New T itle Architecture - Lars Müller Publishers

New Title Art /Design
Available August 2012
16.5 × 24.8 cm, 6 ½ × 9 ½ in
approx. 512 pages
approx. 200 color illustrations
paperback
ISBN 978-3-03778-313-9, English
EUR 58.– GBP 50.– USD / CAD 85.–
Encyclopedia of Flowers
Flower Works by Makoto Azuma photographed by Shunsuke Shiinoki
Edited by Kyoko Wada
Design: Kenya Hara
A book for anyone who loves fl owers, photography, or art
The book’s illustrations show more than 2000 fl owers and plants
The book contains an index listing the scientifi c names of all the featured
plants
Flowers have been a universal cultural object for millennia. They are an important
aesthetic element in everyday life worldwide, and have played a highly symbolic role
in art throughout the ages. Over the past few years, Makoto Azuma has created a
furor in the art world with his fl oral installations, in which he creates unusual new
shapes from plants and fl owers and their component parts. Inspired by the Japanese
tradition of ikebana—the art of fl ower arranging—Azuma creates novel and previously
unseen aesthetics by bringing together unusual plants that wouldn’t usually meet in
nature—some of them exotic —in extraordinary arrangements. Shunsuke Shiinoki, who
opened the “haute-couture” fl orists Jardin des Fleurs in Tokyo in 2002 in association
with Makoto Azuma, captured these exceptional fl oral installations in extraordinary
photographs.
MAKOTO AZUMA, born in 1976 in the prefecture of Fukuoka, Japan, is a fl orist
and artist. His plant and fl ower installations have been appearing at prominent art
institutions worldwide since 2005.
SHUNSUKE SHIINOKI, born in 1976, is a fl orist and photographer. In 2002, he and
Makoto Azuma opened the “haute-couture” fl orists Jardin des Fleurs in Tokyo.
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