Liza Langen - The Practice Of Arranging Flowers & How To Embrace Seasonal Change

The Practice of Arranging Flowers & How To Embrace Seasonal Change is a crafted coffee table book centered around flowers and the changing seasons. Through exploring the cultural and historical significance of flowers, this book is an ode to the undeniable presence of flowers in our everyday lives and a practical guide to arranging. Each arrangement in this book encourages you to create consciously and pay closer attention to everyday life's small but spectacular details.

Organised by four seasonal chapters, 65 arrangements with detailed recipes, 24 unique flower stories, and over 100 flower varieties throughout, the book is both educational and inspiring. With vignette-style essays, personal tips, and raw analog imagery, page by page, you'll find yourself leaning into your everyday creativity, mindfulness, and self-reflection of the world around you.

Flowers have unique stories to tell. Bearing a symbolic and historical significance in the age-old tales of life, flowers remain deeply connected to the complex emotions throughout our human experiences.

From our earliest history, they've existed as a sacred symbol connecting humanity with divinity. Whether they represented a symbol of peace, love, devotion, celebration, or sympathy, or whether considered a spiritual or social offering, flowers have been considered a thoughtful gesture of human connection within global cultures. As art evolved within global culture, painting, poetry, ceramics, and other forms, flowers and their symbolism became the foundation for artistic inspiration and storytelling, paving the way for the art we now know as floristry.

"Though Liza Langen Flowers became an official business years after I moved to Sweden, my grandparents, avid gardeners, were the ones who planted the first seed in my growing passion for floristry. Throughout my life, I valued the symbolism of flowers, and upon moving abroad, I realized how strongly they made me feel connected to myself and my family. Sweden was the place that taught me to embrace seasonal change more profoundly, and floristry gave me the tools to stay inspired in the dark months and present on long summer days.

Creating this book has been my reflective response to the experience of acclimating to life in a new country, telling the story of Liza Langen Flowers, and sharing my passion for floristry.

From the early brainstorming sessions to picking up the first hard copy in a small bindery two hours west of Stockholm— it's hard to express the sheer joy in knowing that all 238 pages of this book were carefully crafted with such intention, collaboration and sheer passion by everyone involved in the process. This book has been a process of self-exploration and appreciation for an art practice that has helped to frame my worldview into one of continual hope, positivity, and new life. And now, I’m so grateful to share it with you."  - Liza Langen

Written and published by Liza Langen
Stockholm, 2024
238 pages
L27cm W21cm H3cm, 0.9kg

Winner of The Gold Egg (Guldägget) Award in the Graphic Design category in 2025

Editor Charlotte Manning
Floristry Liza Langen and Polina Chentsova
Photography Melanie Rodriguez and Paul Hyde
Graphic design Peter Danroth, Bryner Creative
Printed by BYWIND
Made in Sweden
ISBN 978-91-527-8642-0

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