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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-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
"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
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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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5.0 out of 5 stars
nice,
By neko "neko" (bc) - See all my reviews
This review is from: L.A. Modern (Hardcover)
great book / great photography / great architecture.
well worth the money and a great addition to any good architectural library.
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3.9 out of 5 stars (9 customer reviews) 6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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"well-guarded, perfectly restored Beverly Hills aeries...Street-Porter...rated access",
By Michael W. Kelly - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: L.A. Modern (Hardcover)
I did a bit of Googling and found the title of this review on the GQ web site:
[...] I also found this review in Modernism Magazine; [...] Review of L.A.Modern in the Winter 2008-09 issue of Modernism magazine By Sandy McLendon 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. Street-Porter, who is a long way from his native Britain, lost his heart to Los Angeles many years ago, and it shows. His sumptuous, saturated, crystalline images of the best modernist residential architecture in the city are the archi- tectural-photography equivalent of George Hurrell's famed glamour shots of Hollywood stars, photographs that communicate not only an idealized beauty, but their creator's love of the subject, too. Structures so often photographed as to be almost wearyingly familiar, such as Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis House (1924), become fresh and vital again when seen through Street-Porter's lens; the photographer is able to communicate not only the oft-seen monumental quality of its exte- rior, but the gentle melancholy of its interiors as well. His photographs of Richard Neutra's Singleton House (1959) show how the structure's Mulholland Drive acreage and extraordinary views made its design inevitable. Tim Street-Porter has undertaken the task of writing his book's text to excellent effect: his architectural connoisseurship and his knowledge of his adopted city spill from every page. 6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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From Metropolitan Home magazine,
By Annie Kelly - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: L.A. Modern (Hardcover)
"Tim Street-Porter, a frequent Met Home contributer and one of the leading architecture photographers in America, offers up this handsomely formatted goody (perfect for an Isamu Noguchi coffee table): L.A. Modern (Rizzoli), with text and images by the British-born lensman and an introduction by Nicolai Ouroussoff, architecture critic of the New York Times. Street-Porter, who lives in LA., is fast becoming the Julius Shulman of his generation, documenting modernist architecture with an eye that encompasses the macro forms as well as the nuance of details. The photos of homes in L.A.Modern, arranged chronologically, include extensive interior as well as exterior shots, all recent and all in color; they range from Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House of 1920 through the Schindler, Neutra, Eames and Lautner years up to Frank Gehry's landmark Schnabel House of 1989." Michael Lassell, Metropolitan Home magazine December 2008.
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This book is a disappointment.,
By pomo design "pomo design" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: L.A. Modern (Hardcover)
After reading several reviews of this book in various home magazines, I was excited about its content and purchased it right away. I was initially delighted to see the variety of homes featured by both prominent and lesser known architects. Where the book falls flat however, is in the depth of the photographic coverage and the lack of visual subject matter to back up the text. The author has certainly done his homework relative to the history of each house and its unique features, but many times the photographs do not back up the text and there are far too few photographs per house. Many of the houses only receive two pages of coverage in this oversized monograph. The other area I was disappointed with was the photography. Although the book is beautifully composed and printed, the photographs themselves lack the drama and depth one has come to expect from seeing these houses in previous publications. I was very surprised to see that the author did not take any cues from Julius Shulman and shoot some of these houses in black and white to give them a sense of timelessness. The photos come off like very nice travel photos. Overall, I would agree with the other review that this is a nice coffee table book, but for those wanting the power and detail of a California Architectural monograph, you should probably hold out for something better.
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