Flower Market: Botanical Style at Home

(Hardback)

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In 2013 designer and illustrator Michelle Mason co-founded Mason & Painter, a vintage emporium on Columbia Road, in east London, a street famed for its Sunday flower market. Many of the vintage items sold in the shop are lovingly restored to sell as containers for flowers and plants. Michelle's inspiration for Flower Market: Botanical Style at Home is the wide variety of seasonal plants and flowers available right outside her shop. Buying locally and in tune with the seasons is at the heart of her philosophy Using salvage and reclaimed objects as props and backdrops, Flower Market: Botanical Style at Home is brimming with texture, colour, pattern and exciting and inspiring ways to group and display flowers, plants and succulents. In Flower Market: Botanical Style at Home Michelle draws on her design experience, playing with shapes, colours and textures to create combinations that work well together, blending layers of hue and pattern, to show how to make the most of fresh flower purchases and bring botanical style into the home. Informative and engaging, and stunningly illustrated with Michelle's own photographs, this book begs to be picked up by anyone interested in the botanical world with an eye for vintage charm.

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"A beautiful book...full of inspiration to create your own imaginative floral displays."

"It is to all the followers of floral designers on Instagram that this book will appeal. Every chapter has pages of impeccably styled, elegant images. For anyone after a 'look book' of what flowers are available from a local market and how to combine them, this will be a useful resource. If this encourages and entices a new generation to go out and find flowers...it gets my vote."

Author Bio

Designer, illustrator and co-owner of successful vintage emporium Mason & Painter, Michelle Mason is passionate about interior product design. Known for her strong illustrative style she continues to inspire with exquisitely designed products for clients including British Library, Transport For London and St Pancras International. Endorsed as the stylists favourite by theSunday Times Style magazine, Michelle has worked with some of the UKs most established manufacturers from the potteries of Stoke-on-Trent to Sheffields last remaining pewter factory. Her own products have regularly appeared in the international design press and she frequently sits on judging panels, such as Boost, launched by the Southbank Centre and the Observer to find the next generation of new design talent.

Mason & Painter opened in Columbia Road, London E2, in 2013 to great acclaim and Michelle was immediately invited to create pop-up stores at the Southbank Centre and Kew Gardens. Her interest in styling with flowers and plants is intrinsically linked to the flower market; which literally unfolds on her doorstep every week and where she gathers seasonal produce to decorate the shop.

She has been featured in articles for Guardian Weekend, Sainsbury'smagazine and Living Etc and has contributed articles to Design ExchangeandTrail Blazer magazines.