Originally a film music composer, Michael Boyd is a major collector and curator of modernist design based in California, who has evolved into becoming a successful artist and designer of contemporary modernist homes, furniture and landscapes. Michael Webb is a Los Angeles-based writer who has authored more than twenty-five books on architecture and design, most recently Architects' Houses, and Building Community: New Apartment Architecture.
Description
Foreword by Roman Alonso, Principal of Commune Design; Introduction by Michael Webb; Collecting Modernism; Restoring Modernist Houses; Designing from the Ground Up; Rethinking the Chair; Designing Abstract Rugs; Collaborating with Commune; Enhancing Museums; Saving a Jean Prouve Schoolroom; Landscaping Outdoor Rooms; Michael Boyd: Living in Design.