Wild Flowers: Projects and Inspirations [Illustrated] [Hardcover]

David Stark (Author), Avi Adler (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 4, 2003

For a decade renowned event designers David Stark and Avi Adler have been creating the art and fashion world's most talked-about parties, with flower arrangements that completely break the mold. Their easy-to-follow formulas show how a rummage through a hardware store, the attic, or even the refrigerator can transform everyday ingredients—colored gravel, feather boas, office supplies, and more—into glamorous, one-of-a-kind floral designs.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

In their colorful volume, event designers Stark and Adler serve up a spirited guide to transforming ordinary flowers into extraordinary decorations. They champion humble blooms like carnations and baby's breath and rhapsodize about the possibilities of flower paintings, flower clouds and flower snowmen (they also show how to make them). They praise vases made out of drinking glasses, too, and proclaim the pleasures of using office supplies such as stickers and labels and colored beverages from the corner store to enhance presentation. Thus, a pint glass stuck with black stickers and topped with a ball of white carnations becomes a striking black and white centerpiece, while a glass vase full of blue Gatorade and stuffed with baby's breath and a bit of maribou boa becomes an ethereal-looking arrangement. The photographs are vivid and the prose is enthusiastic, but the ideas are few and, some might argue, a little bit tacky, making this feel more like a fun vanity project than an authentic how-to.
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From the Inside Flap

For a decade renowned event designers David Stark and Avi Adler have been creating the art and fashion world's most talked-about parties, with flower arrangements that completely break the mold. Their easy-to-follow formulas show how a rummage through a hardware store, the attic, or even the refrigerator can transform everyday ingredients—colored gravel, feather boas, office supplies, and more—into glamorous, one-of-a-kind floral designs.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: Clarkson Potter; 1 edition (February 4, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0609609386
• ISBN-13: 978-0609609385
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 7.8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,726,173 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a fun and colorful idea book, February 9, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Wild Flowers: Projects and Inspirations (Hardcover)

this book gives a fresh new look to decorating with (or without) flowers. it is smart, catchy and fun to look at. the use of everyday objects makes all of the projects tangible and less daunting. much more interesting and less fussy than martha stewart!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun and full of inspiration, April 3, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Wild Flowers: Projects and Inspirations (Hardcover)

This is a book that is fun to read and to look at. There are beautiful and amazing pictures of what you can do with everyday items around your house, or, with things you can purchase for very little money. At the same time, the book is full of great ideas to copy or get you started creating your own wild decorations next time you entertain. I can't wait to put water tubes with fresh flowers in my lawn this summer !!

5.0 out of 5 stars It's fun, it's easy - It's Fun and Easy!, August 23, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Wild Flowers: Projects and Inspirations (Hardcover)

Mr. Stark takes all the guesswork out of those wonderful arrangements you see in magazines and on television and shows you how you can create marvelous displays for yourself. A must have for those who entertain as well as those who just love to be creative and enjoy surrounding themselves with beauty.