Modern Retro Home

Modern Retro Home by Mr. Jason Grant, photography by Lauren Bamford, 255 pages

Interior decorator Jason Grant (who includes the "Mr." on the cover, title page, and "about the author" page) presents a coffee-table book filled with rooms decorated with plenty of mid-century flair. Each page offers Grant's takeaways on the room presented, though after a while I found these one- to two-sentence opinions more annoying than enlightening. What shines in this book is Bamford's beautiful photography and the rooms, which Grant explains are the homes of his creative friends. (That said, I know some staging was going on, if only because there is no way someone would decorate a kid's room with a cactus and an antique horse toy instead of stuffed animals.) I found plenty of inspiration for my own mid-century home, though I hope you'll forgive me for my assumption that macrame = cat toy.