{"product_id":"coffee-table-book-of-orchids-hardcover","title":"Coffee Table Book of: Orchids (Hardcover)","description":"\u003cp\u003eCoffee Table Book of: Orchids is a large format book of orchids brought out of the dark, one light at a time, printed edge to edge in colour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIts large plates work through the most varied flower there is: a moth orchid's white face emerging from black, a slipper orchid's pouch catching a single shaft of light, a Dracula's two eye-like markings and three long tails, a spider orchid trailing to points. Between the portraits come the parts an orchid is actually built from: the column with its pollinia still capped, the twisted ovary that turns the flower upside down as it opens, aerial roots hanging in silver.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShort notes run beside the plates on what the eye is looking at: why the lip is a landing platform, why a peloric flower grows two extra lips instead of petals, why a seed pod holds dust rather than seeds. Enough to reward a second pass, never enough to interrupt the picture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMade as an object first: a large, quiet, full-colour volume for a table, a shelf or a gift, and for anyone who grows orchids, loses one now and then, and buys another.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrinted in full colour on heavy 150gsm coated paper at 216 x 279 mm (8.5 x 11 inches), as a hardcover with the art printed on the case.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cedar Pine Editions","offers":[{"title":"Case Bound - PPC","offer_id":68137843294512,"sku":"9671456001999","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0262\/2357\/5085\/files\/9671456001999.jpg?v=1792523947","url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/coffee-table-book-of-orchids-hardcover","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}