a way of lifea way of life
is a lavishly illustrated large-size hardback book written and designed by
Jim Ede. Put together as lovingly as Kettle's Yard itself, it takes the form
of a guided tour: you enter the door and go round the house, taking in the
rooms one by one, seeing the light play on glass, china, wood, stone and canvas,
and seeing how the art and the living-space bring each other alive. A series
of remarkable black and white photographs catches the spirit that Jim Ede
was trying to evoke, and the text comments on them.
The visit is interwoven with Ede's account of earlier attempts to create the same wholeness in previous houses in London, Morocco and France. He has also placed in the spaces and intervals of the book his choice of poetic texts; an anthology which indicates the spirit in which he has worked.
254 pages, 290mm x 350mm, 230 B&W illustrations
ISBN
0 907074 57 X (second edition 1996)
978 0 907074 57 1 (reprint 2007)
price 49.95 UK pounds [Friends price 42.45]
plus postage and packing [all prices in UK pounds]
within UK +9.60
Europe +10.50
world zone 1 [US etc] +20.40
world zone 2 [Australia etc] +22.90
payment by cheque only - in Pounds Sterling made payable to 'University of Cambridge'
please send to:
Kettle's Yard (publications)
Castle Street, Cambridge CB3 0AQ, UK