(What is) Home?

Carl Johanson

“Home is the nicest word there is.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder, the author of Little House on the Prairie.
Carl Johanson’s new book is an exploration of just that: Home. What is it? Can it be built? Is it architecture? What kinds of homes are there? What do you need to create a home?
As in Carl’s previous books, the angle is zany and humorous, but the subject is taken on with warmth and tenderness. The book contains homes in all shapes and forms: whimsical houses as well as primitive dwellings and mid-century classics. All populated by Carl’s lovely characters.

“What’s that- a home? asks author and illustrator Carl Johansson with soft existentialism. //…// A shoe- perhaps that’s a home? But for who, and how to make it so? Can we live under ground or in the ocean? And how can we live together? What is mostly important, at the end? That the place is light? Well protected? What do we need? What do we really need? Carl asks, and leaves it up to us to answer.” – Le Monde

 

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