Asia the Beautiful Cookbook: Authentic Recipes From Japan, Korea, China, the Phillipines, Thailand, Laos, and Kampuchea, Vietnam, Singapore, and Malaysia, India, Burma, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka

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Asia the Beautiful Cookbook: Authentic Recipes From Japan, Korea, China, the Phillipines, Thailand, Laos, and Kampuchea, Vietnam, Singapore, and Malaysia, India, Burma, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka

Manufacturer: Stonehenge
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0867066253

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Beautifully illustrated over-size cookbook with numerous color photographs of dishes and the countries of their origin.

Food of Indonesia Authentic Recipes From (Periplus World Cookbooks)

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Excellent, but more recipes less introduction.

Food of Indonesia Authentic Recipes From (Periplus World Cookbooks)
Heinz Von Holzen , Lother Arsana , and Wendy Hutton
Manufacturer: Crossing Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Baking | Cooking, Food & Wine | Subjects | Books

General | Cooking, Food & Wine | Subjects | Books

ASIN: 0895947730

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Excellent, but more recipes less introduction........2003-03-30

I started with the Food of Asia, which I think is excellent. I decided to check into some specific cuisines, such as Indonesia, of the seven cuisines that are presented in the Food of Asia. I am a little torn.

The individual books in the "Food of" series by Periplus have extensive introductions. There are not as many recipes as I had hoped for. The ingredients list, along with the accompanying commentaries, are about the same, with an equivalent number of photos, as the Food of Asia. The Food of Asia contains many of the recipes, however, some do not have a photo.

The variety of main ingredients is pretty good, with recipes such as: Tempeh Stew, Hot Spicy Fried Tempeh, Water Spinach with Spicy Sauce, Vegetables with Spicy Coconut, Fern Tips (or Asparagus) in Coconut Milk, Stewed Eggplant, Lobster in Yellow Sauce, Simmered River Fish, Spicy Fried Sardines, Eggs in Fragrant Sauce and Pandan-style Eggs, plenty of chicken recipes, Duck Curry, several satays, Ginger Pork, Porked Cooked with Tomatoes and Seasoned Fried Beef Slices.

However, the Food of Asia contains some recipes, such as Balinese Squid, that do not appear in the Food of Indonesia. Also, the substitute of asparagus for fern tips is found only in the Food of Asia.

The ingredients list is thourough, with substitutions for (or omission of) many hard-to-find ingredients, but is a little more stringent than other books I have read. For example, shallot or onion was offered as a substitute for asofoetida in a different book, whereas here no substitute is given. On the contrary, macadamia nuts are suggested as a substitute, or even almonds or cashews, for candlenuts. The books on separate cuisines do not have such substitutions.

A word of caution, many of the ingredients are difficult to find even online. There are also several "fresh" ingredients, such as kaffir lime leaves, salam leaves, duan kasum, etc, that have to be shipped fresh and stay for only a short while. Most of the recipes in Food of Indonesia require many of the hard-to-find ingredients. Other cuisines, like Thai and India, have more availability of authentic ingredients as well as spice mixes that really help save time.

I think that the Food of Asia may be a better starting point. Make sure that you can find the hard-to-find ingredients from some Indonesian store or many of the recipes will be lacking. I have been able to make most of the recipes that I was really interested in, such as the tempeh, sardines and asparagus, but with a bit of difficulty coming up with all the ingredients.

Hope this helps.

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Best book for beginning asian cooking...

Yum Yum Yum

This book is awesome!

picture of spicy satay

The Food of Asia: Authentic Recipes from China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam (Periplus World Cookbooks)

Manufacturer: Tuttle Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Cooking, Food & Wine | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 9625934529

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Best book for beginning asian cooking..........2003-02-12

This book is incredible. First, the photography is excellent, beautifully portraying most of the recipes. The book begins with a complete listing of all of the ingredients used. It is about 6 pages of pertinent information, including pictures for some of the most obscure ingredients. The recipes cover a thorough range of the basic recipes that you may be looking for. I am Indian and am thrilled with the list. Just about every recipe is critical, they appear back-to-back and have several pictures. I will probably cook every recipe in the Indian section. That section alone makes it worth the purchase. However, it covers seven other asian cuisines in a very similar manner. It also offers enticing "melting pot" menus, mixing the cuisines. You will get the recipes you want, that you can make, with a little commentary and exquisite pictures. This is one of the best cook books I have ever seen.

Yum Yum Yum.......2001-06-09

It is soo good !! I tried the eggs curry from Indonesia it is so yummy !! Also the have menu suggestions so that was real helpfull since I do a lot of parties !!!

This book is awesome!.......1999-05-11

All recipes are well described and illustrated. Everything is clear and easy to understand.

picture of spicy satay.......1999-04-29

Picture of Singapore's famous food example spicy satay,laksa,chicken rice...

Authentic Recipes from Indonesia (Authentic Recipes From...)

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Authentic Recipes from Indonesia (Authentic Recipes From...)
Heinz Von Holzen , and Lother Arsana
Manufacturer: Periplus Editions
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Cooking, Food & Wine | Subjects | Books

ASIN: 0794603203

Book Description

Authentic Recipes from Indonesia includes over 60 easy-to-follow recipes with detailed descriptions of ingredients and cooking methods, enabling the reader to reproduce the flavors of the Spice Islands at home.
Included in this unique collection are spicy Padang favorites from West Sumatra, healthy Javanese vegetable creations, succulent satay and poultry dishes from Bali and Lombok, and unusual recipes from Kalimantan and the eastern isles of Flores and Timor.

Taste of Asia/Authentic Recipes from Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Japan (Creative Cooking Library)

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Taste of Asia/Authentic Recipes from Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Japan (Creative Cooking Library)
Steven Wheeler
Manufacturer: Smithmark Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Classic Asian Cooking Course: Authentic Recipes from Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Japan

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Classic Asian Cooking Course: Authentic Recipes from Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Japan
Steven Wheeler
Manufacturer: Anness Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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good but can be improved

From Great to Mediocre

Cumbersome and overpriced

The Official Autograph Collector Price Guide, 4th Edition (Official Autograph Collector Price Guide)
Mark Allen Baker
Manufacturer: Odyssey Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Autographs | Antiques & Collectibles | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
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Autographs: Identification and Price Guide

The Celebrity Black Book: Over 55,000 Accurate Celebrity Addresses (Celebrity Black Book)

ASIN: 0966971094

Book Description

This book is quicly becoming the Bible of the industry, with over 60,000 values of world's top personalities from all fields.

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good but can be improved .......2007-05-12

It is good to have a reference, but it must be absolutely improved.
Items like how it is organized is a critical item.
Also it is mostly for US celebrities autographs, but if you are looking for non-US celebrities, you may be disappointed.

From Great to Mediocre.......2005-11-12

The author is a member of the respected Universal Autograph Collectors Club, which is a non-profit organization comprised of autograph collectors founded in 1965. The UACC gave high marks to this book, which is why I gave it a try.

The author does an excellent job of providing an overview of the various markets (historical figures, presidents, celebs, etc.) and gives some solid insight into collecting and what to look for. It's obvious he knows his stuff.

I'll have to agree with the first reviewer, though, in that the book is not easy to navigate. There's no comprehensive alphabetical listing of the people named in the book, so you'll have to hunt for what you're looking for, assuming what you're looking for is listed somewhere.

Most annoying are the abbreviations used. I'm a long-time collector, but I found myself desperately searching for the meanings of several of the abbreviations used - and they were not easy to find. A brief table at the beginning of each chapter defining these abbreviations would be fine, or just spell them out in smaller print on each page. Not difficult.

The ads in the book didn't bother me as it's a reference book, not a novel you'd sit down and read cover to cover. But what did bother me was the many typos and misspellings throughout (i.e Marrtin instead of Martin). This could have easily been avoided by having someone proofread the final draft. Easy!

To Mr. Baker's credit, it is obvious he did exhaustive research for this book, and a lot of the information he shares is interesting and informative. I hope when it's time for the fifth edition that he seriously considers adding an alphabetical index and double-checking the text for misspellings. And although the author clearly states that each list is not meant to be complete (just representative, which is fair), I'd still like to see more entries in the more popular categories, such as celebrities and music.

Cumbersome and overpriced.......2005-08-12

Nice introductory materials, including market perspectives and a market analysis, and loaded with names of the famous and not-so-famous.

Because of the layout of the chapters, however, you might have some difficulty locating a particular person in your search for an autograph value. For example, in which chapter would you hunt for Howard Hughes? Aviation? Business Leaders, Economists, Financiers, and Publishers? Newsmakers? Then again, why would I want to hunt? A purely alphabetical listing would prevent quite a few headaches, or an index would end my misery altogether.

Or would it? Because unless you live and breath the autograph world, the abbreviations in this book will befuddle you. The abbreviations and what they mean should be printed on each page, even if in very small print, because locating the abbreviation keys (different in each chapter, it seems) is an exercise in utter madness.

Finally, with all the advertising in this book--yes, advertising, starting with a full-page ad on the inside-front cover!--it should be priced like a large magazine at maybe $5.95 or so. The $24.95 cover price seems hard to justify with so many ads--including ads interspersed throughout the book, 24 consecutive pages at the back, and one big ad that dominates the back cover! It's a book-a-zine!

I'll give Baker's book two stars out of five for its comprehensive coverage of the autograph field, but not more. I'm still trying to locate a few signatures, but with no index, I'm getting tired of hunting.

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Winsome gardens filled with gentle blossoms, babbling brooks, and latticed gazebos promise refreshment of spirit. Quotations from favorite authors such as Jane Austen and John Donne further entice readers to venture beyond the garden gate.

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Beautiful.......2006-03-10

Enjoy the tranquil artwork of Thomas Kinkaid, coupled with soothing verse about the wonders of the garden from the likes of Helen Keller, Jane Eyre and others, in BEYOND THE GARDEN GATE. This smallish coffee table book will be thoroughly enjoyed by all who open it.

Calmness on paper.......2000-08-11

This book, as will all of Thomas Kinkade's work features homes and neighborhoods in small towns. Some feature the same home, and how it looks throughout the year as the seasons change.

I find Kinkade's work to have a calming effect on me. As I turn the pages and look at the beauty of the painting from the broadest viewpoint to the smallest detail; I find something new and wonderful each and everytime.

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wonderful

Beyond the Garden Gate: The Life of Celia Laighton Thaxter
Norma H. Mandel
Manufacturer: UPNE
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1584652977

Book Description

Celia Laighton Thaxter was an author, painter, gardener, and one of the most popular New England poets of the late nineteenth century. Her nonfiction works, An Island Garden and Among the Isles of Shoals, continue to engage readers; "her prose," Smithsonian Magazine has said, "has a timeless quality that makes delightful reading today."

Much of Thaxter's writing was inspired by the Isles of Shoals, an isolated cluster of islands off the coast of New Hampshire, where she was raised and spent much of her life. As a result, she is often thought to have lived a circumscribed existence, but as Norma Mandel demonstrates in this new biography, Thaxter was an active participant in Boston's vibrant cultural life. Her close friends included Sarah Orne Jewett, John Greenleaf Whittier, and James and Annie Fields, and she moved in a literary circle that included such figures as Hawthorne, Emerson, Longfellow, and Holmes. Thaxter was also the hostess of a vibrant summer salon on Appledore Island where artists Childe Hassam and William Morris Hunt and musicians Julius Eichberg and William Mason were among the frequent visitors.

Drawing on previously unexamined letters and family papers as well as Thaxter's own writings and other sources, Mandel not only reveals new details about the author's life but also places her in a broader literary and cultural context. From Thaxter's isolated childhood and early marriage, to her embrace of the Aesthetic Movement and her fascination with spiritualism, to her lifelong struggle to secure a steady income and care for a disabled child, Mandel offers the most comprehensive biography yet written about a writer whose books about the natural world continue to resonate.

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wonderful.......2004-10-19

I was so impressed with the content and detail of this biography. It was wonderfully written and a great read. I reccomend it for anyone interested in Celia and/or her friends.

Far Beyond the Garden Gate: Alexandra David-Neel's Journey to Lhasa

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great story of alexandra david neel's journey to lhasa
Meet Alexandra David-Neel.....

Far Beyond the Garden Gate: Alexandra David-Neel's Journey to Lhasa
Don Brown
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Ages 4-8 | Children's Books | Subjects | Books

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ASIN: 0618083642

Book Description

In her time, Alexandra David-Neel was the most famous woman in France. She had traveled extensively in China and Tibet and, in 1924, was the first Western woman ever to enter Tibet's forbidden capital, Lhasa. Alexandra was a self-taught Buddhist scholar and spoke Tibetan flawlessly. And she did it all as a mature womanshe was in her mid-fifties when she arrived in Lhasa. Not only is Alexandra David-Neel's story one of high adventure, of trekking through snow-choked mountain passes and wild encounters on the Tibetan tablelands, but it is also about a prolific writer and passionate advocate of Tibetan culture. Far Beyond the Garden Gate reveals an unforgettable life's journey with vibrant, graceful prose and stunning illustrations.

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great story of alexandra david neel's journey to lhasa.......2003-03-30

while giving a slide lecture at the great neck public library on our biography THE SECRET LIVES OF ALEXANDRA DAVID NEEL I was handed you excellent children's book. You distilled just the right information with lovely pictures to show how fabulous her journey was.Our biography deals with her life and includes her journey which was amazing considering the Lhasa was so forbiddena at that time. CONGRATULATIONS1

Meet Alexandra David-Neel............2003-02-24

From early childhood, Alexandra David-Neel dreamed of traveling and exploring faraway places. "I craved to go beyond the garden gate, to follow the road that passed it by, and set out for the unknown," she later recalled. "I dreamed of wild hills, immense deserted steppes, and impassable landscapes of glaciers!" As a child, she traveled away from her ordinary life through books and museums, discovering a passion for Buddhism and Asian culture. Her talent as a singer, sent her to India, Greece, and North Africa to perform with opera companies, but that didn't satisfy her wanderlust. Finally in 1911 at the age of forty-three, she left her husband and home in Tunis, North Africa to begin the journey of her dreams. She would travel to the sacred and secretive city of Lhasa, the Forbidden City in Tibet. "Many travelers had been stopped on their way to Lhasa, and had accepted failure. I would not... I would reach Lhasa and show what the will of a woman could achieve!" Using his trademark eloquent prose and artwork, along with some of Alexandra David-Neel's own words, Don Brown weaves a clever and fascinating story in his latest picture book biography, Far Beyond The Garden Gate. Mr Brown's engaging text is filled with imagery, magic, history, mystery, and intriguing facts and details, and complemented by evocative illustrations in soft, dreamy hues. Together word and art transports the reader to Tibet for the arduous adventure of a lifetime. With an Author's Note to augment the story and further enlighten, Far Beyond The Garden Gate is a marvelous introduction to both an amazing woman and little known country that will whet the appetite of kids 8-12, and send them out looking for more.

Beyond the Garden Gate (Northwest Reprints)

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Beyond the Garden Gate (Northwest Reprints)
Sophus Keith Winther
Manufacturer: Oregon State University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Historical | Genre Fiction | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books

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Beyond the Garden Gate

Manufacturer: Darrow Production Co.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000CCZ1AA

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Decorative / tole painting pattern book.

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Beyond the Garden Gate
Somers, Grover Thomas
Manufacturer: The House of Dietz
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000ME83TE

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Beyond the Garden Gate
Sophus Keith Winter
Manufacturer: The Macmillan Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UBYFOQ

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Beyond the garden gate
Grover Thomas Somers
Manufacturer: House of Dietz
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Binding: Unknown Binding

MORTGAGE YOUR HEART (BY THE AUTHOR OF TAKE ALL TO NEBRASKA AND BEYOND THE GARDEN GATE)

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MORTGAGE YOUR HEART (BY THE AUTHOR OF TAKE ALL TO NEBRASKA AND BEYOND THE GARDEN GATE)
Sophus Keith Winther
Manufacturer: MacMillan
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Binding: Hardcover
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My Prescription for Anti-Depressive Living by Jonathan Adler

I love this book!!!

This book was better than dessert.....

very clever and entertaining!

Channeling Mrs. Goldstein

My Prescription for Anti-Depressive Living
Jonathan Adler
Manufacturer: Collins Design
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0060820535
Release Date: 2005-11-08

Book Description

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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My Prescription for Anti-Depressive Living by Jonathan Adler .......2007-03-12

After we have got this book. It's very helpful to us. It have a lot of idea that push your power idea. If you love some idea that very fun and young. Please think of this book.

I love this book!!!.......2007-01-08

I've been collecting many interior-decorating books in the past several years, and this was the last one I bought for my collection.

In short what is different about this book is that the message of the author is not "how to create a good looking space" but one about "how to create a space that f-e-e-l-s good."

Personally, I live with a huge load of STUFF - and this book in nowhere describes how to solve the problem of "storing stuff".

But the book title lives up to its promise - "My Prescription for Anti-Descriptive Living" and I am a satisfied customer.

The added bonus is the generous inclusion of his personal history - I think it is very brave and courageous to share so much of personal stuff here. He shares about his experience at school as a ceramic art student, and how his teacher discouraged him, and how he finally overcame this discouragement, and became a ceramic artist ANYWAY and that his business is doing well. Dunno. I think what I'm trying to say is how much I love the "attitude" that is obvious and contagious from the book.

I think the photograhed interiors are highly eclectic and whimsical, full of humour, wit, and charm.

But do be aware, this is not a book on "pragmatics of interior decorating".

This book was better than dessert............2006-08-23

Love, love, love this book! I finally feel I have the green light to decorate in the style I've always wanted. I was slightly afraid to put certain pieces out for show, but at the same time I didn't want to stash them in the closet. Everything has been set free and now I can breathe. Thank you Jonathan for your amazing talent, your fearless decorating style, and your oh, so hilarious advice on life.

very clever and entertaining!.......2006-03-26

This is a fun, entertaining read. Great pictures and stories and awesome ideas!!!

Channeling Mrs. Goldstein.......2006-03-15

So while I was sitting on the couch yesterday, sick as a dog, I noticed my partner's new Jonathan Adler design book. The cover features Jonathan perched awkwardly on a couch, surrounded by his whimsical pottery and the typical Hollywood Regency-inspired design motifs one sees repeated in design magazines these days. Juxtaposed with his his super-cool pottery designs, the cover comes across as forced, tacky, and aimed at selling the maximum number of copies to the maximum number of people. Had I not been sick and had the book not been within arm's length, I never would have cracked it open.

Strangely enough, it turned out to be one of the more entertaining and inspirational things I have read in a very long time.

Jonathan begins his tome by stating: "This book is about how design can change your life." In the proceeding pages, Adler lays out his design philosophies in the wittiest manner imaginable, often using text and color alone to outline his anti-formal aesthetic. An example of this is the section titled My Prescription For Maximalist Merriment. Striking out boldly against the confines and conformity of minimalism, Tip #5 reads:

"Get rid of all your boring, tiresome friends. Make friends with cabaret stars, exotic dancers, and down-on-their-luck royality instead."

The book, in this way, deconstructs design as conformist modality and reconstructs it, Star Trek transporter beam style, in a totally different, purely subjective form altogether. Adler rages, in his whimsical and wacky way, against the the urge to create cold spaces defined by exterior influences. He instead asks, nay begs, the designer-to-be to recharge one's inactive design batteries by channelling the phantasmagorical landscape of the child's mind. His recollection of a Mrs. Goldstein is a fine example of this:

"The Goldsteins were my next-door neighbors and best friends growing up in suburban New Jersey, and their house was the ne plus ultra of fabulous modern decorating. I have always been completely obsessed with Mrs. Goldstein's style. Often, when I am making something groovy, I think to myself: "How would this look chez Goldstein?" Allow me to describe chez Goldstein.

In the foyer was a giant Murano light fixture hanging over a pop-art painting of a gorilla. The kitchen walls were decoupaged (by Mrs. G herself) in New Yorker magazine covers. The den had a George Nelson sectional sofa upholstered in bright red, which was surrounded with African art, groovy C. Jere wall sculptures, and a Knoll coffee table supporting a giant sculpture of a hippopotamus. The living room was heaven. In one corner was a black lacquered piano with a ceramic leopard under it sitting on a white flokati rug. The coffee table was mirrored, the sofa-back table was covered in snakeskin, and on a shelf there was a ceramic piece of cake.

It was all put together with a sense of panache and confidence that I strive to equal to this day. Nothing was chosen to blend in -- everything took center stage. Basically, the lesson I learned from Mrs. Goldstein was to be graphic, bold, and confident, and to put things in your home that make you happy. As born-again Christians ask themselves when confronted with a dilemma, "What would Jesus do?" so I ask myself, "What would Mrs. Goldstein do?"

Sick as I was, the Adler book managed to get me off the couch. Soon I found myself moving large pieces of furniture in the den, rearranging sections of the house entirely. I sweated profusely and felt overwhelming nausea all the while, but possessed by the unstoppable spirit of Mrs. Goldstein I spent the late afternoon completely altering the look and feel of the den by reintroducing pictures and baubles that have long laid dormant in various closets and chests: a raised relief tile featuring a playful giraffe family, a blockprint which I call the Frowning Madonna (her frown caused by a mistake during the blockprint process), a chess set made of basalt that I bought in Iceland, a quizzical looking family of stone heads in the shape of mushrooms... I brought them all out into the light, reintroducing them unabashedly to society again.

Once the room redesign was complete, I immediately felt as if a burden had been lifted from shoulders. For ages I had been wanting to display these things but as the house interior has become more formal in appearance over time, one by one these items have been stashed away. Without knowing it, my sense of fun and humor were being tucked away into dark corners were they became increasingly difficult to recover and recapture. Well, no more. The genie is out of the bottle again and I simply can't wait for the weekend when I can spelunk through all the local thrift stores and second hand shops again.

The Jonathan Adler Book: My Prescription For Anti-depressive Living

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The Jonathan Adler Book: My Prescription For Anti-depressive Living
Jonathan Adler
Manufacturer: Regan Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000N7GMX4

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My Prescription for Anti-depressive Living
Jonathan Adler
Manufacturer: Regan Books
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OEYG48

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