Carolyne Roehm

Nothing lights up a room like flowers. Whether it's baby's breath draped on a table at a wedding reception, clusters of daffodils in small pots scattered throughout a living room or a bucket of sunflowers on a picnic table, a strategically placed bouquet has the power to create a mood and make us feel special. Unfortunately, most of us don't know how to display flowers properly, and they often end up clumsily thrown together in a vase. In A Passion for Flowers, Carolyne Roehm teaches readers how to create arrangements that set off a flower's natural beauty. She discusses the overall features of dozens of the most popular flowers and helps readers understand how these elements relate to each other. Though the book is filled with ideas for brightening holidays and special occasions, Roehm stresses that the magic of flowers should be enjoyed year-round. Organized by season to profile the blossoms as they come into their glory, bouquet "recipes" with step-by-step instructions are sprinkled throughout along with special care instructions for more sensitive blooms. Sections detailing containers, conditioning flowers and elements of floral design are included at the end of the book. A Passion for Flowers features 250 breathtaking photographs and is a treasure trove of knowledge and inspiration that will help readers stop and smell the roses every day.

A Passion for Flowers

"Universal experiences come together with vibrant examples and exclusive photos of Roehm's work in fashion, flowers, table design, and interiors to create a unique celebration of the power of beauty. Carolyne Roehm's bestselling books have been a source of inspiration, pleasure, and education for thousands of readers. Now for the first time she shares her life in style, from her small-town Missouri childhood to her New York fashion career and her role as an author and tastemaker. From her early years working for Oscar de la Renta, through running her eponymous fashion line, to the reinvention of herself as an author, to the constant threads of color, quality, classicism, and nature that run through all the media for which she has designed, the book traces the personal evolution of a woman long fascinated by style, who remains passionate about sharing her vision with others. Reflecting on past influences and sharing both iconic and never-before-seen photos, Roehm shows how her passion for creativity transcended fields--interiors, floral design, gardening, entertaining, tabletop, painting, and photography--in work, style, and life"--Dust jacket.

a constant thread

Design & style

Melissa Davis

Suggests season-by-season ideas for place settings, floral arrangements, and menus appropriate for picnics, intimate meals, afternoon gatherings, and formal dinner parties.

At Home With Carolyne Roehm

Passions

It has been more than a decade since Carolyne Roehm first shared her love of gardening and flower arranging. Now, for the first time ever, she turns her own photographic lens to that passion with Flowers, showcasing more than 300 images of the varieties in her abundant gardens, all captured at their most vibrant and exquisite moments throughout the season. With a gardener’s intimate understanding and a designer’s elegant eye, Roehm shows us the flowers she has cultivated for decades in and around Weatherstone, her historic Connecticut home. While alternating dramatic close-ups with portraits of lovely arrangements and sweeping views of her land, Roehm writes with wit, emotion, and affection of what flowers have meant to her, as well as of the joys and travails of the committed gardener’s life. What began as a casual hobby ultimately became a multi-year endeavor, as Roehm used her camera to explore the special relationship a gardener enjoys with her carefully nurtured beauties. The outcome is a remarkably personal visual essay: sumptuous, surprising, and as revealing of the sensibility behind the camera as the magnificent species that stand before it. This beautiful objet d’art—a flower garden in a book—is Carolyne Roehm’s most significant and singular volume yet.

Flowers

Marc Kristal

Carolyne celebrates her gardens as outdoor living rooms, revealing how she chooses the plants, flowers, and layouts; how she entertains guests with gorgeous table settings and breathtaking arrangements; and how she savors the hours among the blooms.

Carolyne Roehm

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