A Way of Life

ISBN 978 0 907074 57 1 (reprint 2007)
254 pages, 290mm x 350mm
230 B&W illustrations

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A Way of Life is currently out of print. We are in the process of reprinting this popular publication and details will appear here when it becomes available again.

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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 worked.