London Interiors - Taschen jumbo series
by Jane Edwards, Angelika Taschen
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Synopsis
In case you're actually taking time to read this description (and not already rushing to the bookshop), we'll fill you in on why this new Interiors installment is simply a must-have. London is the capital of cool, full of famous artists, photographers, musicians, writers, decorators, designers, architects, and film-makers- and here is a chance to sneak into their homes! These aren't your typical rich-and-famous interiors, they're the apartments, lofts, houses (and even one houseboat) that truly represent London's wonderful eccentricity.
Predictable? Typical? Not exactly. The book's 300 pages of rich color photographs will send your senses reeling. From Noel Gallagher and Meg Matthews' rock-and-roll townhouse to DJ Talvin Singh's colorful Indian-inspired hideaway to painter Chris Ofili's multilevel East End home/studio, you'll find an eye-popping mix of styles. Expect to be surprised, delighted, and inspired by this wild array of interiors. Got it? Now get it!
Book details
Published
29/09/2000
Publisher
Taschen GmbH
ISBN
9783822862186
Publisher and industry reviews
UK Kirkus review
Most of the 42 interiors selected for this luscious book belong to designers, artists, architects and lifestyle entrepreneurs. There are no antiques apart from the occasional striking piece, hardly any curtains, and precious few bookcases. An individual eclecticism is everywhere apparent, though one common feature is the presence of Eames, Jacobsen and Saarinen chairs, superb enduring legacies of mid-20th century design. Interspersed with the dazzling colour spreads of the interiors is London itself, from the endpapers of a pod of the Millennium London Eye poised over the city view, to the 18 black and white wide-angle photos of London streets and buildings (all Julian Anderson's masterly work). Often the homes are contextualized by a small exterior view on the lilac or gold page introducing the owners. The entire text in this book, the tenth in the Taschen Interiors series, is in English, French and German, ideal for European sales and beyond, but possibly leaving description a little too compressed for those hungry for even more design details. The settings are as varied as London itself, from an 18th century Hamsptead home to a disused printing workshop in Shoreditch, from a cramped flat in trendy Notting Hill Gate to a houseboat moored at kew. Fantasies and dreams are expressed in richly textured bedroom areas, with exotic art blow-ups and camelhair or leopardskin coverlets, and also in the shaping of the living spaces to the sensuous needs of some for embroidered textiles, ywoven baskets and wallhangings, or the deep desire of others to live in uncluttered cool spaces. The architect John Pawson, master of minimalism, has created an austere calm in stone, wood and space (no pictures, no ornaments); Ozwals Boateng, designer of distinctive menswear, loves the vibrant warmth of fuschia, orange and crimson, sparse furnishing, and rainbow circles on the walls. What a pleasure to enter all the intimate spaces, filled with bold designer ideas. Visually delightful! (Kirkus UK)
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