Name/Title
DESIGNS FOR LIVINGEntry/Object ID
94.1.1.1Description
Calendar: "Designs for Living", a calendar for 1993 featuring the photography of Julius Shulman of twelve examples of modern architecture, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, Rudolph Schindler, and Irving Gill, and issued by Photoventures of Los Angeles. The calendar is made of a heavy paper stock with the front cover displaying the title at top, a photograph of the Kauffman House beneath it, the photographer's name at the lower right, and a subtitle of "THE WORK OF 12 VISIONARY ARCHITECTS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA" superimposed over a "1993." The photographs are in black and white and there is a preface about the modern architecture movement in southern California and about Shulman. Received from Shulman and signed with a short note by him as a Christmas gift to the Homestead, for which Shulman has done some photographic work. In good condition with some creases on the edges and a tear in the hole from which the calendar is hung. Inside front cover in blue ink reads "To Workman-Temple Homestead,/with our wishes for you/as these days are filled with/good cheer!/Olga-Julius Shulman".Lexicon
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Documentary Artifact, Calendars, Photoventures [Firm], Architecture, Modern--20th century