The kinfolk garden How to live with nature

John Burns, 1968-

Book - 2020

"Since the launch of its magazine in 2011, Kinfolk has grown into an internationally recognized brand known for its minimalist aesthetic and strong community of inspiring and influential creatives. Kinfolk's books, with a combined 335,000 copies in print, have applied this lens to cooking, home design, and work. Now, in The Kinfolk Garden, the team turns its eye to outdoor spaces and the many ways they enhance our lives and help us foster community. With a focus on spaces that bring the outdoors in and the indoors out and people who have found ways to expertly incorporate the natural world into their lives, the book explores the garden as a place for work, play, entertaining, and inspiration. Featuring 30 homeowners and their spac...es in locations around the globe, The Kinfolk Garden offers an easy approach to bringing nature home"--

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Illustrated works
Published
New York, NY : Artisan Books, a division of Workman Publishing Co., Inc 2020.
Language
English
Corporate Author
Kinfolk (Art publisher)
Main Author
John Burns, 1968- (author)
Corporate Author
Kinfolk (Art publisher) (-)
Physical Description
351 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
ISBN
9781579659844
  • Care
  • Creativity
  • Community.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

In this gorgeous, aspirational work, Burns, editor-in-chief of Kinfolk magazine, collects "stories about nature as nourishment" along with photographs from homes across the globe to inspire people to bring more nature into their own abodes. Burns organizes the book into three main themes: care, creativity, and community, respectively illustrated by an Italian expat in Tangier whose garden is dedicated to flowers threatened by industrialization, a Tokyo landscape designer who's filled his glass house with tropicals, and a Beirut-based entrepreneur whose latest enterprise is a guesthouse surrounded by produce gardens. Throughout are sidebars on garden-related tips ranging from the practical (caring for houseplants and selecting vases) to the twee ("how to talk to plants"). The photos, meanwhile, emphasize natural lighting and highlight spaces characterized by rough-hewn wood tables, hand-thrown pottery, handwoven cloth, and rough, pigmented walls. Adding to the aesthetic of understated chic, the featured homeowners usually sport stylish ensembles of chore coats, cashmere, and rumpled linen. Expertly evoking a mood of understated luxury, this stunning spread will have design junkies drooling. (Oct.)

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