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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
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pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
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have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
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Like the author's exquisite first book, Bringing Nature Home, this
much-awaited follow-up title presents stunning arrangements and
ideas for interiors inspired by the beauty of flowers. Ngoc Minh
Ngo has recorded the work of artists, designers, and tastemakers
who demonstrate the many ways that flowers can enhance our homes
and work spaces. Each chapter focuses on a unique way to
incorporate floral designs into interiors, from flower arrangements
made from foraged greenery to wall painting evoking Monet's water
lilies to paper flowers that never lose their vibrancy. Renowned
photographer Oberto Gili fills his house in Italy with treasures
from his bountiful garden that inspire his work, and landscape
designer Miranda Brooks puts to use her passion for all things
botanical in the decoration of her beautiful Brooklyn home. With
exceptional photography that captures the beauty of these
flower-inspired homes and text that shares how these imaginative
artists and designers achieved their botanical creations, this is
an irresistible book for flower lovers, decorators, and homeowners.
Best known for Our Southern Highlanders (1913) and Camping and
Woodcraft (1916), Horace Kephart's keen interest in exploring and
documenting the great outdoors would lead him not only to settle in
Bryson City, North Carolina, but also to become the most
significant writer about the Great Smoky Mountains in the early
twentieth century. Edited by Mae Miller Claxton and George
Frizzell, Horace Kephart: Writings extends past Kephart's two
well-read works of the early 1900s and dives into his
correspondence with friends across the globe, articles and columns
in national magazines, unpublished manuscripts, journal entries,
and fiction in order to shed some deserved light on Kephart's
classic image as a storyteller and practical guide to the Smokies.
The book is divided into thematic subsections that call attention
to the variety in Kephart's writings, its nine chapters featuring
Kephart's works on camping and woodcraft, guns, southern
Appalachian culture, fiction, the Cherokee, scouting, and the park
and Appalachian trail. Each chapter is accompanied by an
introductory essay by a notable Appalachian scholar providing
context and background to the included works. Written for scholars
interested in Appalachian culture and history, followers of the
modern outdoor movement, students enamored of the Great Smoky
Mountains, and general readers alike, Horace Kephart: Writings
gathers a plethora of little-known and rarely seen material that
illustrates the diversity and richness found in Kephart's work.
For nearly fifty years, this classic book has led the way in floral
design. Flowers: Creative Design contains hundreds of suggestions
on new, simpler, and quicker methods of constructing floral pieces.
Detailed instructions, profusely illustrated with more than 380
photographs and 150 sketches in progressive steps, will enable the
experienced and not so experienced to produce work of professional
quality. This volume contains a wealth of information everyone,
regardless of skill level, can use to add the elegance of flowers
to their life. Florists, amateurs, hobbyists, instructors, wedding
and party planners, and those who simply appreciate beauty will be
taken with the wealth of information in Flowers: Creative Design.
Includes: A graphic explanation of line, form, space, texture and
pattern, color, size, proportion, and harmony, to name just a few,
to enable the creation of beautiful arrangements. In-depth ways to
create vegetative, geometric, ikebana, interpretive, and abstract
designs. Information on the care and handling of freshly cut
flowers and foliage, methods of tinting and dyeing flowers, and
preserving and drying flowers and foliage. A definitive discussion
of traditional and contemporary wedding design and the florist's
role from the first moment of consultation until the last guest has
departed. Spectacular designs are suggested for the entire bridal
ceremony, with a discussion of wedding etiquette and procedures.
Personal flower designs for corsages, boutonnieres, hairpieces, and
wedding bouquets. How to create beautiful wreaths, container, and
spray designs. Fresh ways of decorating and designing with potted
plants and bonsai arrangements.
A wonderfully creative and original approach to Japanese floral
design Japanese floral designs often outshine other floral
arrangements in perfection and symmetry. The floral designs of
Hiroyuki Oka are no exception to that rule. But next to fine,
detailed craftsmanship, this young floral artist is gifted with a
great sense of humour and an eye for quirk. Next to some more
traditional Japanese floral designs, this first monograph brims
with captivating creativity, originality and witty designs destined
to bring a smile to your face
Acclaimed florists Per Benjamin and Max van de Sluis share their
extensive knowledge in the field of floral art in this voluminous
recipe book. Step-by-step they create bouquets, table decorations,
arrangements with cut flowers and plants, wedding flowers, sympathy
pieces, festive Christmas decorations and other impressive designs
for the home. This book compiles all eight volumes of the popular
(and sold out) series Creativity with Flowers. It covers a nice mix
of commercial and artistic designs and caters both to the hobbyist
and the professional. In addition to the hundreds of arrangements,
both florists graciously grant us a peek behind the scenes: they
explain their way of working, sources of inspiration, thought
process and creativity to encourage the reader to do more than
merely copy their arrangements. The ultimate goal of this book is
not only to provide the necessary tools and techniques, but also to
give florists the confidence to develop into artists with a
personal style and a unique artistic personality.
After "Ikebana Today" in which mainly individual works by teachers
were shown, "Contemporary Ikebana" is a surprising book that is the
result of team work worldwide. Teachers, together with colleagues
and students, position their flower arrangements in a carefully
selected setting. The origins of Ikebana lie in a Buddhist
expression of respect and appreciation for the harmony and beauty
of nature. This religious statement has gradually turned into an
aesthetic expression that was first used for the embellishment of
tokonoma (traditional Japanese style alcove reserved for the
display of art) and later as a decoration of the interior in
general.Today, we see Ikebana in living rooms, shop windows,
company and hotel lobbies and even in the countryside. Many
landscape artists have had Ikebana training. This book not only
shows larger works, land art and installations, but also smaller
refined, beautifully positioned arrangements. This magnificent
publication reveals the most innovative, contemporary
manifestations of Ikebana.
Founded in a historic nursery in southeast Pennsylvania, Terrain is
a nationally renowned garden, home, and lifestyle brand with an
entirely fresh approach to living with nature. It's an approach
that bridges the gap between home and garden, the indoors and the
outdoors. An approach that embraces decorating with plants and
inviting the garden into every living space. Terrain, the book, not
only captures the brand's unique and lushly appealing sensibility
in over 450 beautiful photographs but also shows, in project after
project, tip after tip, how to live with nature at home. Here are
ideas for flower arranging beyond the expected bouquet, using
branches and wild blooms, seed heads and bulbs. Ten colourful
container gardens inspired by painterly palettes. Dozens of ideas
for making wreaths out of vines, dried stems, evergreens, and fresh
leaves and fern fronds (which you learn to preserve in glycerin).
Here are secrets for forcing branches to bloom in the middle of
winter. Decorating with heirloom pumpkins, including turning them
into table top planters. Simple touches - like massing high-summer
hydrangeas into weathered baskets and scattering them around the
patio - and more involved projects, including taking inspiration
from Scandinavia and Britain to create a truly natural Christmas.
With inspiration for every season, Terrain blurs the indoors and
out to bring the subtle and surprising joys of nature into our
lives every day.
Alethea Harampolis and Jill Rizzo, authors of The Flower Recipe
Book and founders of Studio Choo, provide more than 100
step-by-step projects to make with flowering and leafy branches. In
the spring, readers can create a cherry blossom bough or a
centrepiece of lilacs and olive branches. In the summer, a garland
features sage with pomegranates and citrus-coloured strawflowers.
In autumn, wreaths are made out of magnolias and rosemary. Winter
highlights cedar, pine, and juniper, yielding unexpected table
settings and new wreath shapes. Also included are hundreds of
step-by-step photos, as well as tutorials covering basic
techniques, sourcing, and care information.
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