Flamingo Estate: The Guide to Becoming Alive

A luxurious, visually rich guide to filling each day with radical pleasure, with illuminating wisdom on wellness, food, décor, nature, and more, from world-famous lifestyle brand Flamingo Estate. 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.   In this enchanting guide, Flamingo Estate’s visionary founder Richard Christiansen invites you to immerse yourself in the alluring magic of the estate. Presenting fifteen pleasure principles inspired by nature's wisdom, Christiansen reveals how a deep relationship with earthly delights offers a life of transcendent pleasure and beauty. 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 sumptuous images and luxurious rituals for wellbeing with stories from Christiansen’s own journey of awakening, 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 contributions from luminaries in food, activism, wellness, and the arts, including: Jane Fonda John Legend Chrissy Teigen Jane Goodall Alice Waters Martha Stewart David de Rothschild Elise Loehnen Erica Chidi Ellen Degeneres Terry Tempest Williams Dr. Nigma Talib + More

Richard Christiansen is the founder of Flamingo Estate — a home and garden brand that makes luxury wellness products and champions botanical wellness through engaging with Mother Nature. Prior to founding Flamingo Estate, Richard Christiansen ran his own creative agency, Chandelier Creative, for 20 years where he worked with some the world's most iconic fashion and commercial retail brands. He has appeared on Ellen, Vogue, the New York Times, and more.