The Great Gatsby is an interior book, little concerned with externals.
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.
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.
Sit down in a book store or library and flip through photo, art or interior design books.
So when we were hanging out, our conversations revolved around the interior design books and magazines Steven had. Rose Cumming was amazing.
I always think about Genet because he always used to write these really interior, beautiful books.
If Path was a book, it was about not knowing, about being lost, and about darkness, the darkness of the deep interior, a book you read with your feet.
