What do you do with a bunch
of flowers you've just picked from the garden or unwrapped
from the florist's?
Chances are that, like most people, you'll plunge them into
a jug or vase of water, perhaps pausing to cut off the bottom
inch or so of stem or strip the leaves before swiftly arranging
the blooms to your liking.
This was pretty much my approach before I worked with the
interior designer Tricia Guild on a new book in which she
demonstrates her highly original approach to arranging flowers.
There's hardly a large mixed bunch between the book's covers.
Rather, there are graphic arrangements of dark red dahlias
in twos and threes in clean-cut Fifties vases; exotic clashes
of magenta gladioli and orange marigolds that seem straight
from a temple in India; blowsy pink roses in vintage teacups;
or an indoor urban woodland with delphinium spires, twiggy
branches and dangling hyacinth bells that runs the length
of a mantelpiece.
"As a designer, flowers provide me with endless inspiration
for patterns and colourways, so I'm often looking at them
in an almost abstract way," Tricia explains. "I
think that's what helps to free me up and use them in these
unexpected ways"
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