Louise Benson & Lorena Lohr, 2019
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Dimensions: A4
Dimensions: A4
Scenic Views is an interiors magazine that focuses on the everyday, the overlooked and the forgotten.
There are many ways that people tell stories through their surroundings. The bars, cafes, hotels, transit centres and other public spaces that make a city are rarely remembered once they are gone—not to mention the private rooms, apartments and houses that are endlessly built and demolished.
These places have become invisible to the mainstream, but they’re out there on the streets and alive with activity. They are both mysterious and seemingly banal.
From filing papers in a cabinet to drinking Blue Hawaiians in an exotic themed lounge, each and every detail reveals something about the people who pass through them. This is where personal idiosyncrasies are expressed, and even the subtlest of decorations make all the difference.
Together, they create a feeling that is difficult to define. It is a feeling of honesty and imagination, of past and present, of friends and strangers.
Scenic Views is a celebration of that feeling, and of the people and places behind it.
Issue 1
Featuring an interview with architectural photographer Arnold Kramer on his little-known 1978 photo series of home interiors; a portfolio of paintings by the iconic but often maligned British artist Beryl Cook; photographs of cafes by Lorena Lohr; anonymous images of hotels from around the world; and a personal essay by Louise Benson on the objects left out in windows, accompanied by a photograph by Ciaran Og Arnold.
Created by Louise Benson & Lorena Lohr
Designed by Michael Nash Associates
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Scenic Views: Issue 1: A Journal of Overlooked Interiors
£ 10.00
