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Flamingo Estate: The Guide to Becoming Alive

by Richard Christiansen

Nature, pleasure, and daily rituals

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Nature, pleasure, and daily rituals

Richard Christiansen frames Flamingo Estate as a meeting point of nature, wellness, food, design, activism, and everyday life. The book is organized around fifteen “pleasure principles” inspired by the natural world, pairing rituals and images with stories from Christiansen’s own journey and conversations with figures from fields including food, activism, wellness, and the arts. Its guiding idea is that a closer relationship with nature can shape how people approach work, rest, love, and pleasure. The result is a richly illustrated, wide-ranging invitation to consider well-being through the rhythms and examples of the natural world.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Fans of Flamingo Estate and its nature-centered approach to food and wellness
  • Readers interested in rituals, design, activism, and reflections on daily life
  • Those exploring nature-inspired approaches to well-being

Themes

Nature and well-beingPleasure and daily ritualsFood, design, and activismWork, love, and personal reflection

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Book overview

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:
  • 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
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