Animal Coloring Book for Kids 4-8 (Easy Learning, #9)
by Harry Blackice
Harijanto Setiawan, an architect by training, gave up his career to pursue a new one: floral design. As a child he already knew the names of all the varieties of flowers in the garden and in elementary school he showed off his flower arranging skills during art classes. Later, by mixing architectural concepts with floral design, he would develop a style so unique that he was noticed worldwide. He worked full-time as a floral designer in various countries for 18 years. The lockdowns due to Covid-...
Illustrated with 200 colour photographs, this book contains 47 do-it-yourself projects for aromatic gifts and scented items, including 30 seasonal recipes for pot-pourris and instructions for making lavender bags, moth sachets, scented pillows, drawer liners, bath potions, soap balls, candles, pomanders, scented writing paper and furniture polishes. There is also information on how to create large-scale pieces such as wreaths and swags, an exploration of the relationship bewteen scented products...
Kip Dodds runs Kip's Flowers, a village-like shop near Kensington Palace. One day Diana's butler, Paul Burrell, dropped by and asked him to produce a sample arrangement for his boss. Disbelieving, Kip produced a simple, naturalistic arrangement - the Princess loved it so much that he became for the next three years not only the person who supplied flowers for her private apartments, entertaining and gifts, but also a close personal friend. This book is the story of that friendship through the ar...
Modern Reader on the Chinese Classics of Flower Arrangement
by Yuan Hongdao and Zhang Qiande
In China, flower arrangement is a venerable art with records dating back to the early Zhou Dynasty, the Spring and Autumn Period, and the Warring States Period-roughly between 11th century BC and 3rd century BC. This volume brings together two celebrated Ming Dynasty texts, On Vase Flower Arrangement by Zhang Qiande (1577-1643) and History of Vases by Yuan Hongdao (1568-1610). The latter of which was translated into Japanese and deeply impacted that country's tradition of flower arrangement. Un...
Pot Pourri and Other Scented Delights (The National Trust)
by Reginald Peplow
Cindy Smith designs for the best of the best - including such top names as Bruce Springsteen, Nicole Kidman, and Oprah. But fortunately for those of us who don't have their astronomical budgets, she also knows how to create out-of-this-world arrangements that real people can afford. With tasteful and stunningly photographed projects, Smith reveals how you can attain that elegant "star look," too.