Artistic Floral Design: Innovative Work from the American Institute of Floral Designers
Artistic Floral Design: Innovative Work from the American Institute of Floral Designers

Author: American Institute of Floral Design

Publisher: Wildflower Media Incorporated

Published: 2020-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781733782661

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The American Institute of Floral Designers? and Wildflower.Media are proud to release "Artistic Floral Design 2020," a book that brings together some of today's most inspirational and creative floral creations from AIFD® designers around the world. The collaboration between Wildflower.Media and AIFD® has given the organization an opportunity to share a glimpse of the amazing work and talent of just a few of its almost 2000 members. This 120-page, full-color hardback showcases the innovative and unpublished original work of 24 accredited AIFD® designers. The publication celebrates selected designs that were chosen to fill the pages with art, education and beauty - as well as saluting all AIFD® members who are committed each and every day to fill the lives of many around the world with art and flowers.

Floral Libations
Floral Libations

Author: Cassie Winslow

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2019-04-02

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 1452175330

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Explore the unique flavors of flowers. Elegant, edible flowers are becoming more accessible every day—and they taste as good as they look. This curated collection of 41 delightful recipes combine the playful creativity of fashion, the deliciousness of food, and the beauty of flowers in one gorgeous glass. Whether you're throwing a baby shower, hosting a Mother's Day brunch, celebrating a wedding, or simply entertaining guests, there's something for everyone, with our without alcohol, including: • Iced Lavender Café au Lait • Rose Petal Almond Milk • Dandelion Tea Cinnamon Cappuccino • Hibiscus Old Fashioned • Plum Rosewater Gin and Tonic • Orange Blossom Moscow Mule Learn how to create floral pantry item staples to create a scrumptious and sophisticated cocktail of your own, and embark on a new culinary adventure. This garden-party eye candy also includes practical tips on where to buy edible flowers, whether to choose fresh or dried flowers, how to grow edible flowers at home, and how to use florals in other recipes.

Strange Bright Blooms
Strange Bright Blooms

Author: Randy Malamud

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Published: 2021-10-19

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1789144019

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Virginia Woolf famously began one of her greatest novels: “Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.” Of course she would: why would anyone surrender the best part of the day to someone else? Flowers grace our lives at moments of celebration and despair. “We eat, drink, sing, dance, and flirt with them,” writes Kakuzo Okakura. Flowers brighten our homes, our parties, and our rituals with incomparable notes of natural beauty, but the “nature” in these displays is tamed and conscribed. Randy Malamud seeks to understand the transplanted nature of cut flowers—of our relationship with them and the careful curation of their very existence. It is a picaresque, unpredictable ramble through the world of flowers, but also the world itself, exploring painting, murals, fashion, public art, glass flowers, pressed flowers, flowery church hats, weaponized flowers, deconstructed flowers, flower power, and much more.

The Flower Workshop
The Flower Workshop

Author: Ariella Chezar

Publisher: Ten Speed Press

Published: 2016-03-01

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1607747650

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Written by a celebrated floral designer and lavishly illustrated with full-color photography, this book provides step-by-step instructions for more than 45 stunning floral projects from simple to spectacular and equips you with the skills to customize arrangements at home. Whether hosting a party, helping out with a friend's wedding, or wishing to incorporate the beauty of flowers into everyday life, The Flower Workshop allows you to create dazzling arrangements that go beyond merely pretty and into realms of the dramatic, the unexpected, and sometimes even the magical. Known for her hands-on flower workshops at FlowerSchool New York, Ariella Chezar walks you through the nuts and bolts of creating a variety of small flourishes, tonal arrangements, branch arrangements, handheld bouquets, wreaths, garlands, grand gestures, and more—all accompanied by detailed photography. Chezar offers advice and philosophy on everything from texture and color to foliage and containers, providing an overall approach to living and working with flowers, with an eye toward fresh, local, wild, seasonally influenced floral design. For every occasion, from relaxed and simple to lavish and monumental, The Flower Workshop celebrates the special moments in your life with glorious, fragrant floral arrangements and enhances your surroundings with abundant beauty.

Flower Confidential
Flower Confidential

Author: Amy Stewart

Publisher: Algonquin Books

Published: 2008-03-18

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1565126459

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A globe-trotting, behind-the-scenes look at the dazzling world of flowers and the fascinating industry it has created. Award-winning author Amy Stewart takes readers on an around-the-world, behind-the-scenes look at the flower industry and how it has sought—for better or worse—to achieve perfection. She tracks down the hybridizers, geneticists, farmers, and florists working to invent, manufacture, and sell flowers that are bigger, brighter, and sturdier than anything nature can provide. There's a scientist intent on developing the first genetically modified blue rose; an eccentric horticultural legend who created the most popular lily; a breeder of gerberas of every color imaginable; and an Ecuadorean farmer growing exquisite roses, the floral equivalent of a Tiffany diamond. And, at every turn she discovers the startling intersection of nature and technology, of sentiment and commerce.

Floristry Now
Floristry Now

Author: Paula Pryke

Publisher: Jacqui Small

Published: 2017-02-16

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1911127500

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The defining characteristic of Paula Pryke’s work is her consummate use of colour; her bold colour choices rendered her work unique and innovative in the infancy of her career, and throughout her work she has never failed to challenge and excite. Where Paula leads, others follow. In this invaluable book Paula shares her colour secrets; she explores colour influences, the psychological effects of personal responses, and gives very practical tips based on her own experience and personal skill set regarding how to use and combine colours. Above all, she shares her many wonderful designs with the intention to inspire and inform the reader.

Jane Packer's Flower Course
Jane Packer's Flower Course

Author: Jane Packer

Publisher: Ryland Peters & Small

Published: 2014-02-21

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 184975313X

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This book imparts the secrets of successful flower arranging to every reader, novice and expert alike. In Jane Packer's Flower Course, celebrated florist Jane Packer covers the same ground as the highly regarded four-week career course taught in her flower school, putting her wealth of experience and her celebrated designs within the reach of every reader. This beautiful new book is divided into three sections. covering irresistible floral gifts, gorgeous arrangements of all shapes and sizes, and fabulous party and wedding flowers. Jane Packer is one of Britain's best-known floral artists. She established Jane Packer Flowers in 1982 and now has outlets in London, New York, Seoul, Tokyo and Kuwait City.