Kinfolk Home

Welcome readers into 35 homes around the world that reflect some of the key principles of slow living: cultivating community, simplifying our lives, and reclaiming time for what matters most. With 289 full-color photographs spanning 368 pages, The Kinfolk Home is a detailed exploration of living spaces from the United States, Scandinavia, Asia, and more. Through a mix of portrait and interior photography, profiles, and essays, we visit the homes of designers, entrepreneurs, architects, photographers, and stylists. Delving deeper than decor, author Nathan Williams invites each resident to share their values, the ways those ideals have shaped their homes, and the ways their homes have in turn shaped them. At the heart of each living space is an aesthetic shaped by the dweller's idea of what is essential—whether it's a collection of inherited French antiques, a table long enough for a dinner party of a dozen, a smattering of children's sketches pasted on the walls, or minimalist rooms reserved for creative thought. What each of these homes shares in common is that they have been put together carefully, slowly, and with intention