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My Prescription For Anti-Depressive Living
Jonathan Adler
Collins
November 2005
On Sale: November 1, 2005
208 pages
ISBN: 0060820535
EAN: 9780060820534
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
My Prescription for Anti-Depressive Living offers a window
into the life and mind of an extraordinarily creative person
who was once told by a pottery professor that he had no
talent and should consider another career. Not only did
Adler stick with pottery, he transformed it from a dreary,
unappealing summer camp craft into a contemporary signifier
of modern, handcrafted luxury and became America's first
(and only) celebrity potter. Interior designer Bill Sofield
has declared, "Jonathan Adler does for American pottery what
Noel Coward did for cocktail parties -- he makes life witty,
sophisticated, and simply delicious." And now, on a much
larger canvas, Adler reveals how you can do the same. My
Prescription for Anti-Depressive Living explores Jonathan's
own tongue-in-cheek design "manifesto," with each chapter
devoted to a different "tenet," moving through the major
incarnations of his interiors and products and ending with
the story of his personal creative odyssey. The book is a
visual feast, jam-packed with images of interiors and
objects for the home, both those designed by Jonathan and
those that have inspired him. At the heart of the book are
ten of Adler's signature interiors, ranging from
photographer Andrea Stern's landmark modernist beach house
to the Parker Palm Springs, a desert resort that Adler gave
a head-to-toe makeover. Overviews and details of the Parker
are prominently featured throughout the book, as are images
of the three homes (in Greenwich Village, Shelter Island,
and Palm Beach) Jonathan and his partner, Simon Doonan,
share with their dog, Liberace, and five other private
residences. Part portrait of the artist as a young
decorator, part call to armchairs, Adler's much-anticipated
literary debut is spirited, provocative, and, ultimately,
inspiring.
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