Aerin Lauder: Living with Flowers

Great gift idea!

The large format book is nicely produced, with a quality cover and binding, as you would expect from Rizzoli. The pages are glossy, ensuring very high quality printing of all the photos. Some of the pages are printed, brief essays that I have yet to read. What disappoints are the photos of floral arrangements which are often simple (like two or three blooms in a narrow vase). The photos in the Amazon listing promise you so much more in florals. However the book is really a catalog of ornate rooms, with a good many photos of the author (fine for her fans but to me, seems like a level of vanity). So turning the pages, skimpy floral, skimpy floral, shot of the author, a shot of floral wallpaper, a shot of floral fabric, another photo of the author, a place setting with a small floral in a vase, yet another photo of the author…high quality book but too expensive to be a disappointment. That is my opinion, you may find the book more appealing with its focus on decorating and on the author.

disappointing at best.....a vanity project......