Velvet Rails 978-3-96704-249-8 With a carefully curated selection

With a carefully curated selection of evocative images

offering a carefully curated look at the people

this book celebrates the best hiking trails and details the best of British and Irish culture

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Mid-Century Now investigates why these objects hold such power today

Velvet Rails 978-3-96704-249-8 With a carefully curated selectionVelvet Rails explores the renewed appeal of long distance train journeys as slow, considered travel. Across carefully selected routes, the book looks at how design, comfort, service, and hospitality shape our experience of movement and time. Through photography and essays, trains are seen as moving rooms and cultural spacesplaces of attention, ritual, and atmosphere, where travel itself becomes the destination.