Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 747
EAN num: 9781891024283
ISBN number: 1891024280
Label: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishing houses, Ltd.
Manufacturer: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishing houses, Ltd.
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 208
Printing Date: October 15, 2001
Publishing house: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishing houses, Ltd.
Release Date: September 02, 2001
Sale Popularity Level: 1093606
Studio: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishing houses, Ltd.
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Description: Every Room Tells a Story offers the most interesting and provocative interiors published to date in the very first 12 issues of the widely acclaimed interiors and design magazine, nest. Called, among other things, 'Homes and Gardens for the decadent and deranged' (Wallpaper), the special chemistry of nest brings it all under one roof: not only David Mlinaric's interiors for the Rothschild home at Waddesdon Manor, Gabhan O'Keeffe's redecoration of Sao Schlumberger's Paris apartment, a recreation of Louis Comfort Tiffany's lost designs for the White House Blue Room, but also an Inuit igloo, the tents of Tibetan nomads, a U.S. Navy nuclear submarine, and women's prison cells. And because process is as interesting as result, Editor in Chief and Art Director Joseph Holtzman takes readers behind the scenes and shares the way his unique features are hatched and achieve adulthood. The book includes photography and text by more than 50 of the magazine's contributors, as well as examples of specially commissioned design projects: a flipbook by Matt Groening, a flocked wallpaper by Rosemarie Trockel, a chair by Tom Sachs, and a textile by Todd Oldham. Every Room Tells a Story will be a must for all fans of the magazine, and will also introduce its one-of-a-kind sensibility to the uninitiated.
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This is a study of how we live! This Magazine reveiwed interiors with insight and creativity. It's publication ran counter to the Architectural Digests and the Martha Stewarts of popular demand, and both of which become predictable and lack the ability to really study living homes. If you missed the magazine's 4 year run and can't find the collection on e-bay then you should go for the book. The graphic lay out of the magazine was in itself punchy, wrapped and never square. each copy came with an unusual twist or toy to play with. If you are looking for show house interiors... this is not for you, but if you are some one who seeks creativity and is not shy you should read this from cover to cover and then go find the original magazines... it will change your perspective bringing new and unexpected pleasure to this venue of what is home and good design.
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Having been lucky enough to spend one week in a "deep-South" county jail for hitch hiking on expressways (back in the 70's) ... then released with no charge! I loved the Nest article on the cells. I bought Nest for our guests in Chateau-Bois-Briand because of its sophistication and originality. Most of our guests are "road-warriors" and "trouble-shooters" who enjoy reading this kind of books, sipping a Cognac subsequent to the fire-place in a 600-years old castle.
Viewpoints and pictures are so unusual that you never get bored. Nest is a reference. This is why I would advise to buy it, either as a magazine or as a book like this one. You will never throw it away.
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Had Amazon allowed me to preview even a single page from inside the book, I never would have bought it. A curiosity, a novelty, a cultural speciman, it may be. But as far removed from helpful or even interesting as one can get.
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Poorly designed, nothing more than reprints of selected pages from each issue. If Nest is going to do a book, I want to see a "Nest"-y type book featuring the same wit and creativity that characterizes the magazine, not some self-congratulatory, half-baked reprint. Buy the back issues instead, don't waste your money.
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Holtzman is the John Waters of interior design: ironic, iconoclastic, an impresario of the outrageous. His publication is die-cut and drilled (I thought Grant Mudford was going to punch him out for piercing his images when the two met at an LA reception for nest) but never dull. This editor has progressed far beyond conventional notions of good taste, juxtaposing stately homes and prison cells, trailers and Carlo MollinoÕs Turin apartment in a surreal collision of styles. As a minimalist I put down this book with a shudderÑthe riotous excess brought on an attack of claustrophobiaÑbut others may love it. (Michael Webb is the book reviewer for LA Architect magazine.)
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