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The Memory Palace: A Book of Lost Interiors Hardback - 2014

by Edward Hollis

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A brilliant, ambitious follow-up to The Secret Lives of Buildings, in which Hollis turns his focus from the great architectural constructions of the past to the now-vanished chambers they once contained.


The rooms we live in are always more than just four walls. As we decorate these spaces and fill them with objects and friends, they shape our lives and become the backdrop to our sense of self. one day, the structures will be gone, but even then, traces of the stories and the memories they contained will persist. In this dazzling work of imaginative reconstruction, edward Hollis takes us to the sites of great abodes now lost to history and piecing together the fragments that remain, re-creates their vanished chambers.


From Rome's palatine to the old palace of Westminster and the petit Trianon at Versailles, from the sets of MGM studios in Hollywood to the pavilions of the Crystal palace and the author's own grandmother's sitting room, The Memory Palace is a glittering treasure trove of luminous forgotten places and the alluring people who lived in them.

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  • Title The Memory Palace: A Book of Lost Interiors
  • Author Edward Hollis
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Counterpoint LLC, Berkeley, CA
  • Publication date 2014-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781619022485 / 1619022486
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1.5 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 3.81 cm)
  • Category Art & Art Instruction
  • Library of Congress subjects Interior architecture - Psychological aspects, House furnishings - Psychological aspects
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2013042668
  • Dewey Decimal Code 729

About the author

Born in London in 1970, Edward Hollis studied Architecture at the universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh before joining a practice, working first on ruins and follies in Sri Lanka and then on villas, brewiers and town halls in Scotland. He teaches at Edinburgh College of Art.
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