One of the most enjoyable projects I’ve ever done for Nibs was a series of fireplace mantels. The mantel was in the master bedroom of an old house that I got to borrow for several weeks. I indulged myself with all kinds of ideas that I’d always wanted to try out in my own home but couldn’t. And now I’m toying with the fun idea of doing a small, self-published book using them.
Books
A Page From…
…’Home‘ by Magnum Photographers, 2018.
Quote- ‘The Crossroads Of Should And Must’
“Should is how other people want us to live our lives.
Must is who we are, what we believe, and what we do when we are alone with our truest, most authentic self. It’s that which calls to us most deeply.”
– ‘The Crossroads Of Should And Must’ by Elle Luna, 2015
On My Re-Reading List
#27. Interior Design- ‘ Mary Emmerling’s American Country Classics‘ by Mary Emmerling and Carol Sheehan. Photographs by Chris Mead, 1990.
“…To me, American Country represents the most comfortable and meaningful identity one could ever hope to achieve for one’s home…”
A Page From…
…’Miss Violet’s Doll’s House‘ By Sam McKechnie, 2017.
A Page From…
… ‘Cecil Beaton At Home: An Interior Life‘ By Andrew Ginger, 2016.
On My Reading List
#26. Novel- ‘Love In A Dry Season‘ by Shelby Foote, 1951.
“Major Malcolm Barcroft was sixty-seven when he died, the last male of his line. Accompanied as it was by word of his daughter’s peculiar reaction, the announcement of his death caused people to remember many things about his life which they otherwise might have forgotten, as is usually the way in the formality of getting a man of property buried and awaiting the reading of his will.”