The Best of Nest: Celebrating the Extraordinary Interiors from Nest Magazine

Fashion designer Oldham (Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life) compiles stunning interiors from the defunct design magazine Nest in this lavish volume of reproduced pages from the magazine. Oldham pays tribute to the vision of Nest founder Joseph Holtzman, who wanted the publication to chronicle “the richest peoples’ homes, glorious palaces... alongside homes made from Coke crates and the cardboard sleeping boxes the Dutch government offered its homeless population.” Featured are Roy Lichtenstein’s Southampton, N.Y., studio; Cy Twombly’s Italian palazzo; Ikea showroom decorator Raymond Donahue’s over-the-top room dedicated to Farrah Fawcett, and John Waters’s Baltimore mansion. Beyond homes, Oldham highlights the Keith Haring–designed phallic-themed bathroom at New York City’s Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center and the Philadelphia Zoo’s primate reserve, which “blurs the boundaries between humans and animals.” Oldham also drifts into the macabre with the lethal injections chamber at the Stateville Correctional Facility in Joliet, Ill., and a Fifth Avenue apartment where a financier was murdered. The magazine pages’ short bursts of prose allow the architectural elements and oversized photos to shine. Anyone with a love for design will eagerly devour this stylish compilation. (Nov.)