What) Taschen produces an amazing (to me) collection of coffee table books on Art, Architecture, Fashion, Design and Photography. Basically if it looks good then they have done or are probably doing a book on it.
Where) 1111 Lincoln Road Mon - Sat: 11am – 9pm Sunday: 12 noon to 9pm 1-305-538-6185
Why) I am on the Taschen e-mail list and I have purchased a
number of
their books. In fact, I ordered one for Pam for
her birthday. Although we never
made it to
the store, you get to see a few pages from her birthday
present. 
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Edvard Koinberg: Herbarium Amoris. Floral Romance
Edvard Koinberg, Tore Frängsmyr, Henning Mankell
Hardcover, 23.6 x 31 cm (9.3 x 12.2 in.), 280 pages
The notion of plant sexuality was initiated by Swedish botanist and physician Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778). Working with his collection of over 20,000 specimens, Linnaeus grouped flowers and plants in a Calendarium Florae, and systematically classified plant species by the number and arrangement of their reproductive parts, drawing direct parallels with human sexual organs. Highly controversial at the time, the assertion that a plant's stamens and pistils mirror human genitalia resulted in a 'sexual revolution' in plant taxonomy.
Swedish photographer Edvard Koinberg creates a modern visual counterpart to Linnaeus's work, approaching the subject with equal passion and dedication. Having cultivated several hundred plants in his country house, Koinberg photographs each delicate bloom in his studio under perfect lighting conditions, depicting the life cycle of various flora as they bud, flourish and wane, resulting in a modern Calendarium Florae, a visual calendar that charts the year through flowers.
In Herbarium Amoris, Koinberg captures the lyricism and refulgent eroticism of the floral world in vivid close-ups, shot against dark backgrounds, the dew glittering on outspread petals, the most delicate of vegetal forms infused with unbridled life force. (3)
