On Flowers - Softcover

Kathryn Kleinman; Sara Slavin

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811801292 ISBN 13: 9780811801294

Publisher: Chronicle Books Llc, 1992

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On Flowers by Kathryn Kleinman and Sara Slavin is an exquisite full-color volume that celebrates the wonder and beauty of flowers. In arrangements by outstanding designers and in stunning photographs, this beautiful book presents imaginative worlds created from flowers - flowers contained in vases and wreaths, edible flowers for salads and garnishes, and fantasy designs of flowers as clothing and art. A lyrical text explores the significance of flowers in literature, poetry, and everyday life, as well as practical information on the styling, handling, and care of flowers. Twenty delicious recipes such as Scented Geranium Muffins and Pasta with Wild Onion Flowers create surprising new possibilities for flowers.

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A little book in a large format, this collects bits of folklore, information, and inspiration about flowers, as well as many full-color photographs of flower arrangements. It is organized loosely by theme, including general information, literary lore, types of flowers and their ornamental uses, flower receptacles and recipes. What human hands have wrought on flowers interests the collaborators more than flowers do. As a result, their production is lyrical but mannered, and steeped in Victoriana: in one photograph, an angelic child rapturously clasps a bouquet; in another, a nosegay rests on a prim mound of lacy pillows. Some pictures are immaculately staged, others are mawkish. The text includes a smattering of quotations (Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson); facts (the plan for Marie Antoinette's hoped-for escape from prison was communicated to her in a message sent concealed in a carnation); old wives' tales (to deepen the color of blue hydrangeas, bury nails near them); and flower recipes, such as one for nasturtium pizza. Less a practical guide than an esthetic one, the book will appeal to some tastes and annoy others.
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