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The book offers practical cat care and basic training information. Everything you need to know about raising a happy, fun-loving cat can be found in this book. It includes a schedule for your cat while you work, developing your cat's personality, classy tricks to teach your cat, travel tips, and many other ideas for you and your cat to enjoy.
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Paula Pryke is one of the world's leading floral designers and an inspiration to novices and experts alike. Her flower school in London, which attracts students worldwide, provides one of the most sought-after credentials for anyone serious about mastering the art of floral design. Now with Flower School, Pryke offers the essentials of her London program in gorgeously illustrated text, allowing readers to feel as if they have enrolled in her school. Simple step-by-step instructions and clearly defined photographs make even the most ambitious design achievable. Drawing on her signature designs, she discusses design rules, color concepts, equipment, and flower preparation, and then offers a series of formal lessons on hand-tied bouquets, the use of water in containers, wirework, and designing for special events. This impressive collection is rounded out with a flower directory detailing those flowers and plants best suited to Pryke's dramatic approach to floral artistry. Packed with original ideas and invaluable techniques, this comprehensive volume is an inspirational sourcebook for flower arrangers of any level.
Customer Reviews:
Truly a master class in floral design.......2007-06-19
This book is amazing! Detailed, gorgeous photos and instructions to create the best floral arrangements of your life. New ideas on every page, lots of suggestions for supplies and techniques.
Gave me Inspiration.......2007-06-04
I chose this book to help me get ready for a State Flower show. I found the photos and designs inspirational to me. Paula Pryke's material selection is outstanding and she's thinking outside the box. The content is not too textbook, technical or preachy, but simply laid out. There is limited information about the mechanics of creating a design which is why I give it a 4.
I'm happy to say my design won a blue ribbon.
Just Ok!.......2007-04-17
Great pictures and ideas, but not for the beginning florist. If your just starting out, have no experience and trying to learn the art of floral design, this is not the book for you to learn.
Paula Pryke's Flower School: Mastering the Art of Floral Design .......2007-03-30
Excellent....just as advertised.
Paula Pryke's Flower School: Mastering the Art of Floral Design.......2006-11-10
As a budding floral arranger I thought this book was a bit limited from
an educational standpoint. The pictures are beautiful but there weren't
many creative designs. I was hoping for an instructional book on how
to do designs and was dissapointed.
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The Art of Floral Design, 2E is an illustrated full-color book which highlights floral design techniques-from the basic to the cutting edge. With a well-balanced presentation of theory and practice this book sets the standard in floral design. Topics covered include the principles and mechanics of flower arranging, basic flower anatomy, as well as arrangement styles for a variety of special occasions. Updated to reflect the latest concepts and practices, this new second edition will place users at the forefront of their field.
Customer Reviews:
class room help.......2007-07-03
I teach floral design and use this book in my classroom. It's great. The students like it and it is very helpful for them
The Art of Floral Design.......2007-03-09
Used this book for a college class I was taking. I found this book to very easy to understand and helpful in making floral designs. The illustrations pictured, captured exactly what was being taught. A great book for beginners.
Good learning tool.......2007-01-04
this was a required book for a class I took in floral design. The book covers most aspects of floral design from arranging to marketing. If you are looking to learn how to design arrange flowers this is a good reference book.
You can learn a lot if you don't fall asleep first........2006-09-17
I am currently enrolled in a floral design program using this book as text. Yes, it is a very imformative book, but Ms. Hunter goes into far to much detail and uses far to many words to get her point across. Maybe it's just me and I am a far more visually oriented person, but trying to learn floral design through the use of a text book so far is not my cup of tea...I think it's a good reference book but that's about it.
Excellent Textbook.......2006-08-29
I have referred to this textbook throughout the five years since I took my first floral design class. I am now a seasoned designer and sometimes refresh my memory by re-reading chapters. Well-written and illustrated.
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Thierry Dauwe's photographs of often intriguing and challenging floral works of art show an incredible feeling for the subject. Ivo Pauwels has written a poetic text to accompany each extraordinary picture. Expressions records the brilliant and evocative floral art of the twenty-first century for posterity.
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This book creates a whole new aesthetic for flowers. Paula Pryke breaks the mold of conventional flower arranging so successfully that this visionary collection of arrangements gives real meaning to the term floral art. Her originality, ingenuity and dramatic use of raw materials are key to the strong visual impact, vibrancy and always perfectly harmonious arrangements she creates. Stunningly photographed, the book is both a rich sourcebook of fresh and stylish ideas and a highly practical guide enabling the amateur to create dozens of artistic arrangements for every occasion. The multiplicity of flowers available today offers almost limitless scope for flower arrangers. Part of the book's novel approach is to encourage experimentation and innovation by showing how to mix some of the less familiar flowers now appearing on the market, with the more typical.
How to create celebration arrangements for anniversaries, Christmas, the New Year, Easter, Hallowe'en, Mother's Day, weddings, birthdays and house warmings. Which containers to choose to complement arrangements: pottery, china, wood, basketry or metal, and how to make unusual natural containers from vegetables and foliage. How to arrange flowers according to particular color schemes, through the spectrum of reds, yellows and greens to blues, whites and mixed combinations. Selecting floral themes, whether formal or informal, period or modern, scented, edible or tropical. Easy-to-follow, step-by-step photographs and an illustrated chapter on techniques show you how to achieve perfect results. A comprehensive gazetteer acts as a reference guide to over 300 flowers. In Flowers, Flowers!, the artistry and expertise of Paula Pryke's masterful flower arranging skills are now accessible for the first time, to capture the imagination, teach and inspire.
Customer Reviews:
Flower Arrangement as an Art Form.......2006-08-08
Paula Pryke is an artist is every sense of the word. Coming across this magnificently and luxuriously illustrated book is like discovering a famous artist new to you. The topic is 'Inspired Arrangements for All Occasion' and both the writing and illustrations certainly prove that claim to be true.
But what is so very different in this rich volume than in other volumes on flower arranging is the unique approach to the medium. Pryke's keen eye combines not only flowers of every possible kind (from simple wild garden blossoms to the most exotic of species from strange lands), but she also sees vegetable, seeds, gourds, branches, twigs, moss, vines - all are of equal importance to her choices for synthesis of her amazing creations.
Some Floral designers elect to create books about their craft that are limited to beautifully photographed final arrangements. Paula Pryke, with a winning writing style, takes us through the puzzling mysteries of how she finds and assembles the components of her art. She also separates the book into simple works, arrangements according to a unified color scheme, and arrangements and accoutrements that are celebratory for holidays and special occasions.
Whether this book is added to the library as a coffee table adornment (sure to be admired by all discerning guests) or as a guide to creative floral design, FLOWERS, FLOWERS! is an artwork containing some of the most exquisite floral you will encounter. Highly recommended. Grady Harp, August 06
all you want to know about flower arrangement.......2006-02-25
This book has all you would like to know about flower arrangement. Starting from how the flowers make it to the market(from the growers) ,to the Common names and Latin names of the different flower species. There are superb pictures of 100s of arrangements for different occassions and step by step descriptions of how to do some of them. What I liked the most , was the last chapter called techniques, it has a thorough description of all the equipment one needs to do these elaborate arrangents. However, for a complete beginner like me , this book might seem too intense as the arrangements are quite elaborate. At any rate, it makes a good coffee table read.
Simply the Best.......2002-03-28
There is no need for a lengthy review of this book. Quite simply, it contains photos of the most beautiful floral arrangements I have ever seen. I enjoy it often with a sense of awe and envy.
Very Useful..........2000-11-05
I have been running my own floral design business for parties and special events for two years now, and this book has proved itself to be one of my most valuable resources. A very diverse collection of arrangements is found throughout the pages of this book and I would rate it as a definite asset to the library of both professionals and flower lovers alike.
Great Resource.......2000-04-08
This book is a wonderful resource for anyone who uses flowers. The author presents wonderful and original ideas and the photography is excellent. I've never seen one better. I wish it was again in print!
Book Description
The images in this beautifully conceived CD-ROM and book set have been selected from many rare and costly sources. Ranging in style from 18th-century botanical to early-20th-century Art Nouveau, the appealing illustrations — 286 in color, 32 in black and white — depict flowers, plants, tendrils, blossoms, and leaves.
Customer Reviews:
Beautiful...Beautiful...Images.......2007-05-15
This book contains colorful, detailed, and inspirational floral designs. I am so happy that I purchase this item.
Gorgeous.......2007-01-21
Amazingly beautiful, gorgeous series of books. I bought them all. I'm a decorative painting and these books offer a wealth of ideas. The CD is incredibly helpful particularly if you do a lot of sketch and design work on your computer. Fantastic reproductions. Highly recommended.
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Designing with Flowers
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ASIN: 0517559420
Release Date: 1986-12-13 |
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Convenient, visually appealing collection, adapted from such images as floral clusters, Slavic and Far Eastern motifs, and other designs, has a multitude of uses. Suitable wherever decorative illustrations are needed — textiles, wallpapers, needlework, and stencil patterns — the attractive images will be invaluable to artists, designers, craftworkers, and students of art. 417 black-and-white illustrations.
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Throughout the history of decoration, floral compositions have been one of the designers' main sources of inspiration. Almost every historical style includes designs based on flowering plants. Today, too, floral patterns are ubiquitous in fashion, advertising and many other forms of decoration. Floral Patterns, a resource book with over 120 color designs - all saved on the enclosed free CD - is reworked, improved and expanded version of one of the most successful volumes in this series.
Customer Reviews:
useful book.......2007-01-05
this book can help any designer and any artist.
this book contains many options for so many designs.
its a beautiful book and the fact that there is a cd inside helps a lot and very usefuly.
Book Description
Treasury of 89 choice, black-and-white cuts depicting superbly rendered roses, sunflowers, tulips, lilies, crocuses, carnations, iris and many other single and clustered blossoms. A versatile collection that's an ideal addition to any artist's archive of ready-to-use illustrations. Disk contains all items in book.
Customer Reviews:
Wonderful Book.......2000-09-20
This book has a wide range of floral images for various projects. The CD is great; saves scanning time and frustration. Highly recommended.
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