When I think about owning a flat, I dream about the colour I’ll paint the walls. Dark green, or deep blue, I’ll put an orange or maybe it’ll be a green corduroy sofa in the corner. I tell myself my eyes like the calm of dark colours. Someone I don’t know posts the development of their house renovation online. They show off the dark colours they’ve chosen to edge their door frames and I think – bold choice.
Following her debut, Steal As Much as You Can: How to Win the Culture Wars in an Age of Austerity, published three years ago, Nathalie Olah's second book investigates the importance we place on taste and the impact it has on our identities and how that in turn, informs our politics.
