Design Commune A Love Letter to California द्वारा RomanAlonso, Steven Johanknecht Hardcover, 288 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2020 द्वारा Harry N. Abrams ISBN-13: 978-1-4197-4774-8, ISBN: 1-4197-4774-6
"The work featured in this second book highlights all disciplines that Commune engages in, including interior design projects for private and commercial spaces, artist collaborations, product designs, packaging, and graphics."
"After WWII, Daniel Frasnay, a gypsy-born portrait photographer, found himself in the midst of a world where topless women dazzled in sequins, paillettes, feathers, fishnets, and little else. For 40 years Frasnay held the enviable position of official photographer at the famed Cabaret Lido, in Paris. (The story of the Lido began back in the 1920s when an artificial beach was built in the basement of a large town house at 78 Avenue des Ch ..."
"Commune was established in Los Angeles in 2004 by four like-minded souls Roman Alonso, Steven Johanknecht, Pamela Shamshiri, and Ramin Shamshiri with a common mission: to enhance life through design and to blur the lines between disciplines, eras, and styles. California is for those who refuse to conform and who live for freedom of expression, indoor/outdoor living, and that golden sunshine glinting off the waves of the Pacific. "Commun ..."
"Throughout the 1950s, Charles Brittin was the unofficial house photographer for the Beat community that coalesced around the artist Wallace Berman. Brittin settled in Venice Beach, California, in 1951, and his beach shack became a hangout for the Berman circle, which included actors Dean Stockwell and Dennis Hopper, artist John Altoon, curator Walter Hopps and poet David Meltzer, among many others. A self-taught photographer, Brittin wa ..."
"In celebration of Las Vegas's centennial, Greybull Press has put together the ultimate visual tribute to sin city. An exceptional collection of images of the city as seen through the eyes of many of the most important photographers, artists and filmmakers of the past 50 years, it also includes classic archival images that capture the true essence of what makes Vegas the high/low pleasure capital of the world: its entertainers and celebr ..."
"Remember the day you knew you looked your very best, and someone grabbed a camera to immortalize your wonderfulness? Height of Fashion is a beguiling, utterly original album of 231 enlarged snapshots of kids, teens, and adults showing off their Easter outfits, their party finery, their funky fashion and designer suits, their shags and Afros and punk dye jobs. Not to mention, when the occasion warrants, their birthday suits. Sometimes t ..."
"The two-story entry foyer looking toward the front door. The console is by Sergio
Rodrigues for Espasso. The overhead light is by Robert Lewis. 49 Early mornings
, driving across the ridge of the Hollywood Hills along sensual Mulholland Drive,
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"... out of salvaged old-growth redwood sourced from Evan Shively's Arborica in
Marshall, California. The redwood stool is by Rick Yoshimoto, who used to assist
the legendary sculptor JB Blunk. The pendant is vintage Svend Aage Sørensen."
""I'm drawn to people who defy gravity, who become obsessed with decoration, advertise their personality and make things bigger, brighter, louder, and faster than the manufacturer's specification."--Dewey Nicks"
"Photographer Joseph Szabo's subject is adolescence; his rare gift is capturing the spirit of his students at Malverne High School, caught between puberty and the precipice of adulthood. Taken in the 70s and 80s, the photographs in Teenage represent a remarkable evocation of that period, and yet there is something timeless and endlessly compelling about Szabo's portrait of almost-adulthood. Some kids are painfully self-conscious, others ..."