The memory palace : a book of lost interiors
"Hollis conjures great interiors now lost to history and their eclectic inhabitants. From the Palatine Hill in Rome to the palaces at Westminster and Versailles, and from the Big Brother House to the halls of curiosities at Crystal Palace, and back and forth to his own grandmother's perfectly ordered, symbolically arranged sitting room. Through these interiors, Hollis illuminates the ways in which our rooms speak for us. As we design, order and populate them with trinkets and mementos, photographs and furniture, we transform them into memory palaces which remind us of where we've come from and who we are. ..."--Back cover
ix, 351 pages ; 24 cm
9781846273254, 1846273250
851827256
Introduction: A Doll's House
Architecture: Focus
Porphyrogenitos
Domus Aurea
Domus Augusti
Regia
Lupercal
Furniture: A Table for Games
A Chair
A Table
A Cloth
A Hall
A Palace
Objects: A Cabinet of Curiosities
A Catalogue
A Cabinet