Sandra Sigman has designed French-inspired florals for hundreds of weddings and events at Les Fleurs, the French-style floral, home, and garden shop she opened in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1989. She became enchanted with flowers as a young girl while helping to create bouquets for her mother's home-based floral business. She later fell in love with France when she moved to Paris in the mid-1980s to skate professionally with Holiday on Ice.
It was in the City of Light that she learned her signature style of arranging flowers from her favorite Parisian florist shop near her apartment. Through annual workshops at Les Fleurs and in France, she now shares her love of France and all things floral with others. Due to her floral expertise and engaging personality, Sandra has been featured in myriad magazines, including Boston Magazine, Flower Magazine, New England Home, Northshore Magazine, and The Cottage Journal.
She has been featured on WCVB-TV Channel 5's Chronicle and has spoken at garden clubs across the country. For the past two years, she has exhibited annually at the prestigious Newport Flower Show in Rhode Island, where in 2018, she won first prize for Best New Vendor Home & Garden Marketplace. Sandra lives in Andover with her husband and their Cavachon and store mascot, Obie. The couple also has a pied-à-terre in Paris and a weekend home in Vermont.Victoria Abbott Riccardi is a journalist and book author who lived in Paris from 1982 to 1983 to study French cuisine at Le Cordon Bleu.
For nearly twenty-five years, she has written travel, food, gardening, home, and lifestyle articles for various consumer print and online media in the United States and abroad, including Bon Appétit, Condé Nast Traveller, Hemispheres, and The New York Times. In 2003 she wrote the travel memoir Untangling My Chopsticks : A Culinary Sojourn in Kyoto (Broadway), a New York Times 2003 Notable Book excerpted in Best Food Writing 2003 (Marlowe & Company).
She has contributed to five other culinary and travel books. As a result of her work, she has appeared on national television several times, including on the Food Network's Iron Chef America, where she was a judge for the first (2004–2005) and second (2005–2006) seasons, CBS's The Early Show, and MSNBC's Morning Blend. Sharon Santoni grew up in England, but married a Frenchman and has raised their family in Normandy, France.
She created the blog and brand My French Country Home and has written books on French living. Her websites and lifestyle magazine draw readers from around the world, many of whom subscribe to My French Country Home Box or purchase from her online boutique that carries all things French. She also welcomes an international clientele on her tours and shows them an authentic side of France that tourists rarely encounter.
About the photographers : Photographer Kindra Clineff's enthusiasm for chasing light and capturing life in her images led to working engagements with national and international advertising, editorial, and corporate clients. During her thirty-five-year career as a professional photographer, she regularly produced feature assignments for publications such as Better Homes and Gardens, Country Gardens, Country Home, The Cottage Journal, and Yankee.
Kindra partnered with writers, interior decorators, and culinary artists on numerous books, including The Garden in Every Sense and Season (Timber Press, 2018), Farmhouse Modern (Abrams/Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2013), and The New Terrarium (Clarkson Potter/Random House, 2009). She lived with her partner, Tim, in Topsfield, Massachusetts, until her untimely death in 2022. Anne Soulier is a French photographer, writer, and stylist.
She took up photography after her children were born in order to hold onto moments and freeze time. Her early work focused on the ephemeral. For the past ten years, she has worked for French and international clients on brands for which she serves as artistic director. While fostering a timeless aesthetic, she creates simple, soft images in natural light, because she firmly believes in the power of beauty.
She manages projects with one objective : to evoke emotion through imagery.
It was in the City of Light that she learned her signature style of arranging flowers from her favorite Parisian florist shop near her apartment. Through annual workshops at Les Fleurs and in France, she now shares her love of France and all things floral with others. Due to her floral expertise and engaging personality, Sandra has been featured in myriad magazines, including Boston Magazine, Flower Magazine, New England Home, Northshore Magazine, and The Cottage Journal.
She has been featured on WCVB-TV Channel 5's Chronicle and has spoken at garden clubs across the country. For the past two years, she has exhibited annually at the prestigious Newport Flower Show in Rhode Island, where in 2018, she won first prize for Best New Vendor Home & Garden Marketplace. Sandra lives in Andover with her husband and their Cavachon and store mascot, Obie. The couple also has a pied-à-terre in Paris and a weekend home in Vermont.Victoria Abbott Riccardi is a journalist and book author who lived in Paris from 1982 to 1983 to study French cuisine at Le Cordon Bleu.
For nearly twenty-five years, she has written travel, food, gardening, home, and lifestyle articles for various consumer print and online media in the United States and abroad, including Bon Appétit, Condé Nast Traveller, Hemispheres, and The New York Times. In 2003 she wrote the travel memoir Untangling My Chopsticks : A Culinary Sojourn in Kyoto (Broadway), a New York Times 2003 Notable Book excerpted in Best Food Writing 2003 (Marlowe & Company).
She has contributed to five other culinary and travel books. As a result of her work, she has appeared on national television several times, including on the Food Network's Iron Chef America, where she was a judge for the first (2004–2005) and second (2005–2006) seasons, CBS's The Early Show, and MSNBC's Morning Blend. Sharon Santoni grew up in England, but married a Frenchman and has raised their family in Normandy, France.
She created the blog and brand My French Country Home and has written books on French living. Her websites and lifestyle magazine draw readers from around the world, many of whom subscribe to My French Country Home Box or purchase from her online boutique that carries all things French. She also welcomes an international clientele on her tours and shows them an authentic side of France that tourists rarely encounter.
About the photographers : Photographer Kindra Clineff's enthusiasm for chasing light and capturing life in her images led to working engagements with national and international advertising, editorial, and corporate clients. During her thirty-five-year career as a professional photographer, she regularly produced feature assignments for publications such as Better Homes and Gardens, Country Gardens, Country Home, The Cottage Journal, and Yankee.
Kindra partnered with writers, interior decorators, and culinary artists on numerous books, including The Garden in Every Sense and Season (Timber Press, 2018), Farmhouse Modern (Abrams/Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2013), and The New Terrarium (Clarkson Potter/Random House, 2009). She lived with her partner, Tim, in Topsfield, Massachusetts, until her untimely death in 2022. Anne Soulier is a French photographer, writer, and stylist.
She took up photography after her children were born in order to hold onto moments and freeze time. Her early work focused on the ephemeral. For the past ten years, she has worked for French and international clients on brands for which she serves as artistic director. While fostering a timeless aesthetic, she creates simple, soft images in natural light, because she firmly believes in the power of beauty.
She manages projects with one objective : to evoke emotion through imagery.