SK’s father was Bernat Klein, a Yugoslav Jew who came to Britain after WW2 and became a successful textile designer – Chanel, Dior & Balenciaga were amongst his clients. He lived in a modernist house, full of light and colour, on the Scottish Borders. This is a moving, light-footed account of an adored but difficult parent, and of the ties to a childhood home
The See-Through House: My Father in Full Colour
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£16.99
Edition:Hardback978178474310923/04/2020
Categories: 02. Summer Books 2020: Biography, Biography, Letters & Diaries, Summer Books 2020
Tags: 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Architecture: residential and domestic buildings, Coping with death and bereavement, Individual architects and architectural firms, Local and family history, nostalgia, Lowland Scotland and Borders, Memoir, Memoirs
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