Sculpting in Bloom: How Sonny Sisan Turned a Ceramicist’s Eye into Showstopping Floral Art

After launching his ceramics business, Studio Sontosis, Sonny Sisan gradually began creating floral arrangements for events. Today, his Charleston Design District studio, Floral Studies, houses both his artistic practices.

Sonny Sisan didn’t set out to be a ceramist or to run a floral studio, but the best creative paths rarely follow a straight line. A Spartanburg native who moved to Charleston in 2014 to study historic preservation and urban planning, Sisan found himself drawn toward smaller, more intimate creative work: interiors, then ceramics, and eventually flowers.

Today, he runs a thriving floral event business, Floral Studies, at Storehouse Nine in the Charleston Design District, where his ceramics practice lives alongside it. Known for a signature style that blends Lowcountry wildness with sculptural precision, Sisan has created an aesthetic that feels genuinely his own. Here, he discusses his artistic evolution.