Makoto Azuma

A tour de force, showcasing flowers in lush images that highlight the riotous colors and exuberant nature of their subject.

The Art of Flowers in Four Seasons

Flora Magnifica

A comprehensive showcase of Makoto Azuma's striking flower art and botanical sculpture captured in stunning color photography.

Flower Art

Florilegio i fiori, il tempo, la vita

Kyōko Wada

Shunsuke Shiinoki

Flowers have been a universal cultural object for millennia. They are an important aesthetic element in everyday life worldwide, and have played a highly symbolic role in art throughout the ages. Over the past few years, Makoto Azuma has created a furor in the art world with his floral installations, in which he creates unusual new shapes from plants and flowers and their component parts. Inspired by the Japanese tradition of ikebana--the art of flower arranging--Azuma creates novel and previously unseen aesthetics by bringing together unusual plants that wouldn't usually meet in nature--some of them exotic --in extraordinary arrangements. Shunsuke Shiinoki, who opened the "haute-couture" florists Jardin des Fleurs in Tokyo in 2002 in association with Makoto Azuma, captured these exceptional floral installations in extraordinary photographs.

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