Customer Reviews

Art of Floral Arranging, The: Learning from the Master Florists at Flower School New York

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(6)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

This is a book, just as described in the other reviews, of step by step images and text for 7 arrangements. Only one of those involves fewer than a dozen (most are more than 2 dozen) stems. if you're looking for small arrangement help, there's probably a better choice (I am still looking for it).

The book is pretty, though.

Eileen Johnson's "The Art of Floral Arranging" is a beautiful book, but definitely not a "how to" guide. I purchased it expecting to see basic floral design techniques that I could use to make gifts and arrangements for my house. But while the photos are gorgeous, the book does not feature the kind of step by step instruction that I'd hoped for. If you want pretty pictures, "The Art of Floral Arranging" is a good choice. But if you're looking for the "how-to's" of flower design, try your local craft store or community college instead!

This book is absolutely beautiful.
It's a great book because it would appeal to the beginner and the advanced.
I had never arranged flowers before I had read this book and I found that I could do so after the first reading.
My sister, who is experienced with flowers, found several new designs.
Flower arranging is so much fun!

The title of this book says "The Art of Floral arranging". Not much was shown in the way of "Art". The designs require many many blossoms for somewhat interesting, but not particularly beautiful results. The Subtitle of the book says "Learning from...". It is not possible to learn from this book, since there are no instructions, and the number of examples are very limited and reproducing anything resembling their example too costly. I have since sold my book back to Amazon. The resale price better reflected the value of this book than the original price.

Honestly reading this book and seeing the designs I do better arrangements and I've never taken a class not impressed by the books pictures or arrangements very generic.

Ok...so this book has a few great pics, but overall very disappointed. How often will you be creating designs SO large that they require ladders and scaffolding to complete? My guess, not too much. This book is more of a 'mini-biography' for some of the big names in floral design from NY.
If you're looking for an instructional book or even some new design ideas, then this is NOT the right book.
Overall - don't waste your money.

While this was an interesting book, it is not for the novice floral arranger. I expected this to be a step by step recipe for simple arrangements. It is more of a "how to take it to the next level" for seasoned designers.

I love this book for its size and pictures explaining the technique of flower arranging rather than being too wordy. It made a perfect Christmas hostess gift and at the right price. I ordered several and brought one to each party and sent a book to each of my sisters for Christmas. I had never used Amazon to send a book overseas and was surprised how easy and reasonable it it through them.

This book is lovely to look at and wonderful for visual ideas with step-by-step instructions on how to create those arrangements pictured. Not an overview of styles and mechanics.

What little there is is very beautiful, but I somehow expected more. Pretty book though.