Hammershøi

Among the gifts given out at my Christmas this year, was this book, on the painter Vilhelm Hammershøi, who I'd never heard of. He was a Danish painter who worked around the turn of the century. He repeatedly painted his Copenhagen home and the pictures, in gorgeous shades of grey, would look right at home in a contemporary interiors magazine. (There are also some lovely, empty streetscapes of London.) Well worth checking out.