{"product_id":"simone-gooch-flowers-in-the-front-seat","title":"Flowers in the Front Seat \/ Simone Gooch","description":"\u003cdiv itemprop=\"description\" class=\"product-detail-description-text\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eシドニーでキャリアをスタートさせ、現在はロンドンを拠点に「Fjura」の名で活動するフローリスト、シモーネ・グーチ（Simone Gooch）の作品集。エルメスやシャネルといったメゾンとの協働をはじめ、その彫刻的で洗練されたフラワーアレンジメントで知られる作者ですが、本書『Flowers in the Front Seat』が焦点を当てるのは、完成された華やかな舞台の裏側——配達というフローリストの日常的な労働風景です。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eメルボルンの出版社「Perimeter Editions」から刊行された本作は、ニュージーランドの写真家デレク・ヘンダーソン（Derek Henderson）との共作『Rosa』（2021年）に続く2冊目の作品集です。本作では、配送用バンの無機質な車内の助手席に座らされた花々が記録されています。大切にシートベルトを締められたり、カップホルダーに収まったりするモクレンやクチナシ、アジサイ。iPhoneによる何気ないスナップ写真の連続は、日常ゆえの不完全さと、洗練された花の美しさとの間に心地よいコントラストを生み出しています。作者の職業な日々の実践におけるカジュアルなアーカイブであると同時に、フローリストにとって忘れられがちでありながら不可欠な「労働」そのものを讃えた一冊です。\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKnown professionally as Fjura – the Maltese word for ‘flower’ – Simone Gooch has always maintained a delightful tension between imperfection and splendour. Beginning her floristry practice in 2005 in Sydney, before establishing herself in London for several years, Gooch’s work ranges from hand-delivered gift flowers to large installations for major clients in fashion and design. Her second publication with Perimeter Editions – following the much loved collaboration with photographer Derek Henderson, Rosa, published in 2021 – Flowers in the Front Seat restages the beauty of Gooch’s arrangements against a backdrop that is firmly in the everyday.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntricate and spontaneous in equal measure, these flowers appear lovingly buckled in, precariously propped up in cup holders, or occasionally, held steady by anonymous hands. Magnolias, gardenias, hydrangeas, and violas – all snapped colloquially on an iPhone – fill the grey, utilitarian interior of the delivery van, an occasional passerby punctuating the otherwise private images. Spanning more than ten years of work, this book elicits the informality of the camera roll, as different takes on the same image appear alongside each other; a new angle tried, better lighting captured. The image itself becomes an arrangement, tweaked and revisited, but never entirely perfected.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFlowers in the Front Seat acts as both a casual archive of Simone Gooch’s professional practice and an ode to the forgotten – but required – labour of florists. They are the couriers of precious cargo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cbr\u003ePages: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e144\u003cbr\u003eSize: 150 x 205 mm\u003cbr\u003eSoftcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eColor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by Perimeter Editions, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Perimeter Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53231096725801,"sku":null,"price":7700.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0716\/7790\/3145\/files\/SimoneGooch_FlowersintheFrontSeat.jpg?v=1780894113","url":"https:\/\/aohatabooks.com\/products\/simone-gooch-flowers-in-the-front-seat","provider":"本屋青旗 Ao-Hata Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}