On Flowers: Lessons from an accidental florist book by Amy Merrick
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Named a Best Gift Book of 2019 by InStyle and Better Homes & Gardens
A singular, personal celebration of the beauty and possibilities of nature
Amy Merrick is a rare and special kind of artist who uses flowers to help us see the familiar in a completely new way. Her gift is to revel in the unexpected—like a sunny spring arrangement housed in a paper coffee cup—and to overturn preconceptions, whether she’s transforming a bouquet of supermarket carnations into a breathtaking centerpiece or elevating wild and weedy blooms foraged from city sidewalks. She uses the beauty that is waiting to be discovered all around us—in leaves, branches, seedpods, a fallen blossom—to tell a story of time and place.
Merrick begins On Flowers with a primer containing all her hard-won secrets on the art of flower arranging, from selecting materials to mastering pleasing proportions. Then she brings readers along on her journey, with observations on flowers in New York City and at her family’s summer home in rural New Hampshire, working on a flower farm off the coast of Washington State, and studying ikebana in a jewel-box flower shop in Kyoto. We learn how to send flowers like a florist, and how to arrange them like a farm girl. We discover the poignancy in humble wildflowers, and also celebrate the luxury of fragrant blousy blooms. Collected here is an anthology of floral inspiration, a love letter to nature by an exceptional, accidental florist.
About the Author:
Amy Merrick is a traveling writer and stylist who started her career as a florist in New York City. Her flowers have been featured in Vogue and Architectural Digest and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA PS1, and Bergdorf Goodman. She has written about her experiences with gardens, flowers, and design for the Wall Street Journal.
Hardcover, 2019. 240 pages.
Frequently Asked Questions
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We deliver Th-Sat between 11am-4pm within 6 miles of our Cincinnati design studio located in the historic neighborhood of Columbia Tusculum. While we can't guarantee specific delivery times, we will try to accommodate special requests.
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Yes! We offer in-store as well as curbside pick up at our studio in the Columbia-Tusculum neighborhood of Cincinnati on Th-Sat between 11am-4pm.
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We do not offer shipping of any of our fresh flower products due to their fragile nature.
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If the recipient is not home at the time of delivery, we'll do our best to find a safe spot to place it, out of direct sunlight and any precipitation. If we determine that quality of the flowers could be affected, due to weather like extreme heat or snow, or other circumstances, we will not leave the order and will notify the sender and recipient where it is located.
