“Decorating was like the Olympics in our house.
A massive event that seemed to hit every four years, each time with more ambitious feats to achieve, more technical difficulty to demonstrate, and new, more complicated events to learn”.
John Grindrod grew up in a housing estate called New Addington, Croydon.
He is the author of Concretopia (Old Street Publishing), Outskirts (Hodder & Stoughton), How to Love Brutalism (Batsford)and Iconicon (Faber & Faber) His work reflects the strange jumble of urban, suburban and rural found on my doorstep.
Using his home town as a starting point these books have been a way to try to understand how and why our modern towns and cities look the way they do. Each book has been a journey to teach himself – and, he hopes, his readers – something new.
The Paint Job. 28 pages, A5, Staple Bound
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