Interest in home design has been on the rise for some time, but Kinfolk's focus on slowing down and creating a more intentional, beautiful home is where the attention is shifting. Through luscious photographs and insightful interviews, the author takes us into 40 homes around the world, from the Americas to Europe, Asia to Africa, ending in Australia. The homes range from an old cabin in the woods to clean-lined modern apartments, from singles living in small spaces to sprawling, multi-generational houses in the country. Each will feel unmistakably Kinfolk.
The book is full of well photographed interior spaces full of well orchestrated curated items. It's precisely that which falls flat for me. It seems very much like a catalogue of potential shopping list items wrapped around fluffy philosophy 'woo'.
I am ordinarily a pinterest-pinning, list writing, someday-for-my-dream-home fool, so I'm not quite sure why this book annoyed me so much. The aesthetic (Scandinavian, mostly) doesn't really appeal much to me, so there's that... The Asian and American homes didn't seem to grab me either, though.
So much of the book seemed smug, clad in designer-ese captions dressed up in feng shui wordbites.
