INHABIT. THERE WERE SIX ISSUES OVER SIX MONTHS ACROSS 1973 AND 1974. AND THEN NO MORE. HALF A

YEAR WHEN BRITAIN WAS COOLER INSIDE THAN OUT.

WE CAN DO MUCH BETTER THAN THIS - ONE COMPLETE AND COMPLETELY PERFECT SET OF INTERIOR AMAZINES. 

The first issue. Looks kinda IKEA catalog normcore to you? Check the sneakers in the recessed cube bottom right for some hint of how fabulous this magazine was from the first to the last issue. And that bed is on chains (obviously). 

This from the sixth issue. Inside designer Andrew Logan's apartment. A Tim Street-Porter photostory titled Shoot-Out At The Fantasy Factory. 
 

More of the mayhem from Andrew Logan's interior life. The Stables at Camden Market used to look like this - just Logan had more stuff. 
 

BUDGET IDEAS. Space saving solutions illustrated with a woman tied to a chair (left page) and with a dagger through her back (right). Illustrated by John Ireland. Why? We don't know. That's the past for you. Hard to explain. 
 

Wow. That dog in the dog basket. And then, we guess, the rest of it. The Coca-Cola Tiffany lamp is an all time improvisd adhoc design classic. 
 

The Who? John Entwistle (the bassist) creating Elizabethan in Ealing. Other countries - we are thinking Italy and Casabella - were truly avant-garde / experimental. In Britain, just straight up rock star nuts. Crazy-paving may have originated in Rome but it found a home in London garden suburbs. 

We want those sneakers! A wonderful feature of all six inhabit issues are these upright portrait pics of people in their homes. Easily a book in itself. This the Sackville Street tailor Tom Gilbey in the basement flat. Turned out all-white. 
 

If this is wired up inside the scaffolding bed poles then all credit to them. Otherwise, good luck with a record deck and cordless landline telephone in 1973. 
 

Designer Alice Pollock and a very, very nice table. Esoteric Austerity is the title. The UK introduced a three-day week in December 1973 as a result of a miners strike. That's why her Warhol Marilyn is so small (actually the Tate Gallery catalogue from 1971). 

The cover of the final issue. Andrew Logan's Loony Lifestyle (reads more like a headline from The Sun) and a note about Recycling! Way ahead of its time this magazine. We would be pretty sure that these six issues, issued over just six months, represent the very best ever period British interior design. World class this magazine.

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