Artists' Homes: Live/Work Spaces for Modern Makers

(Hardback)

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In Artists' Homes, writer and photographer Tom Harford Thompson presents some thirty individual, eccentric houses and workspaces, from a music producer's studio in Hackney to an eco-warrior's treehouse on the Sussex Downs. His evocative photographs show how our live/work spaces, whether a tumbledown cottage, a country farmhouse or a reclaimed factory, are beautiful because of the lives we live in them. With work no longer separate from home life, we see how these artists function in the homes that inspire them, pursuing the life creative.

Among the artists and craftspeople featured are Billy Childish, co-founder of the Stuckist art movement; Penny Rimbaud and Gee Vaucher, creative partners who set up their home and studio as an 'anarchist-pacifist open house' (Dial House, in Essex); music producer Liam Watson of the famed London studio Toe Rag; vintage motorcycle dealer Ian Hatton, of cult shop Verrall's; vintner Peter Hall of Breaky Bottom Vineyard, one of the first wineries in the UK; and many more.

Reviews

'Celebrates an attitude to life the antidote to the standard coffee table book' - The Spaces
'Tom Harford Thompson goes snooping inside the homes of artists and craftsmen to uncover how the creative among us live' - City AM
'A tour of creative spaces, from an eco tree house to a reclaimed factory' - Homes & Antiques

Author Bio

Tom Harford Thompson is an interiors writer and photographer. His work has featured in both the Guardian and Art Review.