In the Company of Flowers [Hardcover]

Ron Morgan (Author), Keith Lewis (Photographer)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 22, 2005

This beautiful book presents a detailed, step-by-step approach to creating unique and elegant table settings. Using a dramatic floral arrangement as the centerpiece, Ron Morgan shows how to maximize the overall effect through the creative use of props and everyday decorative items. Over 220 colorful photographs detail 70 table settings that are inexpensive to create yet have high visual and decorative impact. The book includes a wealth of practical advice, including when to cut flowers, how to make them last longer, choosing the right container, acceptable substitutions, finishing touches, and much more.

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About the Author

Ron Morgan, Author/Floral Designer
Photographs by Pamela J
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Ron Morgan, an internationally recognized floral designer with over 25 years of experience, has lectured throughout the United States, Europe, and Australia. He is especially well known to the garden club circuit, where he dazzles packed audiences with his wit, knowledge, and creative talents. He has a unique ability to turn the ordinary into the exquisite, using an unusual variety of plant materials and containers, artfully arranging them into creative masterpieces. His tablescapes are legendary for their creativity and visual impact. Mr. Morgan lives in Alameda, CA.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Source Book Publ., Half Full Press (December 22, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0971955239
• ISBN-13: 978-0971955233
• Product Dimensions: 12.3 x 8.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #378,915 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Addressing Flowers, October 2, 2006

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Grady Harp (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: In the Company of Flowers (Hardcover)

Ron Morgan is an artist, an assemblage artist, who substitutes paint brushes and oils and canvases with living flowers and the components of still life. In this magnificently illustrated book Morgan shares his famous skills in the most congenial way, allowing us as viewer to appreciate his artworks by sharing the materials with which he works.

Not that this art book is a 'how to do it' format: Morgan is far more sophisticated a writer than that! He simply shows us how containers and accoutrements blend with the vivid and inspiring colors, shapes and forms of his floral choices into making creations for the table, or mantle or any spot both explosions of celebration or contemplative altars.

The photography in this book is the other half of what makes it work so well, and that aspect is in the competent and sensitive hands (and eyes) of Keith Lewis. Together these two artists demonstrate how to create beauty from both mundane tools as well as from exotic containers. This is a feast for the eye as well as an addition to the library for those who have a special concern for presentation at the table! Grady Harp, October 06

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An enthusiastically recommended source of inspiration, April 10, 2006

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: In the Company of Flowers (Hardcover)

In the Company of Flowers presents masterpieces of floral arrangement and table setting by legendary floral designer Ron Morgan. Over 180 full-color photographs on every page, some of them two-page spreads, reveal 60 unique table settings that incorporate flowers, fine silverware, and centerpieces into breathtaking examples of transient beauty. The photographs speak for themselves; In the Company of Flowers has very little text, aside from a few words by Ron Morgan, a synopsis of the materials and containers used for each table setting, and a handful of tips about caring for flowers. An enthusiastically recommended source of inspiration, and a restful work of wonder that invites the reader to simply page through its contents. Also highly recommended is Morgan's previous volume of centerpieces, "The Center of Attention".

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars True floral magic, March 31, 2007

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Rebecca Short (Macungie PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: In the Company of Flowers (Hardcover)

Because this book is so beautiful it is truly inspiring. Morgan is a true artist. The photographs are lovely depicting unusual, elegant and even a few quite simple designs. It's a must for floral arrangers.