Quellen meiner Floristik/ Wellsprings of my Floristry

Gregor Lersch

Donau Verlag

Gregor Lersch's Principles of Design is a comprehensive and universally appreciated book for florists and floral designers. The purpose is to describe both the internal and external principles of design by means of clear concise notes and illustration; many examples are also enhanced by Gregor's distinctive line drawings. This is certainly a best-selling book which any serious florist or floral designer should not be without.

Principles Of Floral Design

DONAU

Sources of Creativity draws an idiosyncratic portrait of the leading thinker on floristry, Gregor Lersch. It moves from the day-before-yesterday to the day-after-tomorrow; from formative cultural traditions through to Gregor Lersch’s visionary approach. The roots of design are spun together with futuristic creations, and entrepreneurial investment decisions are fused with contemporary presentational ideas; Sources is a book which seeks to uncover those inexhaustible sources of inspiration essential for creativity; Gregor Lersch seems to have succeeded in his mission. Now his book seeks to conveys the system through which everyone will, in principle, be able to develop their own approaches to uncovering and drawing upon their sources inspiration. Do not however expect to find a guide-book with a set of simple instructions; there are too many varied examples; the thoughts are fragmentary; the sources idiosyncratic. Do on the other hand expect a plethora of thoroughly contradictory impulses; they will provoke, possibly even evoke perplexity or an impulse to contradict; and in part surely, they will also give rise to spontaneous expressions of agreement and sheer delight. Everyone who works creatively, and is looking for new sources of inspiration, will find an infinite abundance of impulses in Gregor Lersch’s self portrait; every designer will find ways of redefining herself again and again. Those who are ‘only’ looking for new ideas in floristry are also guaranteed to find what they are looking for. This book identifies five fundamental areas of know-ledge and practice that are essential to any design work. It thus offers help to self-help, using the example of Gregor Lersch’s work to open up sources of inspiration for the areas of knowledge; and it thus helps people of the most diverse talents and inclinations to develop an approach to their own particular sources.

Sources of Creativity – Ways to Inspirations

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Home Improvement & Design

Floral Design Edition

This book depicts an internationally comprehensible and overall design guideline that is rich in illustrations. The arrangements shown here were especially created for this publication. Using containers of simplified design, they form a pure, clear and calm architectural structure that admits neither an excess of fads or trends nor any fixation on any given Zeitgeist. These arrangements exclude external influences and interpolations from the professional field of floristry. Their structure, and the depiction of that structure, are exclusively determined by the elements of the plants that have been used. The purpose of this publication is to describe both the internal and external principles of structure that underscore the floral design graphics presented. Therefore, emotional descriptions and mere technical instructions have been reduced to a minimum. Despite the number of design examples illustrated here, this book offers only a small excerpt from the vast spectrum of opportunities made possible - even initiated - by the design guideline delineated throughout. Consequently, floral designers should find inspiration herein for the creation of independent views, contours and alternatives in their design work. The color code is a significant help for those teaching and learning the art of floristry, to be able to clearly assign the broad spectrum of work to the design categories.

Principles of Floral Design

Arts & Photography

FloralDesign Edition by kriene

One of the sources of inspiration for Floral Design is technique, or craftsmanship. A designer who has professional techniques, processes and craft skills at the finger tips will always find ever more exciting new ways to present the beauty and variety of flowers and plants. This is the reason "Floral Craftsmanship" provides a wide range of inspirations, systematically illustrating the processes involved in 60 activities and techniques of Floral Design, introducing each one in word and image and describing the concrete use of each one on the basis of 150 individual arrangements.Several step-by-step photos and sketches provide a detailed explanation of the constructions and arrangements. Helpful supporting constructions are also described, as are several forms and shapes that can be used in various different ways, plus the most cost-effective floral materials and other components.Today especially, as more and more people wish to learn and experience Floral Design, the subject is transforming into an exciting mixture of landscape design, table design and ornamental culture. This book is a response to this tendency. Gregor Lersch's name vouches for the professional integrity of the work; new perspectives are provided to an entire profession, the identity of the profession is expanded, yet always retaining its definition through flowers and plants.

Floral Craftsmanship

Jürgen Potthoff

Crafts & Hobbies

FloralDesign Edition by kriener-potthoff communications gmbh

The game of opposites is – not only in floristry – one of the most expressive design elements. It is particularly important to find the right dosage of two extreme positions in order to find the level between tension and rest, colour and non-colour, diversity and reduction that we intend, and can then apply to make our emotional statement. This can not be achieved without proper practice. Gregor Lersch has analysed the main contrasts in floristry which are used to steer emotion. Using many step-by-step examples, he illustrates the possible transformations and nuances. The examples are designed to help identify what happens when we make certain changes, so that the designer is able to make informed decisions between harmony and contrast, and is thus able to develop a feel for the correct dosage at a given moment. In this way he becomes more and more skilled in the application of an elementary design principle.

The Relationship of Contrasts

This study book deals extensively with the design of floral arrangements for Advent and Christmas, as well as with a range of effective forms for exhibition presentations. Above all, the particular techniques needed for technically sound execution are described in detail, so that they can be followed systematically. Using the obligatory FloralDesign Edition fold-outs, this study book also gives the reader a second easy to use overview of a comprehensive list of all the techniques. Some techniques that recur frequently in Advent and Christmas floristry are described separately; as are the techniques for making certain parts of an arrangement, e.g. candleholders, multi-pronged forks, etc. Practical tips and detailed elucidation of technical terms complete the explanations. Since different design intentions often require different craft techniques, it is important for us to illustrate not only the various arrangements and the techniques for their execution, but also to explain which individual design decisions were responsible for the final form. "Form follows function" was one of the Bauhaus maxims which still applies today. Following Kant one could also say: "Form without content is empty. Content without form is blind". In this sense - and providing references to several other text books - we keep on reminding the reader of the connection to the core design issues.

Modern Floral Christmas Works

Contemporary bridal bouquet techniques. Hand-tied bouquets for all seasons. Free standing bound workpieces. In the second edition of Gregor Lersch's book Floral Craftsmanship, the existing range of descriptions of floral techniques is now supplemented with the broad theme of "tied bouquets and what has developed from them". Here bouquets and above all bridal bouquets, free tied arrangements, as well as other things of which one can actually only guess that they originated in a bouquet, are introduced. Contemporary examples of applications of techniques, as well as of their meaning within the design process are provided. It is afterall only in the execution that the chosen technique proves itself to be sensible and intelligent. 150 arrangements relevant to design practice are supported with a separate technical section and the obligatory pull out margin in order that each arrangement can be practically copied.

Floral Craftsmanship 2 - Bound Plus

Floral Diminutives – Different/Authentic

To appreciate the importance of dry floristry, it is worth taking a brief look into history. Homo sapiens has been treating and preserving plants or parts of them since time immemorial-primarily in order to be able to live from them through the winter. It not infrequently happened that such preserved foodstuffs also decorated peasant homes, for instance in the form of fruit or onions hanging from the ceiling. Dried plants and fruits also soon appeared as religious decorations. The Egyptians and Romans paid worship to their gods with preserved plants, as did the Incas on the South American continent. In our more northern climes, the desire to keep the flowers of summer through into the winter was probably the strongest motive for drying plants. When the variety and colorfulness offered by industrial production were not yet generally available, people used dried flowers to carry the colors of the bright season forward into the dark time of the year. Today, it is especially the natural colors which bring delight to contemporary aesthetes. Also the fact that many dried flowers fade-especially after the first winter-is no argument against them, but rather one in their favour. This is perhaps a slightly morbid charm, but it is one which dried flowers possess, and it is not artificial but absolutely genuine. They cannot exude brilliance and freshness, like their fresh-cut counterparts, and nor do they seek to. And their porosity and fragility-making advocates of silk flowers disparagingly refer to them as "nature's scrap"-also mean that people take care of them, handle them with care, seek the right places for them, and generally make sure that their precious beauty is not destroyed.

Form of Nature

kriener + potthoff communications

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