Featuring interiors created by people who shop in Colette in Paris, live on the Lower East Side in New York and travel to Tokyo; the domestic spaces are often DIY and strongly reflect pop culture. Filled with post-modern collectables, vintage junk finds, camouflage and graffiti, clothing and toy collections, contemporary art resting in bookshelves and crammed onto walls, these homes are an antidote to the sterility of minimalism. Looking at these interiors city by city, among the 30 homes featured in the book are those of the artist and designer Julie Verhoeven and Maharishi founder Hardy Blechmann in London, graffiti artist Fafi in Paris, artists Ryan McGinness and Wes Lang in New York, innovative creatives Jaybo and Lucio Auri in Berlin, Barcelona filmmaker Roger Gual and Tokyo's cult photographer Yasumusa Yonehara and artist Aya Takano. The spaces they inhabit and work in give a real image of today's avant garde

Francesca Gavin is a writer and editor based in London. She is currently Visual Arts Editor at 'Dazed & Confused' magazine. She has written features and reviews for publications including 'Another', 'Blueprint', 'i-D', 'Art Review', 'Contemporary', 'intersection', 'Marmelade', 'RA' magazine, 'The Sunday Times' and 'Wonderland'. She has written two books: 'Street Renegades: New Underground Art' (2007) and 'Hell Bound: New Gothic Art' (2008), both published by Laurence King