Faux Flowers
Editorial Reviews
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Do you feel creatively challenged, economy minded, and in need of some simple tricks to spruce up your home? Who doesn't? Luckily, Faux Flowers provides a helpful solution to your decorating problems. Floral designer Richard Kollath and author Ed McCann team up to offer even the klutziest among us easy advice on how to achieve lasting elegant, dramatic, or just plain "charming" results with artificial flowers. By incorporating many of the classic principles of flower arranging (start your thinking with the container--not the blooms; use an odd number of stems; strip stems' bottom leaves to prevent cloudy water; always vary stem length to create asymmetry), the book serves as a friendly primer for the beginning floral artist. And yet even the most sophisticated flower arranger will be inspired by the variety and ingenuity of the 100 ideas presented here. Along with its lush photographs by Roy Gumpel, the book offers numerous helpful hints to support its contention that "faux is the way to go." One surprisingly clever sample tip: to enhance the illusion of reality, add water to plastic-stemmed flowers in clear glass containers. --Judy Fireman
Review
Even if your garden won't yield another fresh bouquet this year, you can continue to decorate your home - or dress your holiday table - with lively floral arrangements. In their new book, Faux Flowers, Country Living Contributing Editors Richard Kollath and Ed McCann share their secrets for creating silk flower arrangements that fool the eye, particularly by mimicking nature's imperfections. "Stems and petals that are perfectly, uniformly smoothed, opened, and otherwise tweaked look unnatural," they write. In the arrangement shown here, Kollath manipulated the tulip petals so that some are closed and others fully open. Other tricks include trimming leaves and petals with clippers to create asymmetry and mixing in dried natural materials like yarrow, millet, or wheat into a silk arrangement for a more organic touch. -Country Living
Faux Flowers
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