Speaking to Richard Christiansen is like balm for the soul. He says everything you are thinking and feeling about the world, the speed of technology, the need for nature and to slow down, but eloquently, softly and brilliantly.
Richard Christiansen with buckets of Protea in the Goat Shed; a view of his Flamingo Estate from above. | Photographed
by Sean Hazen, 2025; Flamingo Estates
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Flamingo Estate, the luxury brand of covetable food and beauty products, has a new lifestyle proposition. In his latest book, founder Richard Christiansen is celebrating the restorative powers of dirt, flowers and doing things the slow way
