Hardcover Book: Both in German & English Languages. “John Lautner.” Barbara-Ann Campbell-Lange. Los Angeles, Ca. 1999

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Book:  John Lautner

Author; Barbara-Ann Campbell-Lange

Editor: Peter Gossel

Publisher: Taschen America Books

Subject: John Lautner, Architect.

Location: Los Angeles, California.

Hardcover Book: 100-6

Pages:179

Date: 1999

THIS BOOK WAS USED BY JULIUS SHULMAN IN HIS HOLLYWOOD HILLS STUDIO.

John Lautner learned architecture through hands-on-working experience rather than through classic academic training. He wanted ongoing change and passionate devotion. In 1933 he joined Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin West. Later, with his own office in Los Angeles, he became the only one of Wright’s pupils who not only adopted the master’s ideas but developed them further. For 50 years Lautner experimented with new methods of construction and with inventive formal departures, and of his 188 designs no fewer than 113 were built, most of them private houses. The sheer daring of these designs stunned his contemporaries, and remains stunning now. Many of his buildings, such as the celebrated Chemosphere, a home positioned atop a single concrete column built above Los Angeles in 1960, came to be seen as the symbols of a new architecture of limitless possibilities.

From Shulman’s Private Book Collection located at his Hollywood Hills Studio.  Shulman’s signature stamped and Studio stamp inside booklet.

*This Book is accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity authorized by the Julius Shulman Trust and Photographic Archives.

Size 9.79″ x 12.9″  (24.87 cm. x 32.77 cm.)

This Book is in excellent condition. Condition Report: Any condition statement is given as an opinion and the condition statement does not imply that this Book is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfection or the effects of aging.

This Book is part of the Julius Shulman Estate and came directly from Shulman’s Hollywood Hills Home.