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Handcrafted Modern: At Home with Mid-Century Designersby Leslie Williamson
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If you had the skills and the means to build your dream home, what would it look like? As someone who's always been a bit infatuated with mid-century design, I can tell you mine would draw more than a little inspiration from the homes in this book. Handcrafted Modern showcases homes created by some of the most celebrated mid-century architects and designers — homes created for themselves. Williamson's stunning photographs capture not only craftsmanship at its finest, but also the fading colors, worn edges, and personal effects that make a house a home. Designers and daydreamers alike will find inspiration in this lavish book. Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:An intimate and revealing collection of photographs of astonishingly beautiful, iconic, and undiscovered mid-century interiors. Among significant mid-century interiors, none are more celebrated yet underpublished as the homes created by architects and interior designers for themselves. This collection of newly commissioned photographs presents the most compelling homes by influential mid-century designers, such as Russel Wright, George Nakashima, Harry Bertoia, Charles and Ray Eames, and Eva Zeisel, among others. Intimate as well as revelatory, Williamson’s photographs show these creative homes as they were lived in by their designers: Walter Gropius’s historic Bauhaus home in Massachusetts; Albert Frey’s floating modernist aerie on a Palm Springs rock outcropping; Wharton Esherick’s completely handmade Pennsylvania house, from the organic handcarved staircase to the iconic furniture. Personal and breathtaking by turn—these homes are exemplary studies of domestic modernism at its warmest and most creative.
About the AuthorLeslie Williamson is a photographer based in San Francisco. Her work has appeared in Dwell, Surface, and Travel + Leisure magazines.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Wharton Esherick George Nakashima Harry Bertoia Russel Wright Jens Risom Eva Zeisel Vladimir Kagan Irving Harper Walter Gropius Jerome & Evelyn Ackerman Charles & Ray Eames J.B. Blunk John Kapel ALbert Frey What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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