It was printed by Henri Piazza, who hand-stencilled watercolour over collotypes using the pochoir technique to produce brilliant colours. Featuring large-scale images and accessible texts Flower offers a comprehensive introduction to the subject and includes both much-loved works together with examples that may prove more surprising discoveries, even for specialists. The Modern Flower Press is a bible of fascinating floral facts, tips, myths and, above all, glorious illustrations and photography.

Cut flower classics such as peonies and dahlias rub shoulders with daisies, climbers, grasses and fruit blossom. French flower painter Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759–1840) devoted himself exclusively to capturing the diversity of flowering plants in watercolor paintings which were then published as copper engravings, with careful botanical descriptions. H. Walter Lack is a professor at the Free University of Berlin and former director of the Botanical Gardens and Botanical Museum in Berlin-Dahlem.Step by step guide to making floral arrangements, with all aspects of the composition discussed and illustrated. Her exquisite arrangements capture the essence each plant making the most of characterful stem twists and branching tendrils – testament to years of expert botanical observation and hands in the soil.

Hand selected for their delicate stems and perfectly preserved flower heads, then arranged into a hand concertinaed book giving you a zero effort display for maximum impact. The Beauty of the Flower twins a dazzling and well-chosen display of botanical illustrations with a cogent and readable analysis of the botanical exploration and science that led to it. This beautiful, coffee table book is the perfect gift for a flower lover, and a luxurious add on to a Flower Lounge bouquet or plant. The darling of wealthy Parisian patrons including Napoleon’s wife Josephine, he was dubbed “ the Raphael of flowers,” and is regarded to this day as a master of botanical illustration. Feels like a spellbook incantating more magic than the title alone suggests … Lavish specimens scatter the pages and are reproduced in such papery, translucent detail that one might be forgiven for thinking some cheeky bookseller had slipped in a real stem or two … Encourage[s] readers to find the nearest flower and pick it, immediately, for posterity.The Modern Flower Press celebrates pressing’s surprisingly glamorous history, and offers plenty of practical advice, too.