A house of Provenance
The Florilegium
The great flower books, as their makers meant them to be seen — every petal, vein, and leaf, engraved from life. Museum-grade for your wall.
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skip the walk → enter the gallery“Every flower ever loved was drawn by someone who could not bear to watch it fade.”
I · STATION · THE ROSE GARDEN
The Rose
Redouté’s roses, drawn bloom by bloom from the Empress Joséphine’s garden at Malmaison — the most beloved flower plates ever engraved.
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II · STATION · THE HOTHOUSE
The Grand Flower
Lilies, amaryllis, and the tropics at overwhelming scale — the flowers of the hothouse, rendered as architecture.
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III · STATION · THE ORCHID HOUSE
The Orchid
Bateman’s Mexico and Guatemala and Lindley’s Register — the flowers that arrived in crates from the tropics and sent a century of collectors mad.
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IV · STATION · THE ROMANTIC STAGE
The Temple of Flora
Thornton’s flowers against their Romantic skies — botany staged as theatre, and the most dramatic flower book ever printed.
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V · STATION · THE GREAT GARDEN
The Florilegium
The great garden books — Besler’s Eichstätt, the Dutch golden-age flower books, whole gardens preserved on paper.
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VI · STATION · THE KITCHEN GARDEN
The Herbal & the Kitchen Garden
The useful garden — the medicinal plants, the fruits, and the insects that live upon them. Beauty that was meant to work.
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VII · STATION · THE YEAR
The Twelve Months
Furber’s twelve bouquets, one for every month of the year — and the birth flower of everyone you know.
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Which flower belongs to the month you were born?
Furber drew a bouquet for every month of the year — yours is in there, waiting to be found.
$29.00
Printed to order on archival cotton-rag stock from a public-domain plate — the same plate you can zoom into on its own page.
“A garden keeps its flowers for a season. These books have kept theirs for four hundred years — and will keep yours, on the wall.”
