Every Room Tells a Story: Tales from the Pages of Nest Magazine

by Joseph Holtzman (Editor), Julie Alvarez, Matthew Stadler (Introduction)

Every Room Tells a Story offers the most interesting and provocative interiors published to date in the first 12 issues of the widely acclaimed interiors and design magazine, nest. Called, among other things, "Homes and Gardens for the decadent and deranged" (Wallpaper), the special chemistry of nest brings it all under one not only David Mlinaric's interiors for the Rothschild home at Waddesdon Manor, Gabhan O'Keeffe's redecoration of Sao Schlumberger's Paris apartment, a recreation of Louis Comfort Tiffany's lost designs for the White House Blue Room, but also an Inuit igloo, the tents of Tibetan nomads, a U.S. Navy nuclear submarine, and women's prison cells. And because process is as interesting as result, Editor in Chief and Art Director Joseph Holtzman takes readers behind the scenes and shares the way his unique features are hatched and achieve adulthood. The book includes photography and text by more than 50 of the magazine's contributors, as well as examples of specially commissioned design a flipbook by Matt Groening, a flocked wallpaper by Rosemarie Trockel, a chair by Tom Sachs, and a textile by Todd Oldham. Every Room Tells a Story will be a must for all fans of the magazine, and will also introduce its one-of-a-kind sensibility to the uninitiated.

Genres: Nonfiction

208 pages, Hardcover

First published October 15, 2001

Reviews

[Kat · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wish there were more complete articles and features but it was enough to make me start chasing old issues of Nest!

[David · Rating 3 out of 5]

look. if you are too lazy to go to dusty bookstores and dig around looking for the original magazines, then this is the book for you. a nice sample of what the magazine was about. but the magazines! oh the magazines should be put in glass cases for people to admire. for people to stand there before the glass box with their hands on their chins, contemplating. making associations. or saying "i could do that," all half-assedly. but they cant. they couldnt. the original magazines were pieces of art with the best articles and photographs of shelters. just places that people call home. i am talking cardboard boxes. crumbling mansions in cuba. and deluxe apartments in the sky. on some nights when i am tallulah bankhead drunk i find myself staring at the walls. and shelves. the books piled everywhere. i have the magazines lined up on a shelf. perfect yellow bindings. sunlight in an otherwise drab, grey room.

[Emily · Rating 3 out of 5]

I loved the short-lived magazine Nest, especially its interview with Amy Sedaris, who has the coolest apartment ever. The book doesn't really capture all that but it has some cool pictures.