Art in Flower: Finding Inspiration in Art and Nature [Hardcover]

In Art in Flower, Lindsey Taylor introduces an original take on floral design that teaches us to see the world anew

Based on Lindsey Taylor's popularWall Street Journalcolumn, Flower School, on its surface this book demonstrates how Taylor creates stunning but achievable floral arrangements inspired by works of art.

Riffing on works by a diversity of artists across mediums, periods, and styles, including Alice Neel, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Julie Mehretu, Sheila Hicks, Willem de Kooning, Georgia O'Keeffe, Frank Stella, Salman Toor, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Kerry James Marshall, among many others, Taylor inspires readers to interpret the palettes, compositions, brushstrokes, and mood of the art in flowers, and shares florists' trade secrets for building beautiful arrangements.

Through this meditative practice of looking intently at art and nature, readers learn, in the words of David Hockney, to really look, and to really see the world.

Lindsey Tayloris a garden designer and floral stylist based in upstate New York. Prior to founding her design studio, Taylor was for over a decade a floral expert, writer, and editor for several publications, including theWall Street Journal,Martha Stewart Living,Domino,Garden Design,T Magazine, andArchitectural Digest.

Deborah Needlemanis a writer and editor who has served as editor in chief of WSJ., the Wall Street Journal magazine (and was creator of the newspapers lifestyle section, Off Duty), editor-in-chief ofT: The New York Times Style Magazine, and founding editor ofDomino.

Each composition is paired with a famous work of art, as well as a short explanation of how the masterpiece inspired her design. Its a telling conceit: For Lindsey, plants are her paints, and the garden, her canvas.Gardenista

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