In her new book, Charlotte Moss Flowers, decorator Charlotte Moss celebrates all things floral in her charming home in the Hamptons. The award-winning designer invites you to see the beauty in nature and the endless possibilities it can provide for decorating, entertaining and beyond. In her book, she encourages readers to bring the outdoors in with various flower arrangement ideas and designs. See a sneak peek of her recently published book, Charlotte Moss Flowers, below.
This collection of gouaches, says Charlotte Moss, is by the late Rogers Turner, who “painted masterful still lifes of flowers, vegetables, and fruit.”
Life imitates art: A porcelain hollyhock by Vladimir Kanevsky reflects the subject of the painting hanging behind it.
A decorated creamware pitcher holds an armful of fragrant stock.
Sunflowers cut short in a French ceramic vase look right at home alongside English landscapes, an English hall chair, and an American faux bamboo dresser.
Garden-themed drawings by Van Day Truex hang on hand-stenciled walls in Moss’s entryway, alongside sculptural antique French watering cans and a stack of straw hats for guests.
When Moss’s roses are in bloom, they find a home in every room of the house. “Somehow Delft screams for sunflowers in August,” the decorator says.
A mixed arrangement from Moss’s garden mirrors a guest room’s palette.
Trugs and baskets line a wall in Moss’s flower room.
“Fresh peonies are an impossibility in the winter,” says Moss, “but this porcelain blossom by Vladimir Kanevsky reminds me of fragrant times to come.”
“I adore the smell of tomato leaves,” the decorator says. “They spell summer . . . and country.”
A tole poppy punctuates a blue-and-white still life and an unfinished French watercolor.
A small vase of nasturtium leaves complements a Wayne Pate painting hanging above it.
A French basket corrals a summertime cache from a roadside stand.
A Venetian swirl bud vase explodes with pale roses, lady’s mantle, and other garden greens.
Ceramic hollyhocks by Clare Potter, commissioned for the Rogers Memorial Library Designers’ Showhouse in the late 1980s, are the first thing Moss sees each morning.
