A Passion for Flowers by Roehm, Carolyne
A Passion for Flowers (Premium Collectible Hardcover Edition)
A Masterclass in High-Style Floral Design, Creative Seasonal Arrangements, and the Art of Elegant Table Landscapes
A Masterclass in High-Style Floral Design, Creative Seasonal Arrangements, and the Art of Elegant Table Landscapes
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: A Passion for Flowers
- Author: Carolyne Roehm
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc., New York
- Publication Date: 1997 (October 7th First Edition / Printed in Italy)
- ISBN-10: 0067575137
- ISBN-13: 9780067575130
- Edition Details: First Edition / First Printing. The highly celebrated, foundational debut title that launched the author's legendary career in lifestyle and horticultural publishing.
- Binding: Original publisher's premium full-cloth boards, structurally firm with crisp title stamping along the spine face.
- Physical Format: Large Oversized Quarto / Folio (approx. 31 cm x 24 cm), 288 pages. Lavishly produced with 250 breathtaking full-colour studio photographs, step-by-step styling "recipes," and instructional design grids.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
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The Book: Very Good Plus (VG+)
- Exterior Boards: The original oversized full-cloth hardboards are exceptionally straight, solid, flat, and square. The spine face is completely unbroken, undamaged, firm, and uncreased, indicating immaculate long-term shelf placement. Casing displays only very limited, microscopic storage shelf-wear along the corner tips, completely consistent with premium domestic archiving. The volume is protected inside a premium cellophane cover sleeve.
- Interior: The structural text block binding and heavy page signatures are remarkably tight, square, and firm. Internal leaves and hundreds of high-gloss color plates are exceptionally clean, crisp, bright white, and fully intact. Completely free of contemporary owner signatures, modern text highlighting, user marginalia, dog-ears, or dealer pencil notations.
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The Dust Jacket: Very Good Plus (VG+)
- Condition & Integrity: The original large-format illustrated graphic dust jacket is present, retaining its sharp visual clarity and deep coloration without any sun-fading, edge chips, or paper loss. It exhibits only very limited, minor signs of vintage shelf wear along the extreme upper edges, now completely stabilized and beautifully preserved behind the premium archival cellophane sleeve wrapper.
Synopsis & Historical Value
First released in New York in 1997 and masterfully printed in Italy, Carolyne Roehm's debut masterpiece, A Passion for Flowers, stands as an unassailable classic that fundamentally transformed the modern landscape of domestic entertaining and floral design. Moving past the clumsy, uninspired practice of simply throwing stems into a vase, Roehm teaches readers how to compose striking arrangements that capture a blossom's raw, natural beauty.
The volume is brilliantly organized by season to profile various blossoms as they come into their peak glory—ranging from clusters of spring daffodils and summer sunflowers to dramatic winter holiday displays. Roehm pairs her deep aesthetic knowledge with practical, step-by-step bouquet "recipes," detailing advanced conditioning secrets for sensitive blooms, container selection logic, and core elements of structural floral design. Featuring 250 breathtaking, high-fidelity color photographs, this beautifully preserved first-edition copy offers a timeless treasure trove of visual inspiration for master decorators, home hosts, and rare book collectors worldwide.
Author Profile: Carolyne Roehm
Carolyne Roehm is an elite American lifestyle designer, tastemaker, photojournalist, and prolific author universally celebrated as a premier authority on high-style living, gardening, and fashion. After an illustrious fashion career working as a top designer alongside Oscar de la Renta, Roehm transitioned her immense creative vision toward the decorative arts, completing a formative residency at the legendary Paris flower shop Moulie Savart. A frequent contributor to national media like Good Morning America and host of Country Homes, Country Gardens, she is renowned for her philosophy of "luxury for everyone," masterfully mixing high-end style with common backyard flora like baby's breath, Queen Anne's lace, and marigolds. Her definitive design books remain standard reference texts for global event planners and private antiquarian collectors alike.
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