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#69/The Man, the Myth, the Designer Craig Ellwood: Michael Boyd
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love
English - July 23, 2018 07:00 - 41 minutes - 47.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsDesign Arts Comedy architecture design modern wright architect art lautner modernist neutra schindler Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Craig Ellwood was not a licensed architect but to his Los Angeles design clients he was a true design genius, and he could sell, too. Derided by the architecture profession of which he was formally not a part, he rose to public fame when three of his designs were included in the iconic Case Study House series. His houses are still incredibly prized today.
Michael Boyd is a landscape, furniture, and architectural designer. He is the principal of BoydDesign, a consultancy for the restoration and preservation of Modernist architecture – and listen to this, kids, he lives in Oscar Niemeyer’s only North American house. If you don’t know who Oscar Niemeyer is, start googling. Michael is the creator of PLANEfurniture, a line of architectural furnishings featured at the SF MOMA, The Palm Springs Museum, and the University of California Santa Barbara. His new book, Making L A Modern, is about the man, the myth, the designer Craig Ellwood - and he joins us from that amazing Niemeyer house in Santa Monica.