Publisher's Synopsis
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:
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
