The Stahl House: Case Study House #22:
by Bruce Stahl and Shari Stahl Gronwald
with Kim Cross
Talk
about growing up modern! The authors still retain their childhood home and have
written what’s called a “biography” of the house. The book is replete with
little-seen family snapshots, architectural drawings, construction photos, film
stills, and fashion shoots, as well as letters, contracts, and other
documentation (although the annoying dearth of captions creates a distracting
guessing game). Dominating it all—and most people’s perception of Pierre
Koenig’s masterpiece—is the Julius Shulman photograph on the cover. Happily,
though, this book weaves an inclusive story and shows many more facets of this
icon of modernism, and more, that it is simply a family home.
Chronicle
Books, 2021, 208 pages, hardcover, $24.95.
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