- SKU: 9781797229171
- BARCODE: 9781797229171
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Flamingo Estate: The Guide to Becoming Alive - Hardcover
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Description
by Richard Christiansen (Author)
From inside the walls of Flamingo Estate--an abundant, visually rich guide to filling each day with radical pleasure, including wisdom on wellness, food, activism, design, nature, work, love, and more.
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. At Flamingo, Mother Earth is the ultimate luxury and pleasure is a human right. Flamingo Estate's founder, Richard Christiansen, invites you inside his home and to meet his friends and heroes. Presenting fifteen pleasure principles inspired by nature's wisdom, Christiansen reveals how a deep relationship with nature offers a life of pleasure and joy. Discover how to flirt like an orchid, embrace winters like a plum tree, work like wisteria, and court your shadow like the fern. Combining hundreds of images and luxurious rituals for well-being with stories from Christiansen's own journey of awakening, Flamingo Estate: The Guide to Becoming Alive is a rousing call to reject a life of tedium and luxuriate in the radical pleasures of the natural world. Featuring conversations with luminaries from food, activism, wellness, and the arts, including:- Jane Fonda
- Martha Stewart
- John Legend
- Chrissy Teigen
- Jane Goodall
- Alice Waters
- Kelly Wearstler
- David de Rothschild
- Elise Loehnen
- Erica Chidi
- Ellen DeGeneres
- Terry Tempest Williams
- + More
- Fans of Flamingo Estate
- Food and wellness enthusiasts
- Anyone experiencing burnout or seeking stress relief
- Décor enthusiasts and readers of Architectural Digest and Oprah
- Fans of Kelly Wearstler and Martha Stewart
- People interested in slow living and sustainability
- Flower lovers and gardeners
- Mother's Day gift shoppers
- Readers of Michael Pollan, Peter Attia, Arthur C. Brooks, and Natalie Walton
Author Biography
Richard Christiansen is a beloved and respected leader in food and wellness. His world-renowned brand Flamingo Estate has been covered by a wide range of outlets, including the New York Times, Architectural Digest, Food + Wine, Vogue, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, goop, Forbes, and many others. He cultivates an immense variety of plants, flowers, fruits, and vegetables at Flamingo Estate and works with a collection of over 120 farms to produce a range of luxury apothecary products, including candles, lotions, soaps, honey, and more--all celebrated for their quality and sustainability.
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