Flower Colour Guide

Author: Darroch Putnam
Publisher: Phaidon
ISBN: 9780714878300
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 483

Book Description
More than anything else, colour is how people instinctively think about flowers — whether planning for a wedding, commemorating an occasion, or looking for an easy way to bring life into a space. With 400 gorgeously photographed cut flowers organized to span the full spectrum of shades, Flower Colour Guide is the essential tool for flower selection and arrangement, and a primer to understanding and appreciating flowers and colour. 'This is the book we wish we had to help us before we started,' say authors Darroch and Michael Putnam, the duo behind New York's leading floral design studio, Putnam & Putnam.

Flower Colour Theory

Author: Darroch Putnam
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781838662356
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 484

Book Description
Leading floral designers Putnam & Putnam are back - now with the ultimate flower-arrangement reference book The follow-up to Darroch and Michael Putnam's acclaimed bestselling debut, Flower Colour Theoryis the only guide that uses colour theory as inspiration for flower arrangements. The book features 175 arrangements that show myriad ways to combine flowers of different hues, all built around colour schemes including analogous, complementary, monochromatic, triadic, transitional, and accent colours. Flower Colour Theoryis both inspirational and a guide to creating lush, romantic, and effortlessly elegant creations of your own.

Color Me Floral

Author: Kiana Underwood
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1452161658
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 251

Book Description
Learn the secrets to designing showstopping monochromatic arrangements in this spectacular guide from floral artist Kiana Underwood. Underwood shares her techniques for creating dazzling single-color displays using inspired ingredients, dramatic textures, and vibrant colors. Organized by season, the book includes how-tos for 40 arrangements— including a lush green display for spring, an astonishing black bouquet for summer, a striking magenta design for fall, and an unexpected, oh-so-pretty pink arrangement for winter. Featuring hundreds of eye-catching images and easy-to-follow tips throughout—such as suggestions for substituting flowers and options for both the beginner and advanced designer—this book is as useful as it is gorgeous. The ultimate resource, Color Me Floral has an extraordinary arrangement to enhance every occasion.

Flower School

Author: Calvert Crary
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN: 076247145X
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
Create the flower arrangements of your dreams to keep at home, take to the office, or display on any special occasion using the simple tips and tricks and masterful techniques taught by Executive Director and professor Calvert Crary and the master florists at FlowerSchool New York. FlowerSchool New York is one of the world's premiere institutes for floral design and artistry, offering career development courses certified by the New York State Board of Education, and exclusive master class programs taught by celebrated master florists including Kiana Underwood, Remco Van Vliet, Lewis Miller, Emily Thompson, and Ingrid Carozzi. Now, for the first time, FlowerSchool Executive Director Calvert Crary is publishing a book that will make it possible for even the greenest at-home arrangers to create gorgeous, Instagram worthy bouquets. This hands-on, comprehensive guide provides readers with step-by-step instructions that cover all the most crucial aspects of flower arranging, including: How to buy the best flowers and how to get the best prices Selecting your flowers based on texture, color, and seasonality Conditioning your flowers to ensure they last as long as possible Pairing your flowers with the right vase Creating arrangements in a wide variety of styles that will work for any occasion Including advice from the school's well-respected master florists, and featuring beautiful color photographs of each unique arrangement, Flower School offers invaluable, insider tips and tricks that can only be gained through years of experience, providing readers with the fundamental tools and education they need to create homemade floral arrangements that are on par with any professional design.

Glorious Shade

Author: Jenny Rose Carey
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1604698063
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 325

Book Description
“A practical guide to maintaining a shade garden with a useful calendar of seasonal tasks, plant directory and inspiring design ideas.” —Gardens Illustrated Shade is one of the most common garden concerns homeowner’s have, but with the right plant knowledge, you can learn to embrace shade as an opportunity instead of an obstacle. In Glorious Shade, Jenny Rose Carey celebrates the benefits of shade and shows you how to make the most of it. This information-rich, hardworking guide is packed with everything you need to successfully garden in the shadiest corners of a yard. You'll learn how to determine what type of shade you have and how to choose the right plants for the space. The book also shares design and maintenance tips that are key to growing a successful shade garden. Stunning color photographs offer design inspiration and reveal the beauty of shade-loving plants.

Flowers: Art & Bouquets

Author: Sixtine Dubly
Publisher: Assouline Publishing
ISBN: 1614285144
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 5

Book Description
Be it a single delicate bud in a simple clear vase or an explosion of colorful blossoms, a brilliant bouquet accents an atmosphere and brightens the mood like nothing else. The beauty of flowers has inspired artists, designers, poets, and myriad other creators for centuries: the Dutch masters of the 1600s and impressionist painters from Manet to Van Gogh, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, botanical illustrator Georg Dionysius Ehret, even the inimitable Andy Warhol. Flowers: Art & Bouquets showcases a glorious profusion of floral images and interpretations across a spectrum of artistic media and time periods. Design writer Sixtine Dubly chronicles the evolution of floral design in this remarkable compendium, which also features stunning work by more than forty contemporary floral artists in London, Paris, and New York, from minimalist to elaborate. This treasury of gorgeous imagery blooms in resplendent color before the reader’s eyes.

Flower Palettes

Author: Stephen Woodhams
Publisher: Clarkson Potter Publishers
ISBN: 9780609603635
Category : Flower arrangement
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
With commissions to decorate locations such as London's Royal Opera House, an impressive U.K. client list that includes the Polo Ralph Lauren Bond Street shop and the Athenaeum, and a growing number of American fans such as Linda Evangelista and Elizabeth Taylor, Stephen Woodhams has arrived as one of today's top floral designers.In Flower Palettes, he reveals the color-based approach to decorating with flowers that has won him such success. After offering a thorough introduction to the basic skills and techniques of arranging flowers, he organizes his book by major color groups. Some of the designs he presents highlight the power of a single color used on its own, while others show the effect of mixing complementary or contrasting colors. There are designs for every season, and the arrangements include freshly cut and dried flowers as well as living plants.With more than 150 inspiring photographs and step-by-step instructions, Flower Palettes is a complete guide for anyone wishing to create truly wondrous floral effects.

The Ultimate Flower Gardener’s Guide

Author: Jenny Rose Carey
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1643260383
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 365

Book Description
The Ultimate Flower Gardener's Guide gives home gardeners the confidence they need to create the flower-filled garden of their dreams. Jenny Rose Carey proposes a holistic approach to flower gardening with a refreshing twist. Instead of concentrating primarily on color, it brings flower shape and texture to the fore, helping homeowners make plant choices that come together in an aesthetically pleasing way. The featured plants include both perennials and annuals, and all have been chosen for their ease of care, attractiveness to pollinators, and environmental friendliness. Carey also shares information on planning for year-round color and design strategies for a range of spaces. The Ultimate Flower Gardener's Guide is a complete road map to a successful and satisfying flower-focused garden.

Floral Color Palette

Author: Mieko Sakaguchi
Publisher: Nippan Ips
ISBN: 9784865051674
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
Effective use of color is important in floral arrangement design. This book illustrates how to make effective color combinations in flower arrangement designs including wrapping paper or container.

Marjorie Blamey's Wild Flowers by Colour

Author: Marjorie Blamey
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780713672374
Category : Flowers
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
This is an innovative and remarkably user-friendly guide to the identification of the flowers of Britain and northwestern Europe. By organising the species by their colour group first (and by family within that colour group), this guide enables those less familiar with flower taxonomy to quickly and easily find what they are looking for - a great improvement on the often-frustrating business of trawling through a conventionally-organised guide. The lovely artwork by acclaimed illustrator Marjorie Blamey, with a neat, focused and simple text, makes this book a joy to use.