L.A. Modern

(Hardback)

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The birthplace of American modernism, Los Angeles is the epicenter for a new way of living for the last one hundred years, as manifested in its cutting-edge architecture and design. With roots in the innovative houses by Frank Lloyd Wright, Greene & Greene, and Rudolph Schindler in the early twentieth century, this constantly evolving city became a crucible of modern living. Inspired by the International Style, architects and designers in Los Angeles developed their own individual styles with a rare sensitivity to site, landscape, and human scale. This brand of modernism, blurring the boundaries of indoors and outdoors, has since been imitated from Seattle to Sydney. Acclaimed architecture and design photographer Tim Street-Porter captures the best Modernist architecture of Los Angeles, from the seminal Neutra houses to the idiosynchratic structures by Frank Gehry. With iconic buildings by Craig Ellwood, Pierre Koenig, John Lautner, Charles and Ray Eames, and Oscar Niemeyer, among others, L.A. Modern presents the full spectrum of Los Angeles modernism in gorgeous new color photography.

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"(Street-Porter) and (Ouroussoff) document some of the city's most drop-dead spreads, including those by Frank Gehry, John Launtner and Craig Ellwood." ~Angeleno Interiors

"Tim Street-Porter basks in LA Modern." ~Vanity Fair

Open this elegant book to almost any page and you might tempted to linger for a while.These residences may have been emblematic of a new American dream, but for their lucky inhabitants, they represent a chic and shimmering reality. ~Preservation Magazine

Tim Street-Porters L.A. Modern resembles a coffee-table book, but it isnt really; its a valentine to a city with which the photographer is madly, dizzyingly in love. ~Modernism Magazine

Each turn of the page in this oversize volume reveals a new cutting-edge design, enough to inspire any restless homeowner. ~American Style

Up the chic factor of your sitting room with the sublime look at the modern architectural marvels around our beautiful burg. ~Los Angeles Confidential

Author Bio

Tim Street-Porter is an award-winning photographer who shoots for various shelter magazines. He is the author of Freestyle, Casa Mexicana, The Los Angeles House, Hollywood Style, and Los Angeles. He lives and works in Los Angeles. Nicolai Ouroussoff is the architecture critic for The New York Times.