Books
Sympathy
Sympathy, part 4 in the step by step series from Life3. Order it here and now!
Christmas emotions
Once again the three floral designers of Life3 (Per Benjamin, Tomas De Bruyne and Max van de Sluis) join forces and surprise the floral world with a new volume: Christmas emotions.
Each of them loves the holiday season with a passion. The preparations, the wonderful scents of traditional meals intermingled with the smell of the typical Christmas flowers, the sounds of Christmas carols in the background … all add to that typical atmosphere. In this book Per, Max and Tomas show traditional Christmas floral art, but they take it one step further. They use traditional flowers and materials, but in different colours, daring compositions or unexpected combinations. Elaborate reports of six extraordinary Christmas parties, each with their own atmosphere and emotional splendour, show just a glimpse of the endless possibilities. Christmas floral art like you’ve never seen before!
Price: 80 euro + delivery.
Creativity with flowers
Have you also admired the lovely floral works made by the world renowned designers of Life 3:
Tomas De Bruyne, Per Benjamin and Max van de Sluis? And have you also often wondered how
they do that?
In this brand-new series Creative with Flowers Tomas, Per and Max tell all. They share their
knowledge and experience with young professionals and with everyone who’s passionate about
floral designs. Step by step they show the reader how certain techniques are done. Each of them
makes 7 creations around one central theme. Go backstage with these fantastic step by step books
and learn from the masters!
Authors: Per Benjamin, Max Van de Sluis, Tomas De Bruyne
Photography: Helén Pe, Pim van der Maden, Kurt Dekeyzer
Size: 23 x 23 cm
Number of pages: 96 pages
Hard cover
200 colour illustrations
English edition - German edition – Dutch edition
Price/book: 30 euro + delivery
International Annual Floral Art 05/06
The brand-new publication ”International Annual Floral Art 05/06” aims to give a state of the art of innovative floral art at world level. It is an invaluable source of inspiration for the professional floral artist, but also for everyone who appreciates floral beauty. The Annual of Floral Art collects more than 200 number one compositions of 106 strong personalities from 22 countries. These florist show today´s creativity in a unique volume of more than 300 page. A professional jury judged all works one by one and awarded the Golden Leaf to Naoki Sasaki, Japan, the Silver Leaf to Jacques Castagne, France and the Bronze Leaf to Daniel Santamaria, Spain. But above all this book makes a splendid reference work offering an overview of recent development in the world of floral art.
Price: 70 euro + delivery
Now it is finally here! If possible even better than the first one!
Price: 70 euro + delivery
Wedding emotions
After their very successful debut Emotions by Life3, the three top florists Per Benjamin , Tomas De Bruyne and Max van de Sluis want to surprise the floral world with a new book: Wedding Emotions by Life3 . Bridal floral art like it has never been shown before. Obviously this beautiful album pays a lot of attention to the bouquet as well as to corsages, boutonnières, car decorations and church ornamentations. But, Life3 also adds another dimension. This publication contains elaborate reports of six extraordinary weddings, each with their own atmosphere which is materialised in the book. Each wedding is set in completely different surroundings with special, emotional splendour: a country festivity, a cool white ice wedding, an art – nouveau atmosphere, romantic ceremony in a small chapel… Both setting and place determine the specific mood of the Big Day.
The three world-famous floral designers of Life3 give their best in this splendid edition, staying faithful to their own style and at the same time ever so innovating and original. Bridal work for the 21 st century that will undoubtedly inspire a great many florists!
Technical details:
Authors:
Per Benjamin, Tomas De Bruyne, Max Van de Sluis
Photography:
Helén Pe, Pim van der Maden, Kurt Dekeyzer
Size: 33 x 24,5 cm
Pages : 160
Hard cover
150 illustrations
English edition
German edition
ISBN 90-5856-175-5
Price: 80 euro + delivery
Elements
Swedish master florist Per Benjamin won the
Swedish championships in 1997, the Scandinavian championships in the year
2000 and became world champion in floristry in spring 2002.
According to Per, floral art is all about emotions. Bringing flowers to
the people is translating and communicating emotions, is showing them
that the future has always something good, something beautiful to offer.
In this book he chares his personal ideas around flowers and creativity.
His unstoppable curiosity is his driving force when finding new materials
as well as new ways to use the old ones.
Per Benjamin is without any doubt one of the greatest 'technicians' in
the world of floristry. He is here showing a wide range of arrangements,
from the well- known playful and colourful, almost kitschy pieces to the
more natural, transparent, discrete ones. However, they always manage
quite easily to draw one's attention, in an elegant, charming way.
Helén Pe provided the fantastic photography and managed to beautifully
capture the complexity in many of Per's creations in numerous close-ups.
They have in this book worked in the studio as well as out in the fantastic
Swedish nature, showing the moods and feelings of seasons, materials and
of course the flowers.
Especially the photography made at the Icehotel in the north of Sweden,
ice, snow and flowers, what a combination!
This book really contains amazing pieces of work!
Technical details:
- " Author. Per Benjamin
- Photography: Helén Pe
- Hardcover
- 33 x 24,5 cm
- 152 pages
- + 150 photos
- ISBN 90-5856-132-1
Emotions
Emotions, the first book from Life3, Per Benjamin,
Max van de Sluis and Tomas De Bruyne , 3 of the top florists in the world.
They have since the World Cup in 2002 been working together internationally
in Life3, a cooperation to intermediate the passion for flowers and the
handicraft.
Floristry is the art of translating and intermediate emotions with flowers!
This the three florists show in photos of outmost quality and poetic texts over more than 130 pages. We get a fantastic possibility to share the three designers thoughts and ideas about flowers and emotions, all presented in there own national and personal styles. We also get to follow them more personally in photos and in text where they share there ideas about the profession and its future.
Let your self be inspired by this breathtaking book that talks to heart and mind… everything is about emotions!
Price: 65 euro + delivery
First Class Floral Design (Out of stook!)
Three different books in a series
Covering the subjects wedding, christmas and botanical objects.
Over 300 pages of high quality photos with a wide selection to be inspreded
from.
Some of the florists taking part is the world champion Per Benjamin, Gregor
Lersch, european champiom Monica Nieland both from Germany, Elly Lin from
Taiwan and Taivo Piller from Estonia. All florists chare their ideas and
thoughts about floristic, the handicraft and its future, all in english
and japanes.
Price: 100 euro + delivery Out of stook!
Nordic masters of flower arrangement
In this masterpiece book of 180 pages the 20 best florists from Sweden
, Denmark and Norway show there personal styles. With full page photos
of top quality this is pure inspiration for florists as well as for other
estetical people. Amongst the florists we can mention; Linda Johnsen,
Tor Gundersen, Stein Are Hansen from Norway, Johanna Johansson, Per Benjamin,
Tomas Kallin, Nicklas Jensen from Sweden and Bo Ingemann, Jane Norgaard
from Denmark. Short facts and botanical information all in english.
Price: 70 euro + delivery