Book Description
Living Color taps into the current trend for using flowers not only for special occasions, but also as a key visual element in home decoration. An explosion of intense color mixes are accompanied by unique flower arranging recipes that include quantities as well as exact floral ingredients and methods needed to recreate the innovative floral bouquets for which Paula Pryke is internationally famous.

Using teaching methods honed from the author's highly successful flower school, Living Color demonstrates, step-by-step, how to create the kind of professional flower arrangements to accessorize and transform your living space, infusing it with color and style. Beginners and amateurs alike can easily achieve the same polished creations that have made Paula Pryke Britain's leading floral artist in constant demand internationally by royalty, celebrities, presidents and heads of state.

Following in the footsteps of her other successful flower arranging books (Festive Flowers, Flair with Flowers, Flowers, Flowers! and Simple Flowers), Living Color is the new addition to her definitive and expanding library of books to teach the creation of exceptional environments.



About the Author
Paula Pryke is a highly successful, internationally known florist who is much in demand. She is known for her brilliantly colorful, off-beat combinations of flowers and foliage that infuse living spaces with color and style. Her school for flower arranging has been a great success and contributed to her continued popularity.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Everybody's life is enriched by color, which both energizes and lifts the spirits. What can be a better source than the spectrum of color that flowers and foliage have to offer? In Living Color, Paula Pryke's fine-tuned sense for wild and wonderful color mixes - which has made her Britain's leading color florist at work today - is given full rein as she shows how to mix-and-match key floral palettes with exceptional skill.

Drawing on her recognized talent as a master colorist, Paula explores the impact flower color has on our living spaces and how we respond to its presence. In the chapter Inspired by Nature, she considers how color and texture in the natural world can act as your guide, while in Seasonal Color Palettes we see how our color choices shift with the seasons. In Foliage Combinations she explains how foliage can tone down or raise the temperature of a display.

Renowned for her innovative use of containers, fabric and a wide variety of food material, Paula demonstrates in the chapter on Accessory Color the imaginative role all these elements can play in floral art. In Top Twenty Colors, she shares her favorite flower colors, while Color Charts creates a directory of these colors for easy reference.