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Spring 2008 Volume 11, Number 1


FEATURES
54 John Lautner: Dissolving the Confines
For this most idiosyncratic of architects, successful structures drew their inhabitants into communion with the natural world.
By Nicholas Olsberg

64 Josef Frank: Making Swedish Modern
Frank’s relaxed, accessible style convinced millions to embrace modernism.
By Christopher Long

70 Modern Screen: Many Americans first encountered modernism at the movies — and it sometimes beat the real thing.
By Sandy McLendon

76 Spaces: The House Collector
Putting his money where his heart is, Michael LaFetra gathers modernist homes, before someone else can tear them down.
Text and photography by Tim Street-Porter

DEPARTMENTS
10 Editor’s Word

13 Mailbox

18 In the Museums

22 Modern Times: News, People, Products

28 Essay Modernism Again?
The evolving marriage of design and technology.
By Pierluigi Serraino

34 Looking Back, Looking Forward
Modern movers and shakers on significant
events of the past ten years, and on what’s ahead.
Edited by Andrea Truppin

86 City Reports
Dessau: Bauhaus Legacy
By Patricia Harris and David Lyon

Shanghai: Sino Deco
By Fiona Lindsay Shen

98 Profile Hugh Acton: Still Working after All These Years
By Dan Obermaier

102 Shelf Life A Shulman Feast
By Sandy McLendon

106 Where to Buy Modernism

110 Advertisers’ Index

112 The Back Page: Modernism in Miniature
By Kate Fogarty

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