"Art in Flower" by Lindsey Taylor
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By Lindsey Taylor with a foreword by Deborah Needleman
In Art in Flower, Lindsey Taylor introduces an original take on floral design that teaches us to see the world anew. We are thrilled for our friend Lindsey and grateful for a number of Bloomist vases featured in her Flower School columns and in the book. Her florists' trade secrets and floral arranging tips shared in the book are invaluable.
Based on Lindsey Taylor's popular Wall Street Journal Off Duty column, 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.