U houdt van bloemen en wordt helemaal gelukkig van een mooie bos in huis? Wie niet! Met behulp van dit handige boek en de vakkundige uitleg van floriste Gudrun Cottenier maakt u uw boeket voortaan helemaal zelf. Bovendien bewijst dit boek dat dit helemaal geen fortuin hoeft te kosten.
Kiripi Katembo (1979-2015) photographs the urban chaos of the metropolis of Kinshasa. He brings out both the absurd and the beautiful. Reflections, dizziness, rescaling, colour contrasts and saturated shades of black make Kinshasa and its twin cities shine as never before.
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.
Ook naar het standpunt van de jager werd geluisterd. Een positieve visie op de jager, als vriend van de natuur, wordt verwoord door Frédéric Haÿez (Directeur van de Waalse afdeling van de Royal Saint-Hubert Club de Belgique). Hij heeft het over de ecologische rol van de jacht en het professionalisme van de jager. Tevens wordt aandacht besteed aan de wildkalender, de evolutie van de mentaliteit en het wildbestand, en de toekomst van de jacht.
Wild op het bord, een must voor elke fijnproever!
Jan Cox (1919-1980) was born in The Hague and spent his youth in Amsterdam. Shortly before the Second World War he moved with his parents and brother, composer Harry Cox, to Antwerp and studied art history at Ghent University.
Fibre-Fixed. Composites in Design shows and explains what can be achieved when fibres are combined with another material – usually a plastic or a bioplastic – to form fibre-reinforced composites.
‘Wispering Flowers’ wil Ikebana arrangementen tonen geïnspireerd door de schoonheid van één enkele soort bloemen.
Marcel Vrignaud can rightly be called a European Ikebana pioneer. After studying for three and a half years in Nagoya, Japan, Vrignaud founded his own Ikebana Floral Art Centre in Paris, where he is still one of the permanent professors. With a wide variety of nationalities in his training centre, Marcel Vrignaud’s style and vision is spread worldwide and the less popular Ohara style is revived every time. Readers will find in My Ikebana a reflection of the fantastic creations of this Ohara master, arranged with a multitude of plants, collected during the different seasons, in original combinations, unusual vases and bowls and in all known and less known Ohara bouquet styles: moribana, heika, landscape, rimpa, bunjin, morimono, freestyle, ikebana sculpture, micro ikebana,…
After the successful Ikebana Today (2006) and Contemporary Ikebana (2008), Stichting Kunstboek completes its Ikebana trilogy with Ikebana through all Seasons.
The ultimate reference in every rose lover’s library! The mysterious story of a more than 4 century old quest for the black rose. Does the black rose exist, or has it ever existed? The complete history of this noble flower, based on authentic research, shows that the quest for the black rose goes back to the very earliest botanical writings. The Quest for the Black Rose is a prestigious edition of 43 by 31 centuries with splendid artistic photographs of old and contemporary roses. This utmost high-quality book also contains beautiful old colour drawings of dark roses. Prominent florists of world renown show creations with this unique flower.
For the Dutch edition, see ‘De zoektocht naar de zwarte roos’
Kobe, artistic pseudonym of Jacques Saelens (1950-2014), made sculptures that flirt with two-dimensionality his trademark. His broad, thin figures hardly use the third dimension and incarnate quite a few contradictions.
The Japanese artist Hiroshi Harada left his homeland for Paris more than forty years ago in search of a new artistic language and structure as a painter.
In deze unieke uitgave vertelt Akira Oshima het verhaal van de enige echte Japanse kaiseki-keuken, rijkelijk geïllustreerd en uiteraard met tientallen heerlijke gerechten. Kaiseki, de authentieke Japanse keuken is dankzij de schitterende bijdragen van specialisten Patrick Faas en Katarzyna Cwiertka uitgegroeid tot een werkelijk uniek referentiewerk voor allen die de ziel en de kunst van de Japanse keuken willen ontdekken.
