The Kinfolk Home: Interiors For Slow Living

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The Kinfolk Home: Interiors For Slow Living

The Kinfolk Home: Interiors For Slow Living

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Well written but predictable towards the end; few characters you'd want to build an attachment with so you won't. Which brings me to the next point - yes, almost all the interiors are of the now-trending Scandinavian style. You'd think they were all designed by the same person. Lies meant to shelter, lies out of spite, lies for selfish gain; the world is full of lies and I want out! A follow-up to the widely popular The Kinfolk Table, this time focusing on interior design and the trend of cultivating a more intentional, more intimate home

The Kinfolk Home takes readers inside 35 homes around the world, from the United States, Scandinavia, Japan, and beyond. Some have constructed modern urban homes from blueprints, while others nurture their home's long history. What all of these spaces have in common is that they've been put together carefully, slowly, and with great intention. Featuring inviting photographs and insightful profiles, interviews, and essays, each home tour is guaranteed to inspire. Miquel was rewarded for his risky decisions with a collection that grew into the foundation of his personal home near Barcelona’s city center, where he now lives with his wife, África Posse, and her son, Santiago. The building is located in a small suburb at the foot of Mt. Tibidabo called Pedralbes (Catalan for “white stones”), which is known for its architectural history and for having some of the most well-preserved Gothic architecture in western Europe. Miquel was originally drawn to their building because it spoke to his passion for French design. “Catalan culture has been greatly influenced by French culture, but this wasn’t often reflected on an architectural level. This building does have this influence, though, and I like that,” Miquel says. The structure was designed in the 1940s by Raimon Duran i Reynals, who respected French and neoclassical styles. I found this book a heavy read. I think I need a break. A read of fluff, and lightness; a book that looks at the world through rose colored glasses. "Kinfolk" is not for the faint of heart. My house was intentionally designed to accommodate multiple configurations of relationships, activities and events, despite its modest scale,” says Geraldine, a health and social policy researcher. She loves sharing her space with guests and frequently offers up her house as an inner-city venue for friends to host events. “Shared living is an important part of being operative in society and the world,” she says. The house has accommodated various tenants over the years, including Timothy Hill—the lead architect of the D House—and her current lodger, the filmmaker and photographer Alex Chomicz.

The people who lived in the houses seemed much of a muchness too. They have jobs like artist, architect, entrepreneur, furniture designer, interior designer, landscape designer, clothes designer. They use only natural materials for their interiors and their clothes, cotton, wool, linen, silk. Their children, who all read well above grade level, play only with wooden toys, or perhaps antique toys covered in artfully peeling lead paint. Yes, some of the featured interiors did belong to people who had given up phones, computers, and other technology, or who were working in jobs that had to do with traditional crafting (e.g. carpentry). But in no way were the interiors special or tailored in such a way that it reflected the "slowness" of life these people apparently led. If you'd walked into one of these homes, you'd just feel it was just another contemporary Scandi-style home.

Although slow living may conjure up visions of sparsely furnished interiors, many here illustrate crowded bookshelves, art-filled walls, and rooms populated with children and pets in close to 300 color photographs. VERDICT This handsome volume filled with visuals and advice shows how to create an environment surrounded by meaningful objects and designed to facilitate the enjoyment of life." This is a beautiful coffee table book with gorgeous photographs and nice minimalist interiors (everyone is either an architect or designer of some sort). However this book is only enjoyable if you skip the text as a lot of it is made of very common and basic statements; here are a few “gems”: “Emma’s family loves having taco dinners at their kitchen table”; “working from home has its benefits, such as avoiding the daily commute”; “early mornings are dark and quiet”. It’s akin to me writing “drinking coffee provides me with a nice peaceful yet energising moment”. If you are going to write such general statements, you might just as well skip it as it does not do justice to the aesthetic and pretentiousness sought after. The Kinfolk Home welcomes readers into 35 homes around the world that reflect some of the key principles of slow living: cultivating community, simplifying our lives and reclaiming time for what matters most. Nathan Williams' first home-design book is as tightly curated as his wildly popular magazine, Kinfolk. The Kinfolk Home features 35 diverse residences across five continents, each with owners who have created environs that are authentic to their values and living style." This introduction soon turned into a deep obsession and the 1950s style of functional furnishings permeated every aspect of his life. “One doesn’t choose his whims, his passions or his follies,” Miquel says. “I got there by being curious, and I turned it into a way of learning, a way of living and, later on, into a job and a business.” He started looking for Prouvé and Perriand’s pieces, buying them and offering them to customers. “Each acquisition meant a period of trouble for my finances, but I loved to collect them,” he says.One woman even lives a life of beautiful austerity in Japan where she spurns modern refrigeration in favor of drawing cool water from her well to keep things from going off. At least the ending's good; predictable but good. Left with a feeling of hope. New beginnings. A past laid to rest. Loose ends left untied; but, somehow, this time, it's all gonna be alright. stars because it's a story hard to put down, even when you want to; 4 stars because this book will stay with you. Fiction, far-fetched; but, maybe not. Fantastical but closer to home than we'd ever want to admit.



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