Punk Living

Punk House: Interiors in Anarchy is a new interiors book out by Abrams Image, and it’s certainly a foil to my usual interiors books (e.g., Michael S. Smith’s Elements of Style). The full-color images show the interiors and accessories (ragged furniture, pots and pans, walls covered with hand-scrawled messages) of the punk lifestyle. So if all the gilt, conservative, blue-and-white design has you feeling uninspired, take a look at the pages exemplifying inexpensive, communal, and anarchical punk-rock living. It certainly has a different beat. One that goes like this. “London calling…” [Photo: Abby Banks]