What We Keep: Advice from Artists and Designers on Living with the Things You Love

In What We Keep: Advice from Artists and Designers on Living with the Things You Love, gallerist Jean Lin presents an interior design book for collectors, would-be collectors, and design-loving hunter/gatherers who crave objects of beauty to display in their homes.

Foreword by Asad Syrkett, editor-in-chief of Elle Decor

Learn the refined art of display and get an insider’s education in collecting from gallerist Jean Lin. Follow in her footsteps and tour the unique and beautiful homes of more than a dozen dedicated collectors.

Whether you’re starting a new collection or wish to display an existing one, each chapter offers inventive ideas for styling and displaying favorite objects, along with a primer on materials, studio visits with ceramicists, textile artists, and woodworkers, and wisdom from some of today’s most fascinating artists and makers.

Featured artists include:
Mira Nakashima
Aleishall Girard Maxon
Noguchi Museum Director Brett Littman
AD 100 and Elle Decor A Listers: Christine Gachot, Leyden Lewis, Michael K Chen, Workstead, and Ghislaine Vinas
TWA Hotel designer Adam Rolston/INC
Architect Preeti Sriratana/Modellus Novus
Fashion designer Carly Cushnie
Glass artist and winner of Netflix Blown Away, Deborah Czeresko
Architect Worrell Yeung
Ceramicist Stephanie Shih
Top Chef and James Beard Award-winner Kwame Onwuache

Includes Color Photographs

Jean Lin is the founder and curator of Colony, a community of independent furniture, lighting, textile, and object designers coming together to celebrate American design with an international audience. Instagram: @colonydesign. Web: goodcolony.com and jeanlin.com