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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