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The Memory Palace Edward Hollis (Edinburgh College of Art)

The Memory Palace By Edward Hollis (Edinburgh College of Art)

The Memory Palace by Edward Hollis (Edinburgh College of Art)


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Summary

A brilliant, ambitious follow-up to The Secret Lives of Buildings, in which Hollis turns his focus from the great architectural constructions of the past and present to the now-vanished chambers they once contained

The Memory Palace Summary

The Memory Palace: A Book of Lost Interiors by Edward Hollis (Edinburgh College of Art)

The rooms we live in are always more than just four walls. As we decorate these spaces and fill them with objects and friends, they shape our lives and become the backdrop to our sense of self. One day, the houses will be gone, but even then, traces of the stories and the memories they contained will remain. In this dazzling work of imaginative re-construction, Edward Hollis takes us to the sites of five great spaces now lost to history and pieces together the fragments he finds there to re-create their vanished chambers. From Rome's Palatine to the old Palace of Westminster and the Petit Trianon at Versailles, and from the sets of the MGM studios in Hollywood to the pavilions of the Crystal Palace and his own grandmother's sitting room, The Memory Palace is a glittering treasure trove of luminous forgotten places and the people who, for a short time, made them their home.

About Edward Hollis (Edinburgh College of Art)

Born in London in 1970, EDWARD HOLLIS studied Architecture at the universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh before joining a practice, working first on ruins and follies in Sri Lanka and then on villas, breweries and town halls in Scotland. He teaches at Edinburgh College of Art and his first book was The Secret Lives of Buildings.

Additional information

GOR005924113
9781846273254
1846273250
The Memory Palace: A Book of Lost Interiors by Edward Hollis (Edinburgh College of Art)
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Granta Books
20130905
368
Long-listed for Samuel Johnson Prize 2013 (UK)
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