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The Urban Loft: Creating A Dream Space in the City
Lavishly illustrated with striking, full-colour photography, The Urban Loft is an instructive and frequently very funny look at one couple’s 15-year search for mid-city loft space, about finding it, buying it, gutting and renovating it, and about moving into a dazzling, one-of-a-kind residential loft of awesome dimensions – in a church in downtown Toronto. Certain to appeal to urbanites, loft dwellers, real estate agents, architects, renovators, engineers, designers, artists, singles, couples,empty nesters and people in search of ultra cool, the book is both a how-to and a how-not-to guide to the joys and heartaches of renovating – a challenge the author calls the most exhilarating and wallet-emptying experience of his lifetime. It is also a serious examination of lifestyle, the effects that living spaces have on our lives and the joys of watching a dream come true. More than 40 colour photographs and architectural drawings record the renovation from the day Martin Myers found the space, to the day he moved in, sat down, looked around, andrealized the dream was now a home.
127 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2005
About the author
Martin Myers
6 books6 followersUp to this point, I’ve written five multi-genre, comically philosophical novels, The Assignment, Frigate, Izzy Manheim’s Reunion, The Secret Viking and my latest, The NeverMind of Brian Hildebrand. I also take full blame for The Urban Loft, a renovator-in-the-wry memoir masquerading as a coffee table book.
My fiction has won wide praise in the media and in literary publications in Canada, the U.S and the U.K. The popular press compares my work to the efforts of Mel Brooks, Monty Python and the Marx Brothers, while literary critics rank it with “Kafka, Joyce, Elliot, Barthelme, Nabokov and Borges for scathing inventiveness that makes readers laugh out loud and then in an afterthought of conscience, question their own ethics, morals and reality.”
I graduated from the University of Toronto and 18 years later, post-graduated from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, where my thesis became my first novel. For a couple of years, I was a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Toronto and also taught for five years in writing workshops at the U of T and York University, where I learned more than my students. But this may be apocryphal.
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My fiction has won wide praise in the media and in literary publications in Canada, the U.S and the U.K. The popular press compares my work to the efforts of Mel Brooks, Monty Python and the Marx Brothers, while literary critics rank it with “Kafka, Joyce, Elliot, Barthelme, Nabokov and Borges for scathing inventiveness that makes readers laugh out loud and then in an afterthought of conscience, question their own ethics, morals and reality.”
I graduated from the University of Toronto and 18 years later, post-graduated from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, where my thesis became my first novel. For a couple of years, I was a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Toronto and also taught for five years in writing workshops at the U of T and York University, where I learned more than my students. But this may be apocryphal.
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