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
On the cover John Lautner, Sheats-Goldstein House (1963/1989), in Los Angeles. Photo by Tim Street-Porter.
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