May 13, 2004 -- The Great British Balloon Company is the UK’s most prestigious and acclaimed Balloon decorating business. They have won numerous international awards including European Designer of the Year and this March in Florence they beat a host of other world class designers to become World Master Champions.

The winning sculpture entitled "L'ESSENZIALE" (meaning ‘the essentials’) was constructed from 350 mainly fuchsia and gold balloons and took twenty hours to complete. Great British Balloon Company owners and designers, Peggy Butland and John Preston said, “ We took our inspiration from looking at many different shoes and designers”. When asked why they decided to design a shoe sculpture Peggy shrugged and replied “I like shoes” and who was her favourite designer?, “It’s difficult, but I particularly like Monolo Blahnik”.

The Great British Balloon Company having been going ten years and have come up with many innovative balloon designs from; A twelve foot high Lobster in fishnets, a cello, harp and drum with musical notes playing a violin and a treble cleft as the conductor, to Darth Vader and giant bumble bee.

The World Master Championships had a very strict criteria all the entrants had to have won an international award and the competition drew top balloon decorators from the USA, Italy, GB, Hungary and Ireland to name a few. On winning the award Peggy and John said, “ To be honest we were a bit shocked, all the other entries were very cute and very large while ours at only six to seven feet was small and quite detailed. Obviously we are very pleased and this adds to our credibility in the Balloon Industry and our collection of titles”.

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