London Calling.

Earlier in the week, I promised a look at the other great design book I purchased, this one from a place more dear to my heart, Fort Mason's Book Bay. The Book Bay is a wonderful second hand book shop run by Friends of the San Francisco Library, right on the water in Fort Mason. It's not only really cozy with friendly staff, and nice little reading corners, it's filled with a really well organized range of used books in good condition, and they have a great collection of ephemera, as well.

Among their collections, I discovered a book published in 2000 by Angelika Taschen called London Interiors. A big fat, juicy book full of beautiful photographs of London interiors, in fact it's part of Taschen's Jumbo Series. This is another fantastic, or perhaps I should say brilliant, book to add to your design library full of photos of 40 different and highly eclectic, posh and sometimes flamboyant UK residences. I notice that often the interiors are quite brightly colored, and wondered if that might be in direct counterpoint to London's fog and sometimes gray weather. This fab coffee table book can be a bit tricky to find, so I've linked to a few different sites where I've found the book online. London Interiors, yeah baby.