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A book about maximalism that has no photographs in it to illustrate what the author is talking about entirely misses the mark for me, I'm afraid. The rich embellishment and patterning on every page is beautiful but sometimes makes the text hard to read because of the font colour against all the othe......more

This book was honestly a bat shit ride. And one I enjoyed but it's not a good book. I received this as a gift and happily began to rifle through the pages only to realize that for a book about design... there were no images, no illustrations, no diagrams. Yes, the text was placed over quintessential......more

On TV, Llewellyn-Bowen comes across as very charming and erudite – but , I guess, that’s when he’s been ‘curated’ by a director. In this book, he’s verbiose and pretty random . It really does lack pictures (relevant pictures, that is). But it is a physically beautiful book and looks perfect laid on......more

This was probably the strangest—and yet bizarrely enlightening—book on interior design I've read yet. I think I am probably a maximalist at heart; I love the idea that objects hold memories and tell the story of your life. And yet I don't think that idea wholly contradictory to Marie Kondo's maxim t......more