Inked & Blossom
€29.90French floral artist Sarah Willemart grew up surrounded by flowers and developed a great interest in floral design from an early age. The art of tattooing in its most diverse forms is a more recent passion.
French floral artist Sarah Willemart grew up surrounded by flowers and developed a great interest in floral design from an early age. The art of tattooing in its most diverse forms is a more recent passion.
Jouni Seppänen is internationally known as a master florist. After his first book Innovations, Jouni Seppänen introduces himself in his new publication Flower Stories as a designer with a great interest in beautiful women, jewellery, hair design, haute couture and Finnish history.
Japanese Hideyuki Niwa grew up surrounded by flowers. Familiar from an early age with their qualities, vulnerabilities and potential, a career as a floral designer was a logical next step. At the age of 20, he graduated from Tokyo’s Flower College, which immediately opened doors at Kamon Flower Gate Co Ltd; a rich and fertile working environment where his talent only sharpened.
For Japanese floral artist Manabu Hashiguchi, the wreath is not only the favourite form of expression, but also the most expressive. Its symbolism is universal. Without beginning or end, the wreath stands for eternity and the endless process of renewal in nature.
The combination of Ikebana and haiku results in a more than successful marriage. The similarity between the two arts goes far beyond their common Japanese origins. The seductive simplicity of the haiku, its sparse use of words and subtlety, its silences and deep grounds, its rhythms and seasons… These are only some of the characteristics that Haiku shares with Ikebana.