That being said the story is gripping and heart rending and it is, overall, a great read. The reader needs to ignore the modern day 'cliches' and much dialogue that does not belong in 1942.
The book suffers a little from rather immature writing in many places. On an emotional level this is a book that pulls at the heart, exposes the heinous acts that occurred without mercy as well as the acts of pure bravery displayed by many others. Until the offer of a vast amount of money to design a unique and brilliant hiding place for those desperate to escape certain death if captured, begins a journey for him where the inner discovery of his humanity surfaces when one of the hiding places is discovered. German occupied Paris 1942 - Lucien Bernard, a talented young Architect, who, like so many non-Jews in France at that time, were unmoved and unsympathetic at the treatment and murder of Jews, which they witnessed whilst walking through the streets of Paris, almost on a daily basis. Today, though, I like to live in spaces that are a mélange of the sophisticated and the bohemian.Compelling Read - Writing a little Cliche I launched my career in the 1980s when the ‘total look’ dominated. I have little desire to lock myself into a style or in an era. “I find it interesting to mix objects and tell a story. So when a wealthy industrialist offers him a large sum of money to devise secret hiding places for Jews, Lucien struggles with the choice of risking his life for a cause he doesnt really believe in. Radical Italian design, and the maestros Ettore Sottsass, Carlo Scarpa, Andrea Branzi, Alessandro Mendini, and Carlo Mollino, occupy pride of place in this Paris apartment positions that are ever evolving as the architect likes to try new combinations and push the line-without ever letting the space feel frozen. Like most gentiles in Nazi-occupied Paris, architect Lucien Bernard has little empathy for the Jews. A well-rounded aesthete, he knows how to tell the story behind objects and stage them within a space.
“I find that the very colorful Sottsass ceramics fit quite well in this ambience.” Growing up in a family of collectors, Zana inherited a strong penchant for vintage design and for creating bold associations. It’s a blank page that invites dashes of color. “I believe many architects like living in spaces full of history that precedes them and goes a little beyond them.” Here, the preference was to opt for a monochrome look with curtains and white walls to accomplish a form of serenity.
Sometimes, spaces that have been modified can still give off the impression of having been there forever, the operative idea being to subtly blend them into, while showing great respect for, an existing setting.
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