History of Flower Arrangement |
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Julia Berrall Widely regarded as the standard work on its subject and as essential reading for every serious student of the art of flower arranging, this fully illustrated survey not only provides flower arrangers (amateur or professional) with an invaluable source of inspiration and reference: it enables them to study the different principles of design which have prevailed in the East and West down the ages, from the time of ancient Egypt. Special emphasis is placed on influences on contemporary practice, such as Dutch and Flemish flower painting, seventeenth and eighteenth-century French floral decoration, Victorian bouquets and the flower art of Japan. In other chapters Mrs Berrall discusses flower arrangement during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, in England and China and later in Colonial America. A valuable feature is the inclusion of lists of those flowers which were particularly favoured during each period. |
