Tailored Interiors: The Bespoke Designs of Patrick Sutton

by Patrick Sutton, Vicky Lowry

288 pages, Hardcover

Published November 18, 2025

About the author

I studied under prominent deconstructionists, feminists, marxists, and other -ists and learned very little except that it's not very nice to become an ist. It took me years to recover from theory. I then practiced law for a while, did residential design and construction for a while, got married and started a family, practiced law again, then took up the pen.

I had toyed with a story idea at the intersection of physics and genetics for some time, but it was not until Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science (http://www.wolframscience.com) came out a few years ago that I found suitable scientific underpinnings for the characters and plot line I had been developing in my head. Everything snapped into focus when I read Wolfram's ideas about cellular automata, the simple programs that are capable of creating systems of great complexity.

I began writing every day in 2007. I write every morning before I go to my day job, then write or edit -- depending on how fried I am -- another shift in the evening after my wife and I get the kids to bed.