John Burns is the editor in chief of Kinfolk, a quarterly magazine based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 2011, Kinfolk delves into personal values and quality of life, and inspires its readers to approach life with intention, energy, and a sense of community. Other books in this series include The Kinfolk Table, The Kinfolk Home, and The Kinfolk Entrepreneur.
“What’s the antithesis of a Zoom meeting? Spending time with a book
about plants and the creative people who live alongside them. The
latest release from the Copenhagen-based lifestyle brand spans a
Southwestern ranch, a Japanese landscape designer’s home, and a
curvilinear hideaway built within a Mexican rainforest. There are
practical tips for hopeful green thumbs, too.”
—Vanity Fair
“In this gorgeous, aspirational work, Burns, editor-in-chief of
Kinfolk magazine, collects ‘stories about nature as nourishment’
along with photographs from homes across the globe to inspire
people to bring more nature into their own abodes. Burns organizes
the book into three main themes: care, creativity, and community,
respectively illustrated by an Italian expat in Tangier whose
garden is dedicated to flowers threatened by industrialization, a
Tokyo landscape designer who’s filled his glass house with
tropicals, and a Beirut-based entrepreneur whose latest enterprise
is a guesthouse surrounded by produce gardens. Throughout are
sidebars on garden-related tips ranging from the practical (caring
for houseplants and selecting vases) to the twee (“how to talk to
plants”). The photos, meanwhile, emphasize natural lighting and
highlight spaces characterized by rough-hewn wood tables,
hand-thrown pottery, handwoven cloth, and rough, pigmented walls.
Adding to the aesthetic of understated chic, the featured
homeowners usually sport stylish ensembles of chore coats,
cashmere, and rumpled linen. Expertly evoking a mood of understated
luxury, this stunning spread will have design junkies
drooling.”
—Publishers Weekly
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