The Monocle Book of Homes

by Monocle, Tyler Brule, Nolan Giles

From the team at Monocle , a look at some of the coziest and most creative homes around the world. Good homes are places where lives unfold, families grow up, dogs jump on sofas, and friends share meals. They’re also spaces to find some solitude―a quiet corner to read a book or have a Saturday afternoon nap. Homes need to do it all―they sustain you, inspire you, and tell your story through architecture, design, and collections. Monocle has always celebrated everything that makes a space a home when covering residences―whether featuring a city hideaway, a modernist seaside residence, or a summer outpost in a forest. The Monocle team brings this all together in one volume that explores individual homes, housing projects old and new, communities of self-builders, even whole neighborhoods where a simple philosophy of building well has created quality of life for many. The Monocle Book of the Home is packed with great photography that delivers the bigger picture and the smallest details alongside fascinating essays full of advice by key thinkers, writers, and designers. As we spend more time at home than ever, this is a book that could change how you live. Illustrated in color throughout

Genres: Nonfiction, Architecture, Coffee Table Books

304 pages, Hardcover

Published August 10, 2021

Reviews

[Lucy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Overall rather disappointing.
Too many instances where safety wasn't considered, especially not having railings on raised decks and handrails on stairways. Some photographs too dark to discern what they're depicting. One house where the write-up twice highlighted an interesting table with a firepit in the middle had no picture of it, though there were photos of other things in that house.
There was no date on any of the articles or photos, even though the parent magazine has been around for 15 years. No updates are mentioned to say if there has been any change in any of the buildings or homes since the article was originally published. We don't know if any of the Beirut houses shown are still standing after all the turmoil there in the last few years. And the book was published in 2021.
The sections are: The Homes, Essays, Community, Greenery, Materials, Details, Designs for Living. Only the first section is printed on glossy paper, the rest are on matte-finished paper.

[Gloria · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lovely book to look at; difficulty understanding the homes themselves (eg. in determining how the home was laid out, etc) so really a bit of eye-candy and, when you apply some brain power, a bit of inspiration.

Borrowed from library.

[Mary Lynn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting! A book of ideas.

[pperi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Found the first section showcasing 20 homes a little pretentious, but really liked the essays in the second half of the book!