Kabinett & Kammer: Creating Authentic Interiors

“In this book, Sean Scherer shows us all how to create unique sanctuaries for ourselves.... Imaginative spaces that are authentic and honest, designed to be lived in and loved." ? Anderson Cooper (from his foreword)

"The book is a keeper. A must have on my list." - Robert Rufino, Style Director of House Beautiful

Kabinett & Kammer is equally a celebration and a practical guide to both collecting and showing how lively design can integrate disparate objects from the past into beautifully layered ensembles. Sean Scherer’s interiors feature vintage display cabinets housing discarded collections of whittled songbirds, a plethora of stunning 19th-century maps and school teaching aids, semi-tropical ferns in cast-iron planters, mysterious industrial apparatuses displayed against eye-catching colours, and photomurals. The effect is a supercharged nod to American Gothic heightened by Scherer’s sophisticated palette and sense of proportion. His interior language speaks with a calm authority coupled with a zest for life. Each photograph by master photographer William Abranowicz is a lesson on such topics as colour and texture, focal points and room size. The book has universal appeal because, though styles fluctuate and tastes are unique, the principles of design are immutable and good design is good design – invaluable lessons for composing a signature, comfortable interior.

"Sean Scherer's Kabinett & Kammer: Creating Authentic Interiors offers a refreshingly vintage-inspired, unfussy and masculine take on interior design. . . . You'll want to add this to your library immediately."-- "Airows"

"If you love vintage, Kabinett & Kammer offers inspiration (and looks good on the coffee table to boot)."-- "Country Living"

"Sean Scherer curates a beguiling assemblage. . . Expect anything from visual teaching aids to scientific ephemera."-- "Veranda"

"The Kabinett & Kammer store is a lesson in rarities. Think vintage taxidermy, old school botanical prints, 19th century furniture, specimen shells and science class models. Expect to find just as many objets d'art scattered across the pages of Scherer's book, as well as a newfound desire to go antiquing."-- "Modern Luxury"

"The book is a keeper. A must have on my list."--Robert Rufino "Style Director of House Beautiful"

"In this book, Sean Scherer shows us all how to create unique sanctuaries for ourselves. . . Imaginative spaces that are authentic and honest, designed to be lived in and loved."--Anderson Cooper