Gardens of Style

The photography alone is worth the price—those shots of Dior’s garden-inspired collections made me see my own flowerbeds differently. It’s a lovely coffee-table book that actually has substance on the design side, not just pretty pages.

I picked this up expecting pretty garden pictures and got a proper design education instead. The chapters tracing how Dior and Roehm pulled color palettes straight from flower beds are what I keep going back to. It's the kind of book that makes you rethink your own backyard.

The photos of Dior's garden-inspired couture alone are worth the price, and I didn't expect the text to be this readable either. It's sitting on my coffee table now and every guest picks it up.