The Monocle Guide to Cosy Homes (Monocle Book Collection) by Monocle


The Monocle Guide to Cosy Homes (Monocle Book Collection)
Title : The Monocle Guide to Cosy Homes (Monocle Book Collection)
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ISBN : 3899555600
ISBN-10 : 9783899555608
Language : English
Format Type : Hardcover
Number of Pages : 400
Publication : First published September 1, 2015

This Monocle book tells us how to turn a house into a home. Both a practical guide and a great source of inspiration, The Monocle Guide to Cosy Homes presents the interiors, furniture, and locations you need to know about along with portraits of the people who can make it happen. The Monocle Guide to Cosy Homes celebrates the durable and the meaningful through a collection of homes that tell a story. Most architecture and interior books show houses polished to perfection, manicured to the extent that it is hard to imagine anybody acually lives there: they seem to miss the point that homes are meant to be inhabited. They should be able to take the scuffs and knocks and to be part of a community, whether in a Chicago skyscraper or on Australia's sunshine coast. So where are the best places to make a home? What are the villages, coastlines, mountains, towns, and cities that would make you want to settle down? The Monocle Guide to Cosy Homes answers those questions with a global photographic survey of a wide variety of homes. Whether the focus is on a remote residence in the Swedish archipelago or a lush abode in Rio de Janeiro, or on the difference between residing in Tokyo and Toronto, this book is the perfect balance between the inspirational and the practical. The book is a survey of everything you need to know to build the residence of your dreams, providing insight into the best neighborhoods, architects, and makers all over the world. From design-store owners to green-roof gardeners, The Monocle Guide to Cosy Homes introduces you to interesting people with ideas that are built to last. Monocle's signature illustrations punctuate the book's rich and detailed content. Through striking photography, The Monocle Guide to Cosy Homes also gives you a glimpse into the lives that unfold in these apartments, villas, and cottages, showing that these homes are alive and that this is precisely what makes them special. This is a book that should be referred to again and again--it is a book about the quality of life.

The Monocle Guide to Cosy Homes (Monocle Book Collection) Reviews

  • Manik Sukoco

    Wonderful time. Beautifully written. Small, warm, and digestible pieces.

  • Fab

    This is a great guide for helping you creating a home that is a joy to live in. The main highlight of the book is the numerous glossy photographs of homes around the world in different settings (cities, suburbs, mountains, beaches, etc.) Like all the Monocle guides it's beautifully designed, is very inspirational and makes for an excellent coffee table book.

  • Christoph Weber

    Very nice collection of articles out of the Monocle magazines. Gives you ideas... but as most of the featured homes are basically huge and filled with stuff like Wegner chairs, it will be hard to replicate it. Or just the feel of it: not everyone spends upwards of 3k euros on a chair alone!

  • Amy

    Ahh so good, makes me want to immediately move out of rented accommodation, hire an architect and surround myself with mid-century furniture. In a way heartbreaking!

  • Marysya Rudska

    Чудова книжка про затишне житло. Повна натхнення, мрій, якісних фоток.

  • Maureen

    The only part of this worth spending time on are the larger scale photographs at the end of the book about light coming from windows. The rest of it could quite be called The Monocle Guide to Rich People Attempting Authentic Spaces

  • Chris

    Beautifully designed and written, as all Monocle publications are. This has a great set of essays detailing every facet of home life, but I find the shopping guides section (a significant portion of the latter half of the book), is of limited value for those that don’t travel to a different European or Japanese city every weekend. Still, a fun coffee table read for the aspirational.

  • Ashley Reiter

    What a beautiful collection of real homes, some of professionals (architects, designers), and also regular folk. This gave me a greater appreciation for interior design, famous chairs, international styles, and a thirst for more. This deserves dedicated coffee table real estate.

  • DJ

    Nice but wanted more!

  • Agatha Astari

    I waited pretty long to buy this book, since it was quiet pricey. The content was super worth it, they're photographed and written so beautifully, some even almost made me cry.

  • Harald G

    The Monocle Brand is foremost known for its monthly magazine that focuses on design, lifestyle, politics and culture and has enjoyed the attention of its rather affluent and cosmopolitan readership for 1,5 decades. During this period of time the brand has expanded into adjoining media and products such as its own radio broadcasting channel(s), add. periodicals and of course design conscious books, such as this one, to further spread the good word of lasting design.
    The Guide to cosy homes, as the name already suggests, is a compilation of exisiting homes and the concept behind them, as well as general practical suggestions and products to improve any home in question. While rich in pictures and inspirations is it more than just a coffee table book, as the publisher takes the time to elaborate on the ideas and concepts behind the object and shares them with the reader. Nice to look at, but also a compelling read, not just for those about to buy or re-model their own homes.