The See-Through House - My Father in Full Colour

Informationen zum Autor Shelley Klein was born in Scotland in 1963, the youngest daughter of textile designer Bernat and knitwear designer Margaret Klein. She left the See-Through House in 2017 and now lives in London where she works as a writer. Klappentext Shelley Klein looks back on growing up in a modernist open-plan 'See-Through House' with her design pioneer father Bernat Klein, and moving back to the aesthetically distinctive residence to care for her father thirty years later. Set to invite comparison with the appeal of both "Grand Designs" and "Who Do You Think You Are?". Zusammenfassung *As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week*'Funny, nuanced and disarmingly honest, Klein's writing will transport you into her world' Sunday Times, Books of the Year 2020The See-Through House is a book about saying goodbye to a much-loved family home.

Product details

• Authors: Shelley Klein
• Publisher: Chatto and Windus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781784743109
• ISBN: 978-1-78474-310-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 213 mm x 29 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Individual architects & architectural firms, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Fatherhood, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Houses, apartments, flats, etc, Needlework & fabric crafts, Local and family history, nostalgia, Architecture: residential and domestic buildings, Coping with death and bereavement, Lowland Scotland and Borders, Lowland Scotland & Borders, Individual architects and architectural firms