We are thrilled to announce that our author, the legendary jazz musician and memoirist Coco Schumann, has won the prestigious Ehrenpreise, a lifetime achievement award from the German Record Critics Award Association.
Escape Home has received a Book Award Honorable Mention at the International Skiing History Association’s 22nd Annual Skiing History Week, held in Steamboat Springs, Colorado – April 8-12, 2015. Though… Read more Honorable Mention to Escape Home at ISHA Book Award →
“Escape Home is the memoir of Charles Paterson (born Karl Schanzer), Aspen architectural designer and owner of the famous Boomerang Lodge…. Even the book’s considerable length is barely able to cover the astonishing life of its author….”
March 8, 2014. Design scholar Christopher Long lectures on Paul T. Frankl, his extraordinary life and his contributions to the formation of American Modernism, with stunning visual examples of Frankl’s furniture and interior design work.
Book Review for Paul T. Frankl Autobiography Read This Article “This is a page turner! Anyone who has read Christopher Long’s essential book Paul T. Frankl and Modern American Design (Yale,… Read more Paul T. Frankl Autobiography – Review by Chicago Art Deco Society Magazine →
The Exile Library at the Literaturhaus in Vienna welcomed DoppelHouse Press authors Charles Paterson and Carrie Paterson on June 4 to give a book presentation. Thanks to Ursula Seeber for organizing this heartwarming event, which was also a chance for many friends and relatives of the Patersons to meet each other. We are grateful Philipp Heinz caught these moments on camera for all of us.
“What is the measure of a life well lived?” asks Karina Wetherbee of the Summit Daily in an April 5 book review of Escape Home: Rebuilding a Life After the Anschluss. “Rare is the person who does not look back on a lifetime with some sense of marvel… Some people live lives so large they seem to pack many existences into their brief time on this planet. Longtime Aspen resident Charles Paterson is one such person.”
Earlier this year, our latest title Paul T. Frankl | Autobiography was selected as one of the five most beautiful books designed in Austria in 2013! (Die Schoensten Buecher Oesterreichs 2013)
We would like to take a moment to thank and congratulated our talented designer Peter Duniecki for his exceptional work on this compelling and beautiful book.