In House + Flower, Cynthia Zamaria immerses the reader in her creative process sharing how she infuses gardens, flowers and other elements of nature into sensitive home design.
Through engaging photography and a welcoming narrative, this book inspires us to celebrate living environments as expressions of our personal style while also embracing a home's unique soul. With a passion for character-filled spaces, carefree floral displays, and an appreciation for vintage and artisanal objects, Cynthia's approach is timely, yet timeless.
Readers are invited to see the potential in their own homes through the reimagined interiors and exteriors of the many Toronto-area residences she and her husband, Graham, have restored over the years.
'Here are houses found, embraced, personified and embodied by the spirit of the author. Cynthia gives the same generous passion to her homes as she does to her readers.' - Deborah Needleman, Author of The Perfectly Imperfect Home and co-author of the Domino Book of Decorating
A popular home and garden creative, Cynthia Zamaria is known for her accessible approach to character-filled spaces and carefree flower displays. Recently recognized as a Country Home Magazine Style Maker, Zamaria's work is regularly featured in leading international lifestyle and shelter media, including HGTV, Domino, Apartment Therapy, Country Living, Homes & Gardens, House & House, and Style at Home. With an infectious, optimistic spirit and a belief that we all need more beautiful in our lives, she shares inspiration as a writer, photographer, stylist and presenter. A popular home and garden creative, Cynthia Zamaria is known for her accessible approach to character-filled spaces and carefree flower displays. Recently recognized as a Country Home Magazine Style Maker, Zamaria's work is regularly featured in leading international lifestyle and shelter media, including HGTV, Domino, Apartment Therapy, Country Living, Homes & Gardens, House & House, and Style at Home. With an infectious, optimistic spirit and a belief that we all need more beautiful in our lives, she shares inspiration as a writer, photographer, stylist and presenter. Over her 25 year career Janet Kimber has won numerous advertising awards, three Juno Award nominations and is regularly published in national and international magazines. She shoots interiors and architecture for some of Canada's top designers, decor magazines and museums. She has also created timeless portraits of many notable Canadians, international creatives and leaders such as Abbas Kiarostami and the Aga Khan IV. Robin Stubbert is an Ontario-based interiors and lifestyle photographer. Stubbert began her career taking pictures of caterpillars as a young child and has been honing her craft since then. Working as a professional photographer for more than a quarter of a century, Stubbert is known for her signature light-filled style which beautifully and emotively captures our lives indoors and out. A consummate professional with an exacting eye for detail, Stubbert is a favourite contributor to interiors and lifestyle magazines and her work has been featured in leading media around the world.
Title: House + Flower: Reviving Forgotten Homes and Gardens
Author: Zamaria, Cynthia
ISBN: 9781736848159
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Publisher: BLOOM Imprint LLC
Publication Date: 2022-08-04
Number of Pages: 160
Weight: 0.5101 kg
Here are houses found, embraced, personified and embodied by the spirit of the author. Cynthia gives the same generous passion to her homes as she does to her readers.
-- DEBORAH NEEDLEMAN, Author of The Perfectly Imperfect Home and co-author of the Domino Book of Decorating
A gem of a book, House + Flower is as multifaceted as Cynthia's approach to design. Her talent for creating beautiful vignettes is born from a deep knowledge of her materials. Working with old houses, gardens, and vintage and contemporary objects, she creates spaces of simplicity, relevancy and style.
-- CHRISTIN GEALL, Author of Cultivated: The Elements of Floral Style
As a florist, I believe in beauty. As a psychologist, I know the importance of home. A place where we feel belonging and joy, where we know peace and inspiration, that is the essence of home. This beautiful and truly practical guide is the distillation of Cynthia's experiences of creating the most exquisite homes, and a wonderful manual for designing your own spaces with soul.
-- DR. GRACE ALEXANDER, Founder of Gather with Grace Alexander
House + Flower is a beautifully crafted window into the soulful persona created when making a place we call home. Cynthia artfully describes how she breathes life into spaces and their gardens. She honors their histories with creativity and purpose, and delights in the details and intricacies that make a home a perfectly imperfect memoir of those who live within its walls.
-- CHRISTINE DOVEY, Stylist, designer, hotelier
You can visit someone's house and appreciate how it looks, but it's not until you learn the stories of how it all came to be that you really understand how the house became a home. With House + Flower, Cynthia shares the stories of the homes she's owned over the years, and how practical decisions were balanced with passion. Reading it made me reflect on my own space, feeling more confident about certain design decisions and encouraged to rethink others. She also includes an extremely useful guide to renovations - I'm fully adopting her sticky note method for project planning.
-- MARYAM SIDDIQI, Lifestyle editor and journalist
