The Guide to Becoming Alive: Luxurious Rituals to Ignite Your Senses and Rejuvenate Your Soul
£40.00
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The ethos behind the Flamingo Estate is that life is to be lived, not just endured. By getting back to the natural world, we can find joy in returning to our authentic selves, through opening our senses and taking time for the simple pleasures. In this beautifully illustrated book, which is part memoir, part manifesto, Flamingo Estate’s founder, Richard Christiansen, invites you inside his renowned home to meet his friends and heroes. Presenting fifteen pleasure principles inspired by nature's wisdom, this visually rich guide shows us how to fill each day with radical pleasure, including insights into wellness, food, activism, design, nature, work, love, and conversations with luminaries such as Jane Goodall, Jane Fonda and Martha Stewart.
Dimensions
30cm (11in) x 22cm (9in)
Features
notes
The ethos behind the Flamingo Estate is that life is to be lived, not just endured. By getting back to the natural world, we can find joy in returning to our authentic selves, through opening our senses and taking time for the simple pleasures. In this beautifully illustrated book, which is part memoir, part manifesto, Flamingo Estate’s founder, Richard Christiansen, invites you inside his renowned home to meet his friends and heroes. Presenting fifteen pleasure principles inspired by nature's wisdom, this visually rich guide shows us how to fill each day with radical pleasure, including insights into wellness, food, activism, design, nature, work, love, and conversations with luminaries such as Jane Goodall, Jane Fonda and Martha Stewart.
Insights
Perched high above Los Angeles and nestled within a lush orchard and verdant gardens sits Flamingo Estate, a pleasure-filled enclave of nature worship, folk mythologies, and powerful healing remedies. Richard Christiansen is a respected leader in food and wellness. His global brand, Flamingo Estate, has been covered by a wide range of outlets, including the New York Times, Architectural Digest, Food + Wine, Vogue, Oprah, goop, Forbes, and many others. He cultivates more than 150 varieties of flowers, fruits, and vegetables at the estate and produces a range of luxury apothecary products, including candles, lotions, soaps, honey, and more—all celebrated for their quality and traceability.
Details & Care
- Publisher: Chronicle Books
- Hard cover
- Colour photography
- Number of pages: 487 pages
- ISBN: 9781797229171
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