I LOVE this book! Found by chance on one of my library browsing (research) afternoons - it is a glorious sneak peak inside the homes of a collection of designers, artists, actors and creative types. Beautifully set out, the book leads you seamlessly, addictivley, from page to page. Highly individual text is patch-worked with a glorious photographs of particular spaces in their home. Personality oozes out over every page. I am going to post a few of these as I don't plan on returning this book for a little while yet (unless you really want to have a look...)
"That people could come into the world in a place they could not at first even name and had never known before; and that out of a nameless and unknown place they could grow and move around in it until its name they knew and called with love, and call it HOME, and put roots there and love others there; so that whenever they left this place they would sing homesick songs about it and write poems of yearning for it, like a lover;...."[William Goyen, HOUSE OF BREATH]
Stafford Cliff: London based design consultant and art director. Has worked with Conran, producing over 60 books on aspects of design and the home.
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