by Editorial Desk | Books
Here’s our edit of five top books out this month. As Demeter – goddess of harvests and fertility – is happily reunited with her daughter Persephone, death is banished and all is life and joy again. So goes the ancients’ colourful explanation of...
by Barbara Penner | Books, Features
A Story of Both Grand and Mean Feats Enter the smallest room of the house and you are in a private space where there is no provision for anyone other than you. It may be the only room in the house where you will ever be truly alone. Yet reach for the flush and you...
by Editorial Desk | Books
Our edit of five of the best books out this month is dominated by the art of collecting. Collections of stuff we are intrigued or obsessed by, that we amass and which defines and gives character to our homes. These include ‘Marble Mania’ – the long...
by Raci | Books, Features
Marble Mania Antiques and Collectables for the Latter Day Roman Empire If whilst wandering around the statue lined halls of many an English country house, you may have developed the impression that they were built around their priceless antiques and collectables, then...
by Raci | Books, Interiors
The Drawing Room – what’s yours called? But is it a ‘drawing room’, ‘living room’, ‘sitting room’, ‘front room’ ‘reception room’ ‘family room’ or ‘lounge’? These days it is...
by Gwendolyn Leick | Architecture, Books
Historian Gwendolyn Leick describes how some years ago as the wife of a Turk – the son of an army officer – she happened to visit Ataturk’s striking mausoleum in Ankara. Her emotional response – that included a feeling of reverence –...
by Raci | Books, Features
I always feel a sense of deep disappointment when I think of Art Deco. It happens whenever I drive by the Express building on Fleet Street or when The Great Gatsby comes up, or another book like Jared Goss’s French Art Deco is published. It’s as if there...
by Editorial Desk | Books
The extreme contrasts available in the design styles and aesthetics of the modern age are reflected in our selection of the best interior design books February 2015. On the one hand there is the somewhat elitist world of the star interior designers of London –...
by Raci | Books, Exhibition
SILENT PARTNERS: Artist and Mannequin from Function to Fetish The history of these elaborately made mannequins – or ‘lay figures’ as they are also known – has indeed been largely silent these last 500 years, during which time they have been...
by Editorial Desk | Books
For January we have a contrasting selection of titles covering art, interiors, interiors photography and design reference. Rubens and His Legacy accompanies the hotly anticipated exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts and spotlights the work of an exceptional master....
by Editorial Desk | Books
For December we have 7 of the best contenders as book gifts for the Christmas season. Included are two photography books by a couple of 20th century greats, Horst and Beaton (see also our story on the insightful ‘Beaton at Brook Street’ exhibition that...
by Editorial Desk | Books
We’ve put together 5 of the best that have come our way this November… a decorous smattering of leading interior designers and the Great Master of the Golden Age himself. Find them all at the GDC interiors Book Collection Robert Couturier Designing...
by Editorial Desk | Books
Every month we bring you some of the best interior design books that we can find. Here is our shortlist for 5 of the Best Interior Design Books for you to check out this October. We’ve selected these titles based on customer reviews, what’s been trending on social...
by Editorial Desk | Books
Browse our picks below of our best interior design books for September 2014. We’ve selected these titles based on customer reviews, what’s been trending on social media and what’s hot in the press. The English Country House By James Peill with forward by Julian...
by Raci | Books
Veranda The Art of Outdoor Living The idea of garden rooms is as old as gardens themselves. Our ancestors conceived of heaven as an enclosed garden and The Garden of Eden was the unspoiled place where harmony and happiness reigned… before humans concreted over...
