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23%OFFEdward Hollis - The Memory Palace: A Book of Lost Interiors - 9781846273261 - V9781846273261
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The Memory Palace: A Book of Lost Interiors

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Description for The Memory Palace: A Book of Lost Interiors Paperback. A brilliant, ambitious follow-up to The Secret Lives of Buildings, in which Hollis turns his focus from the great architectural constructions of the past and present to the now-vanished chambers they once contained Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: AMR; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 23. Weight in Grams: 256.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Portobello Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846273261
SKU
V9781846273261
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Ref
99-99

About Edward Hollis
Born in London in 1970, EDWARD HOLLIS studied Architecture at the universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh before joining a practice, working first on ruins and follies in Sri Lanka and then on villas, breweries and town halls in Scotland. He teaches at Edinburgh College of Art and his first book, The Secret Lives of Buildings, was longlisted for the Guardian ... Read more

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