L. A. Modern
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...
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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.
SoutheastKey WestAudubon, c.1840s Hemingway, 1851 Truman Little White House, 1890 MiamiCharles Deering Cutler Estate, 1889 and 1921The Barnacle, 1891Merrick House, 1906VillaVizcaya, 1914El Jardin, 1918The Kampong, 1928Fort LauderdaleStranahan House, 1901Bonnet House, 1920SouthwestSarasotaCa’d’Zan, (Ringling Estate) 1924Ellenton Gamble Plantation, c. 1830sFort MeyersEdison & Ford Estates, 1886TampaLa Casita--Cigar Makers House, 1886Lake WalesPinewood, 1930NortheastWinter ParkCasa Feliz, 1932; Albin Polasek Museum, 1950OrlandoLeu House, 1889 OcoeeWithers-Maguire House & Museum, 1887DeLandDeBary Hall, 1870DeLand, 1886John B. Stetson, 1886Stetson President’s House, 1910Cross CreekMarjorie Keenan Rawlings House, c. 1880sSt. AugustineOldest House Museum Complex, c. 1700sNorthwestTallahasseeGoodwood c.1830sKnott, 1843; Governor’s Mansion, 1955BristolGregory House, Torreya State Park, 1849ApalachicolaOrman and Raney Houses, 1838 Point WashingtonWesley House, Eden Gardens, 1897Historic Pensacola VillageLavalle, 1805Barkley, 1825Dorr, 1871
\ From the Publisher"(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-Porter’s L.A. Modern resembles a coffee-table book, but it isn’t really; it’s 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\ \ \
