It's truley one of the best interior books I've ever seen, so unconventional it's just plain weird.
In pictures we see the bookshop interior: books piled on chairs and heaped on tables, a sleeping cat in the corner and a bust of Shakespeare on the sill.
Wood has been such a constant in their lives, the couple made it the focus of their fifth interiors book, Made of Wood.
I'm craving a parquet wall, mid-centuryish teak panelling and a kitchen table that looks more loved, which all feature in Reclaiming Style (£19.99, Ryland Peters & Small), an inspiring interiors book by architectural salvage/design company, Retrouvius.
Kyoichi Tsuzuki's seminal interiors book, "Tokyo: A Certain Style" (Chronicle, 1999), gave the aesthetic of the typical Tokyo one-room apartment a name, "the cockpit effect," and defended the tiny, overcluttered look as more of a style than the Zen empty spaces people imagine.
Then there are dishes, office interiors, books, furniture and countless other products the couple have designed for Knoll, Heller and other companies, all carrying their clean-lined aesthetic.
In addition to generating snazzy new shapes for laptops and hand-helds, this myth is transforming the look of buildings, interiors, books, landscapes, advertisements and other traditional forms of design.
It's like an interior design book.
With its hard cover and soft, hidden interior, the book in many ways resembles the human body — and the mind.
Then I was nursing so I was in about nine different hormonally altered states as I was writing – as interior a book as this is, my body demanded to be in it".
