About this Event
Celebrated floral designer Gabriela Salazar of La Musa de las Flores is joined by Lucy Hunter to launch The Artistry of Flowers.
PLEASE NOTE: This free event is first come, first served; RSVPs are encouraged. Seating is limited. Doors open at 5:30 pm. Can't attend?
The Artistry of Flowers encourages everyone to live with florals and to appreciate their beauty as we appreciate art. Celebrated floral designer Gabriela Salazar teaches us how to look at flowers and understand their characteristics from an artist’s perspective. By exploring different shapes, colors, and textures, she shows us how to understand flowers and their living, transitory nature.
Drawing on her painting background, Salazar looks at floral arrangements as compositions. She highlights which type of blooms are best for different designs and shares building blocks for floral designs ranging from simple and sculptural to complex and colorful, including arrangements for any mood and different decor. Salazar inspires us to explore our creativity, empowering us to design our own arrangements.
Combining philosophical and practical tips, such as appreciating how flowers change over time and working with fragility The Artistry of Flowers is a treatise on flower appreciation. The stunning photography by Ngoc Minh Ngo—known for Rizzoli books such as In Bloom and Eden Revisited—complements Salazar’s enthusiastic instruction.
Gabriela Salazar of La Musa de las Flores is a floral designer with a flower farm in the mountains of Mexico. She has clients in the fashion and design world including Yves Saint Laurent (YSL), Hermès, and Mont Blanc, and is also known for her floral design classes.
With a lifetime design award-winning garden, floral artist and self-taught photographer Lucy Hunter’s work is constantly looking at ways to create softness between the boundaries of indoor and outdoor. Thus, capturing for a moment the subtle and transitory shifts in nature, the light of the changing seasons, and always color, form, and composition. Lucy has a BA (Hons) in Fine Art and is the author of The Flower Hunter published by Ryland, Peters, and Small. When she is not traveling abroad to teach collaborative floral masterclasses or taking photos, Lucy retreats to her own, invariably intertwined garden and studio in the mountains in North Wales, United Kingdom. Here she designs, teaches, and constantly engages with the weeds in her garden.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Rizzoli Bookstore, 1133 Broadway, New York, United States
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