Elrod house

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An apprentice to Frank Lloyd Wright early in his career, John Lautner eschewed the cool, severe geometry of his midcentury minimalist peers. Instead, he spent a lifetime as an iconoclast, alternately overlooked or miscast by critics. Several of his best-known projects — including the iconic Googie coffee shop on Sunset Boulevard — have been wrongly celebrated as Atomic Age or Hollywood kitsch.

Arthur Elrod designed homes for Walt Disney and Lucille Ball. Milo Baughman made his furniture. James Bond fought henchwomen in his living room. Yet the int...

A new book captures their architectural splendor up close and personal

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In the early 1980s, when I was an editor at Condé Nast’s House & Garden magazine, my colleagues and I were perturbed by an idée fixe of the company’s legendary editorial director, Alexander Liberman. He kept pressing us to make House & Garden more like Architectural Digest, the Los Angeles-based upstart that, under the editorship of Paige Rense, was fast approaching our once-impregnable circulation figures. He must be going gaga, we thought, as we contemplated the flashy, vulgar interiors in…

From Karl Lagerfeld’s Monaco apartment to the Elrod House, a new book examines the futuristic aesthetics of the last century’s architectural movements

From the moment you step onto the property you know right away the experience that awaits you is something spectacular. Inside the gate is a...

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