Flamingo Estate: The Guide to Becoming Alive
Luxurious Rituals to Ignite Your Senses and Rejuvenate Your Soul
by Richard Christiansen
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Pub Date Nov 19 2024 | Archive Date Dec 02 2024
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Description
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
CELEBRATED AUTHOR AND BRAND: Richard Christiansen is a beloved and respected leader in food, wellness, and business. His global brand, Flamingo Estate, has been covered by a wide range of outlets, including the New York Times, Architectural Digest, Food + Wine, Vogue, Oprah, goop, Forbes, and many others. Flamingo Estate has grown from his own home to a family of over 125 farms and collaborators, producing over 150 products, including candles, beauty products, kitchen essentials, fresh vegetables, and much more—all celebrated for their quality and traceability.
Perfect for:
- 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
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781797229171 |
| PRICE | $50.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 528 |
Available on NetGalley
Featured Reviews
Jonathan N, Reviewer
I like how Flamingo Estate gives a new environment for us to becoming more alive in our life, with special conversations with luminaries from food, activism, wellness, and the arts. This is really good to read.
Lauren C, Reviewer
I'm not sure how to rate this book. Full disclosure, I had never heard of Flamingo Estate before I read this. I googled it after I finished reading. $50 bottles of olive oil, $98 for a jar of honey, a $60 tomato scented candle. This is a high end lifestyle brand out of LA. I'm definitely not the target audience for this magnum opus of a book. At 530 pages its a comprehensive look at the origins, history, and ethos of the brand including interviews with authors, celebrities, thought leaders, and Jane Goodall! I did appreciate the obvious dedication to natural, pleasurable, sustainable living. The before and after photos of the estate were really neat to see. I'm sure anyone familiar with this brand will enjoy hearing the author's point of view. 3 stars for me personally but rounded up to 4 for the breadth, depth, and sincerity of the work.
Reviewer 1087751
I loved and took away so many things from FLAMINGO ESTATE: THE GUIDE TO BECOMING ALIVE. There is so much beauty and wisdom in this book, that there were several moments I had to pause after while reading in order to fully take in the beauty I just read. And often, there were emotional. As a lover of gardening, I still learned things and enjoyed everything this book has to offer... especially the photos and the messages from nature such as how nature wishes to be different... it's just is as it is. A book for avid and pro gardeners and even for people who aren't! It felt sensual and like a luxury reading this book. It's such an experience that you feel alive while reading it! I greatly enjoyed the conversations and the inspiring people he has them with. I can't wait to get a hard copy... the perfect coffee table book!
Much gratitude to Chronicle Books and NetGalley for the arc in exchange for my honest review.
joyce l, Reviewer
Before picking up this title, I had never heard of Flamingo Estate. Now I wish that I could visit in person as well as through the pages of this book.
There is an ethos to this estate that has offered wisdom to the many who have spent time there. Just a few of the conversations that are included here are with Alice Waters, Martha Stewart, Jane Fonda, and Chrissy Teigen & John Legend.
Flamingo Estate is a generous read at over 500 pages. Dip in and out and enjoy. Given our world, this book's belief in pleasure, the earth, observation and caring for ourselves resonates.
Just a few things that are offered her include learning to grow a tomato, how to quite your job, how to benefit from Mother Nature. Spend time in these pages, both reading and looking at the gorgeous photos. Feel better!
Many thanks to NetGalley and Chronicle Books for this title. All opinions are my own.
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