 L.A.Modern
......very nice quality pictures....very detailed......
- unfortunately floor plans are missing -
Modern classic
this is a great coffee table book, lots of interesting colored photographs and bios. It's a good must have mid century architecture book with one of Julius Schulman's photography book.
 Damaged book
The book is completely warped due to humidity or some type of place it was stored. Both covers as well as the pages inside do not lay flat and for such a nice coffee table book I'm very disappointed.
 Best Book Ever!
I purchased this book as a gift for my husband, and he says it is absolutely the "best book EVER." The pictures are amazing, the quality of the book is excellent, the architecture highlighted is forward thinking for the dates the homes were built, and overall it is providing endless inspiration for our own home. Highly recommended.
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I did a bit of Googling and found the title of this review on the GQ web site:
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I also found this review in Modernism Magazine;
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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.
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