Edward Hollis

Memory Palace

A Book of Lost Interiors

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The rooms we live in are always more than just four walls. As we decorate these spaces and fill them with objects and friends, they shape our lives and become the backdrop to our sense of self. One day, the houses will be gone, but even then, traces of the stories and the memories they contained will remain. In this dazzling work of imaginative re-construction, Edward Hollis takes us to the sites of five great spaces now lost to history and pieces together the fragments he finds there to re-create their vanished chambers. From Rome's Palatine to the old Palace of Westminster and the Petit Trianon at Versailles, and from the sets of the MGM st… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-84627-495-4
EAN: 9781846274954
Produktnummer: 35943733
Verlag: Granta Publications
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 0 S.
Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor

Born in London in 1971, Edward Hollis studied Architecture at the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh before joining a practice, working first on ruins and follies in the coastal lagoons of Sri Lanka and then on Victorian villas, old breweries and town halls in Scotland. He now teaches Interior Design at Edinburgh College of Art. The Secret Lives of Buildings was his first book.