Some things resist being explained. Flowers are one of them and that is exactly why they deserve a book.
K A T Y A Ö S T B E R G
ONE BOOK. ONE OBSESSION.
Flower: Exploring the World in Bloom
Across cultures and centuries, flowers have been offerings, symbols, and obsessions. This book gathers them their stories, their images, their contradictions into one place. 320 pages. Thousands of years of meaning.
I have always been drawn to things that are beautiful without trying to be.
Katya Östberg is a writer and visual editor whose work lives at the intersection of nature, culture, and careful looking. Flower is her first book — and it began, like most good things, with a single stem in a glass on a windowsill.