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  • 3 weeks ago | worldofinteriors.com | Mitchell Owens |Annie Schlechter

    ‘It’s not like traffic or taxis blaring at night,’ says artist Scott Houston McBee, cocking his shaggy blond head a bit, as James Andrew, his partner – a decorator – chimes in: ‘Not like traffic, at all.’ Suddenly, as if on cue, a lively song enters the flat from the adjacent street, a childish song, warbled in multiple little voices, all of them highly pitched. Then, silence, as the children scatter and separate, replaced by the subdued whooshing of automobiles, and, yes, taxicabs.

  • 1 month ago | worldofinteriors.com | Mitchell Owens

    Awkwardly thick and squat in form, A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction is not a sexy book. The art direction is minimal: no fonts delight, no layouts divert. Its creamy pages – 1,171 of them – are innocent of colour images, and what illustrations do exist are mostly murky black-and-white photographs, as if spat from a printer perilously low on toner and then photocopied. It is as basic as basic can be, and therein lies its brilliance.

  • 1 month ago | worldofinteriors.com | Mitchell Owens

    Compelling circumstances aside – say the involvement of a renowned architect or interior designer – most of today’s stars of stage and screen tend to keep their front doors firmly shut to enquiring eyes. In less privacy- and safety-conscious days, though, celebrities didn’t mind inviting prominent writers into their homes, then generally DIY in terms of the decorations, and letting them report on the experience.

  • 1 month ago | worldofinteriors.com | Mitchell Owens

    Opening eyes surely is the goal of every book published about architecture and design; or at least it should be. In the case of An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the 19th Century, one can be assured that orbs around the world were suitably widened.

  • 2 months ago | worldofinteriors.com | Mitchell Owens

    Not judging a book by its cover would be a grave error when it comes to The Strange Life of Objects: 35 Centuries of Art Collecting and Collectors (Atheneum 1961).

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