- or 10-foot canopy tree in a double-height entry is not decorative. It is doing the same work as the millwork, the stone floor, the architectural lighting. It is giving the room a reason to feel finished. The difference between a space that reads as complete and one that still feels undone is often a single piece with enough scale and presence to hold the room.
The Shift Toward Architectural Living
48" Faux Fig Branches with Fruit
The broader design conversation has been moving in this direction for some time. Vogue's coverage of fashion brands entering the home category signals something real: interiors have become extensions of personal identity, and the objects that inhabit them are increasingly held to a design standard that prioritizes sculptural presence and editorial restraint over surface-level decoration. Country Living makes the same case from a practical angle — thoughtful placement matters more than quantity, and repetition of organic, natural forms creates the cohesion that makes a space feel resolved rather than assembled.
Architectural greenery sits at the center of both arguments. It is a natural form with structural purpose. It brings the organic warmth that softens hard-lined interiors while functioning as a design anchor in its own right.
Where Maxwell + Sienna Belongs
The honest answer is that Maxwell + Sienna belongs in any space where the word "décor" is not quite right. Boutique hotels where the visual identity of the property depends on the lobby feeling intentional at every scale. Michelin-starred restaurants where the dining environment is as considered as the menu. Design studios where the principal needs a permanent, low-maintenance installation that still reads as a design choice rather than a filler. Private estates where a billiards room, a library, or a two-story foyer requires something living in scale without the logistics of actual plant care.
As Stone Gable has observed in its work with organic interiors, simple arrangements of natural forms often feel the most refined — and greenery used as a foundational styling tool, rather than a seasonal afterthought, is what separates spaces that feel genuinely considered from those that merely look put-together. For designers and commercial clients, Maxwell + Sienna delivers that quality permanently, with no repeat replacements, no seasonal service calls, and no maintenance windows to plan around.
The Relationship to CG Hunter
Faux Silver Wattle Branches
Maxwell + Sienna is a cousin brand to CG Hunter, sharing the same manufacturing standards and commitment to botanical realism while serving a distinct market. CG Hunter built its reputation on lifelike faux botanicals for the home — a category it continues to lead with pieces across the Hunter Collection and through the Designer Journal. Maxwell + Sienna takes that same foundation of quality and applies it at a scale and specification level that the residential market rarely requires but the commercial and high-end trade market always has.
The two brands are designed to coexist cleanly. A designer outfitting a client's primary residence with CG Hunter's faux olive trees and seasonal wreaths can source the lobby installation for that client's boutique hotel from Maxwell + Sienna. The quality standard and design sensibility are consistent. The scale, the application, and the intended environment differ.
A Note on What Makes This Different
Faux botanical quality at large scale is a harder problem than it appears. Most manufacturers optimize for a size range that ships, stores, and sells easily — which means the largest pieces in most collections are not designed with the same botanical integrity as their smaller counterparts. Branches thin. Canopy density drops. The realism that reads clearly at 5 feet tends to fall apart at 9.
Maxwell + Sienna was developed with the specific intention of maintaining botanical accuracy and material quality at height. The result is a collection where the largest trees are also the most architecturally credible — pieces that hold up to the scrutiny of a design-trained eye in a professionally designed space. That is a different standard than the faux botanical market has traditionally held itself to. It is the standard Maxwell + Sienna was built to meet.
Designer Answers
7.5' Faux Shady Lady Tree in Pot
What is Maxwell + Sienna? Maxwell + Sienna is a trade-focused faux botanical brand from CG Hunter, designed for large-scale, architectural applications in commercial, hospitality, and high-end residential environments. The collection features high-canopy trees, long-stemmed botanical forms, and sculptural foliage built for permanent installation in spaces where standard residential-scale pieces are insufficient.
How is Maxwell + Sienna different from CG Hunter? CG Hunter is designed for the home — lifelike faux botanicals scaled for residential rooms, consoles, entryways, and living spaces. Maxwell + Sienna operates at a different scale entirely, with pieces proportioned for hotel lobbies, estate foyers, restaurant interiors, and commercial installations where architectural presence is the requirement, not an accent.
Who is Maxwell + Sienna designed for? The collection is built for interior designers, architects, commercial specifiers, hospitality buyers, wedding and event designers, and estate clients who need large-scale faux botanicals that hold their realism and structural integrity at height. It is trade-first in its proportions, its material standards, and its approach to installation.
What kinds of spaces does Maxwell + Sienna work best in? Maxwell + Sienna is best suited to spaces where scale and permanence are the design brief — boutique hotel lobbies, Michelin-starred restaurant interiors, luxury retail environments, private estate libraries and foyers, and large-scale event and wedding installations. These are environments where a single architectural piece defines the room rather than decorates it.
Are Maxwell + Sienna pieces permanent installations? Yes. Every piece in the Maxwell + Sienna collection is designed for long-term, fixed placement rather than seasonal rotation. The material standards, proportions, and construction are built for environments where quality is scrutinized daily and maintenance windows are limited.
Explore the Collection
To explore the full collection, visit Maxwell + Sienna. For more on architectural greenery and how large-scale faux botanicals function as structural design elements, explore the Designer Journal and follow along weekly on Substack. Find us on Instagram, Pinterest, and TikTok at @cghunterhome.
