Wilder

25/10/2025

21/10/2025

‘Creative Ikebana’ (1969) must be one of our favourite flower arranging books so far. Noriko Ohno’s take on the craft feels refreshing to this day, focusing more on its expressive power than on rules and diagrams.

Ohno reinterprets the same materials in various ways, captures personalities and places in her floral language. Weirdly wonderful or minimally elegant, her pieces make the joy of creation tangible.

After an explanation of the basics, the chapters zoom in on different occasions and sources that have inspired Ohno, and that may inspire you too to find your own new way with flowers. Look around you, use what you can find, and have fun experimenting.

This vintage book can be found along other titles in store and online at wilderwilder.be
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16/10/2025

What’s that great smell?

Step into the wonderful scented world of Basium. Driven by a passion for holistic wellness and botanical perfumery, Basium offers everyday aromatherapy that invites you to slow down and tune in with the moment. All products are plant-based and made in Europe. Most ingredients are organic or wildcrafted.

We now stock Sunrise and Sunset, two essential oil blends which will make the start and end of your day a little more special and intentional. They can be used with the beautiful stone diffuser designed by Maddalena Selvini, or any other one you might already have at home.

Now available online and in store. Pop in and have a sniff!
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14/10/2025

Sometimes a combo is just meant to be.

Handmade paper flower & vintage vase, now on our shelves.
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13/10/2025

We’ve just added an exciting new selection of vintage books to our webshop.

With some of our latest finds, we’d love to introduce you to the fascinating life and work of Japanese artist Sofu Teshigahara (1900-1979). Born to an ikebana teacher, Teshigahara broke with conventional rules and founded the innovative Sogetsu School of Ikebana. Producing numerous sculptures, paintings, calligraphy, and collage works, he also became a key figure in Japanese postwar avant-garde art.

Some of these books are pretty rare and valuable. We hope you’ll love them as much as we do.

Pictured in this post (by order of appearance) are:

‘Sculpture by Sofu Teshigahara 1957-1958’
‘Coloured Pictures of Representative Flower Arrangements by Sofu’
‘Ikebana: Sogetsu Flower Arrangement by Sofu Teshigahara’
‘Sofu: His Boundless World of Flowers and Form’

Find these and more new additions at www.wilderwilder.be or ask for them in store.
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07/10/2025

Wedding bouquet for L ♡ M with lovely physalis bells and our trusted zinnia, cosmos and starry dahlias.

Lovely wedding photo by .studio
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03/10/2025

This week’s shelves - new vintage finds, a new magazine, fragrant additions and autumnal bouquets.

Pop by Thursday till Saturday or shop at wilderwilder.be 24/7.
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29/09/2025

Entering our last month of fresh flowers.

As days are getting shorter, the range of varieties gets smaller, and yet there’s still new combinations to make. The first and last months of the season always feel a bit more special and intense.

Come get your bunch Thursday till Saturday or order a Friday delivery at wilderwilder.be
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27/09/2025

‘Ruth Asawa and the Artist-Mother at Midcentury’ relates how a group of artist-mothers in postwar San Francisco refused the centuries-old belief that a woman could not make art while also raising children.

This book focuses on sculptor Ruth Asawa and explores her dialogue with fellow artist-moms like Merry Renk, Imogen Cunningham, and Sally Woodbridge. It explores their work, life and vision, from the intimacy of their homes and ateliers to their activism in the public sphere, specifically in schools, and their relevance in the art world.

We’re grateful this book introduced us to many wonderful works, and we feel inspired by the journey of these remarkable women to juggle our multiple roles with curiosity and to let them fuel each other.

Come and browse this new title in store or find it online at wilderwilder.be
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22/09/2025

Table flowers, wedding bouquet, bridesmaids’ bouquets and buttonholes, late August for M ♡ S at Botanic Sanctuary.

All flowers locally and sustainably grown by .hortense and
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16/09/2025

This morning’s surprise bouquets and crates filled with comfort. Gladiolus, dahlia, cosmos, marigold and aster - we can’t miss them just yet.

Three ways to enjoy the season’s local harvest this week: get your bunch in store from Thursday till Saturday, order a Friday delivery or join our flower arranging workshop on Thursday evening. Links in bio!
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13/09/2025

The hand-knotted Ybriger brush has been sitting on our shelves for a while. Now it comes with a storybook of its own too. ‘Im Besengebiet / Field of Brooms’ is the result of what happens when you start a conversation with the simple objects that surround you everyday. We wish every object could have a book like this.

Industrial designer Flavia Brändle and jewellery designer and filmmaker Margrit Linder shared an admiration for the traditional Swiss hand brooms they had come across on several occasions. It initiated an exploration that took them along crafts(wo)men, experts and landscapes, first in Switzerland, then in Europe, and finally across the world.

This beautifully designed book looks at the hand broom from historical, cultural and ecological perspectives, and serves a multitude of documentary photographs, illustrations and beautiful samples that put the simple object in a well-deserved spotlight.

Whether you love sweeping or not, this book is a generous gift to anyone interested in craft and its place in society.

Find the brush and the book in store and online.
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