Top Los Angeles Interior Designer’s Book Review
A point of view or perspective carries a potential of great power. Convictions attached to and supported by one’s point of view can drive decisions and shape the unknown. A ripple achieved by one stone and still water reaches far. Shifts in reality so subtle as to be missed in the moment carry implications and time is their caretaker.
As a constant companion, they inevitably disclose their truth. Lives are touched, grazed, nudged and bruised. Lives spin, real, weave and stumble. They attempt to right themselves and take the first steps in their newly shaped experience.
For the opening scene alone I recommend to you a book published in Germany in 1985 with an English translation the following year. Written by Patrick Suskind and translated by John E. Woods the book is titled Perfume.
The story has little to do with our typical subject matter. The book, however, offers a description of life in 18th Century France, which I have carried with me since I first heard the words of the opening scene read aloud to me at a dinner party 10 years ago.
My point of view changed substantially as the meaning of these words struck home. Like a paintbrush vanquishing an outdated, unrealistic scene, Suskind’s descriptions of the day-to-day realities of 18th Century France painted a crisp and precise new view. This view is the unrelenting backdrop for a gripping tale that will leave you breathless. Find the book and see what I mean.
