Coming Home: Modern Rustic: Creative Living in Dutch Interiors

About this book

A celebration of the innovative artisanal and sustainable living exemplified by contemporary Dutch interiors. With a carefully curated collection of interiors including historic canal houses restored farms and green homes belonging to interior designers product designers architects and artists this book showcases creative and resourceful living. These properties have been created or renovated and brought into the twenty-first century with typical Dutch style and sensibilityenvironmentally friendly imaginative uses of space filled with color and charm and never to be taken too seriously. Each home in the book reflects the personality and spirit of the people who inhabit it. From furniture designer Valentin Loellmans handcrafted interiors in a traditional workers cottage on the Maas river to fiber artist Claudy Jongstras farmhouse in Friesland where indigo dye plants grow in the biodynamic garden Coming Home illustrates fun ideas and easy ways to incorporate individual style into your surroundings. Whether its the traditional lowlands aesthetic of combining old and new faded and inviting into a casual chic or a quirky reinvention of a space that reveals a touch of eccentricity this book illustrates why the Netherlands is truly loved by so many and can be an inspiration to us all.