青幻舎 SEIGENSHA Art Publishing

The act of shaping scenes by drawing on flowers, grasses, and orchard trees that have shared one’s day-to-day life—by linking the beauty of nature with everyday living—lets one appreciate nature’s bounty and gain a sense of the rich daily flow of time. This book quietly communicates the joys of those gifts.

——Akira Minagawa, designer

Roughly sixty kilometers southwest of Paris lies the village of La Chéraille. Here, Keiko Nishida—a farmer’s florist, or a floral designer who sources her materials direct locally—lives on a large flower farm, using its flowers to create arrangements in a signature French natural style. She also shares her life in the French countryside via conventional and social media to eager audiences in Japan, where more and more people have gained an interest in living with flowers since the Covid-19 pandemic.

This page-a-day book presents one photo with accompanying text for every day of the year, chronicling the author’s lifestyle and ideas for using flowers à la France, where flowers are a natural part of everyday life. Flip through the pages, and let peace wash over you as you behold the seasons unfold over the 365 days of the year; the beautiful design of the book makes it a wonderful gift as well.

Farmer-florist Keiko Nishida was born in Osaka. In 1991 she moved to France, where she worked at a florist in Paris before settling down on a flower farm in the nearby village of La Chéraille in 2007. Today she designs wedding and other arrangements and teaches classes using flowers from the farm’s extensive grounds.

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