The Artistry of Flowers

FLORAL DESIGN BY LA MUSA DE LAS FLORES

MARÍA GABRIELA SALAZAR, PHOTOGRAPHS BY NGOC MINH NGO

Bring beauty in the form of nature into your home and your lifestyle, no matter where you live, through artful oral arrangements, as well as indoor and outdoor owering plants.

The Artistry of Flowers encourages everyone to live with orals and to appreciate their beauty as we appreciate art. Celebrated oral designer Gabriela Salazar teaches us how to look at owers and understand their characteristics from an artist’s perspective. By exploring dierent shapes, colors, and textures, she shows us how to understand owers and their living, transitory nature.

Drawing on her painting background, Salazar looks at oral arrangements as compositions. She highlights which type of blooms are best for dierent designs and shares building blocks for oral designs ranging from simple and sculptural to complex and colorful, including arrangements for any mood and dierent decor. Salazar inspires us to explore our creativity, empowering us to design our own arrangements.

Combining philosophical and practical tips, such as appreciating how owers change over time and working with fragility The Artistry of Flowers is a treatise on ower appreciation. The stunning photography by Ngoc Minh Ngo— known for Rizzoli books such as In Bloom and Eden Revisited —complements Salazar’s enthusiastic instruction.

Gabriela Salazar of La Musa de las Flores is a floral designer with a flower farm in the mountains of Mexico. She has clients in the fashion and design world including Yves Saint Laurent (YSL), Hermès, and Mont Blanc, and is also known for her floral design classes. Ngoc Minh Ngo is a celebrated photographer whose images have been published in Rizzoli books and such publications as T Magazine, Architectural Digest and Cabana.

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224 pages, 8½ x 11" 200 color illustrations Hardcover • 9780847899081 $50.00 USD, $67.50 CAD, £38.95 GBP March 14, 2023 Rights: World

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