“This book calls upon us to look, to appreciate, and whenever possible, to collect a bit of the outdoors to bring inside. Of course, flowers are for every day, to be picked up after work with the bread and milk – and with the proliferation of farmer’s markets everywhere that is now easy for us to do. Why do we too often save flowers for special occasions like a party or a thank you? While the photographs here are rich, what they show is everyday life; real rooms with real flowers, not interior-decorated homes with professional-looking displays. The quotidian nature of these images, and the moments they evoke, reveal that somehow the everyday is more special than any special occasion.”

Deborah Needleman

By Ngoc Minh Ngo
Arrangements by Nicolette Owen
Foreword by Deborah Needleman