Brooklyn Modern in a Book

In a sign of just how ridiculously busy we’ve been juggling the flea market launch and our blogging duties, we’ve somehow managed to neglect giving a shout-out to a fantastic new book by Diana Lind called Brooklyn Modern. (This omission is all the unforgivable given the fact that we have a frigging essay in the book, as does Grace Bonney of Design*Sponge.) Bottom line: Buy it. (Or at least go park yourself in a chair at Barnes & Noble and read it.) What we love about the book, which covers 18 homes in Broooklyn, is the the resourcefulness and creativity it reveals. In addition to the ground-up modern homes featured in the book, there are a number of older buildings revealed in their modern reinterpretations that we find particularly interesting. (There’s also some incredible photography by Yoko Inoue.) Diana is also taking part in a multi-day Q&A on the Times’ City Room Blog. Here’s a short clip: “No, I don’t think that these pseudo-Modern buildings [going up in Williamsburg] will be looked at with the same admiration that we reserve for brownstones. Very few large condominiums built in New York in the past half-century have been revered; I don’t see much of the work in Brooklyn as any exception.” Word.