Tim Winter

Paula Pryke

"Bouquets and floral arrangements for the most memorable and perfect wedding day"--Book jacket.

Bouquets and Floral Arrangements for the Most Memorable and Perfect Wedding Day

Paula Pryke - Weddings

Paula Pryke is one of the world's leading floral designers and an inspiration to novices and experts alike. Her flower school in London, which attracts students worldwide, provides one of the most sought-after credentials for anyone serious about mastering the art of floral design. Now with Flower School, Pryke offers the essentials of her London program in gorgeously illustrated text, allowing readers to feel as if they have enrolled in her school. Simple step-by-step instructions and clearly defined photographs make even the most ambitious design achievable. Drawing on her signature designs, she discusses design rules, color concepts, equipment, and flower preparation, and then offers a series of formal lessons on hand-tied bouquets, the use of water in containers, wirework, and designing for special events. This impressive collection is rounded out with a flower directory detailing those flowers and plants best suited to Pryke's dramatic approach to floral artistry. Packed with original ideas and invaluable techniques, this comprehensive volume is an inspirational sourcebook for flower arrangers of any level.

Creating Bold Innovative Floral Designs

Paula Pryke's Flower School

The best of Paula Pryke’s classic and contemporary floral arrangements—in an accessible format to inspire novice and expert alike. Paula Pryke, Britain’s acclaimed master floral designer and author of numerous bestselling books, is unsurpassed in creating floral objets d’art. Essentially a form of interior decoration or stage setting, Pryke’s floral designs are the key to beautifying the home, creating interior moods, and setting the tone for entertaining, parties, and memorable events throughout the year. Included are her signature clean, contemporary designs as well as romantic, old-fashioned bouquets with a modern sense of color and form. Pryke’s floral artistry goes beyond the traditional arrangement-in-a-vase—her signature concepts include using nontraditional containers, unexpected accessories (e.g., candles or fruit), combining unusual colors, textures, and architectural forms, as well as other decorative touches such as wreaths, garlands, and even decorative dog collars. Packed with ideas, skills, and techniques, this book explores the latest trends in floral design for any season and encourages readers to let their creativity and personal style flow with step-by-step instructions. Gorgeously illustrated, this compilation is an invaluable catalogue of ideas and inspirations.

Classic and Contemporary Arrangements

Decorating with Flowers

Simple Flowers

A lavishly illustrated manual profiles more than eighty projects divided into classic and contemporary styles as one of the leading floral designers in the world today provides step-by-step instructions and techniques for creative floral arrangements. 15,000 first printing.

Choosing, Creating, Presenting

Flowers: the Complete Book of Floral Design

We’d all love to have fresh flowers at home all year round, but expense and the fact that many varieties don’t last – as well as a shortage of time – often prevent us from doing so. Now, world-renowned flower designer Paula Pryke demonstrates how clever use of your garden, together with careful selections at the florist, garden centre or supermarket, can help you enjoy flowers at home every day of the year. Taking each season in turn, Paula discusses her favourite plants and flowers, both from markets and her own garden. Her planting plans for beds and borders, plus garden tasks, will help you produce a plentiful supply of plants and flowers for free all year round. Paula also suggests the best flowers to purchase each season, ensuring you get the most from your budget – whether by buying in season or choosing long-lasting varieties. Her top quality recommendations may not always be the cheapest, but their longer vase-life gives them unbeatable value, and saves you precious time. Featuring Paula’s creative and eye-catching ideas for Easter, Mother’s Day, Christmas and more, Flowers Every Day is also a brilliant resource for special occasion flower arrangements. Paula’s innovative, modern and fresh arrangements combine the very best seasonal flowers, as well as foliage, seed heads, stems, grasses, nuts and fruits to enhance your home and lifestyle, every day.

Creative Ideas for Simple, Modern Flowers for Your Home

Flowers Every Day

Everything you need to know about the Paula Pryke style can be found in this practical and inspirational sourcebook. Packed with ideas, skills and techniques, Flower School enables you to explore the latest trends in floral design by assimilating Paula’s signature style of cutting-edge floristry. On mastering the basic techniques and elements of good floral design you will be able to recreate the essence of Paula’s flowers at home or for a special event, develop your own style, and in time, become a serious floral artist. Flower School’s simple text and step-by-step instructions for a broad range of stunning projects make even the most ambitious floral design achievable. The rasion d’être of any flower arrangement is the starting point for every floral designer. Flowers are always sent, given or displayed to convey personal messages or to create an ambience. Effective floral design means ensuring that the material, the design and the location are harmonious. Composition, colour, form and function represent the crucial formulae for success. Paula demystifies the seemingly complex layers of skill needed to replicate her dynamic range of designs; she explains each lesson in turn, with beautiful arrangements shown as visual examples: understanding rhythm and repetition; scale and proportion; balance and harmony; colour, season and contrast and the use of foliage. Each lesson is a natural building block to gaining personal confidence and ability in floral arranging. As well as showcasing Paula’s signature designs, Flower School provides enormous creative scope with an impressive selection of floral ideas that can be adapted to suit a host of special occasions, from the intimate to the grand in scale. A seasonal flower directory concludes the book and provides quick reference for blooms all the year round. Flower School makes good floral design enjoyable and rewarding for everyone.

Flower School

'Wedding Flowers' taps into the desire to make your wedding day special and personal to you - investing time and thought into your choice of flower colour, fragrance and display is one way you can achieve this. Design your own wedding flowers or communicate your ideas effectively to a florist.

Wedding Flowers

An astonishingly beautiful yet totally practical book on flower arranging, Flowers, Flowers! gives suggestions for arrangements and bouquets suitable for all occasions and celebrations. Features many double-page spreads identifying a variety of flowers in a particular color range. 300 illustrations, 270 in color.

Inspired Arrangements for All Occasions

Flowers, Flowers!

The defining characteristic of Paula Pryke’s work is her consummate use of colour; her bold colour choices rendered her work unique and innovative in the infancy of her career, and throughout her work she has never failed to challenge and excite. Where Paula leads, others follow. In this invaluable book Paula shares her colour secrets; she explores colour influences, the psychological effects of personal responses, and gives very practical tips based on her own experience and personal skill set regarding how to use and combine colours. Above all, she shares her many wonderful designs with the intention to inspire and inform the reader.

Flower Design and Inspiration

Floristry Now

Paula Pryke has been helping brides and grooms plan weddings for nearly 25 years. This book showcases the talent and skill that have continued to make her one of the most sought-after wedding florists.

Exceptional Floral Design for Exceptional Occasions

Paula Pryke Wedding Flowers

Kevin Summers

This guide presents the very best of Paula Pryke's ideas for creating stunning floral displays. Paula shares her artistic vision and explains her use of colour, shape, and style to set the mood for any occasion. She also looks at the unique demands of fulfiling a client's briefer responding to seasonal restrictions. Over 80 arrangements are illustrated, each with instructions on how to re-create them. 65 of these are covered in more detail with a personal commentary by Paula. Divided into two styles, Classic and Contemporary, these include arrangements that have stood the test of time and become classics, as well as those that are at the cutting edge of flower artistry today. Accompanying text explains what makes each arrangement unique. Using florist bouquets, cut garden flowers, and even vegetables and other items, Paula's instructions allows anyone to create ingenious compositions that will add colour and style to the home.

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