Bohemian Modern: Living in Silver Lake
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Bohemian Modern: Loads of pleasing photos
  • Someone Needs to do a good book on Silver Lake
  • Enjoyable overview of America's most interesting neighborhood
  • Must reading for Silver Lakers!
  • Modern Classic - Lush & Inviting!
Bohemian Modern: Living in Silver Lake
Barbara Bestor
Manufacturer: Collins Design
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ASIN: 0060792159
Release Date: 2006-05-02

Book Description

Also published in a gorgeous, slip-cased limited edition, Bohemian Modern is now available in this beautiful hardcover edition. Through striking illustrations and stunning photographs, Bohemian Modern explores the unique structural and interior designs that have put California's ultra-chic Silver Lake neighborhood at the forefront of a new style phenomenon.

One of the country's most renowned modernist architects, Barbara Bestor has fully embraced and perfected Silver Lake's "bohemian modern" style: a practical philosophy that is Californian in origin but achievable anywhere. It is a look that favors raw, authentic materials, brilliant colors, creative space planning, and a natural flow between indoors and outdoors.

The results, as Bohemian Modern presents, are striking: a flawlessly restored Neutra house decorated with both whimsy and restraint, a rooftop constructed for viewing the stars, a lavish outdoor garden delicately integrated into the surrounding architecture, a double-sided bookcase that soars three stories and serves as a functional art installation...there is no limit to the creativity and beauty of Silver Lake style.

Both modern and classic, refreshing and inviting, Bohemian Modern will delight readers with its breathtaking, vividly photographed tour of Silver Lake.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Bohemian Modern: Loads of pleasing photos.......2006-11-03

The book offers a great visual journey into the BOHOMO style

2 out of 5 stars Someone Needs to do a good book on Silver Lake.......2006-10-03

The L.A. neighborhood called Silver Lake is home to a large number of iconic Modern-era houses, with many created by the West Coast's masters of the period. In recent decades, as "mid-century modern" has found new admiration, a new generation of architects has been called on to add to the already rich Silver Lake Modern storyline. Thus, today, perhaps more than any other neighborhood in the U.S., Silver Lake---a neighborhood with distinct, widely acknowledged geographic boundaries---is a mecca for Modern. What's more, there's actually enough extant iconic Modern houses in Silver Lake to merit a book-length treatment. After all, many of these daring examples of design have fascinating stories.
Sadly (and frustratingly), Bestor's book, despite its title, isn't about Modern residential architecture in Silver Lake. While it does consider a small portion of Modern houses there, including important houses by Neutra, Schindler, and Lautner, it spends much more time looking outside of Silver Lake (Echo Park, Elysian Park, Atwater), in places that have their own distinct identities and architectural histories. Almost immediately, the reader is forced to ask, "What happened to Silver Lake?"
Just when one recluctantly accepts this fact in an effort to move on to experience the other houses she's selected, Bestor abruptly ends the house tour and devotes the balance of the book to her favorite restaurants and other businesses, complete with photos of the owners, recipes, and flat-footed self-promo quotes from the managers and other employees of these establishments. Few of these businesses, it must be noted, are contained in Modern buildings. Why are they in a book about Modern in Silver Lake? Page after page, it all smells of blatant advertising.
If there is a common thread binding each of the author's very odd selections of subjects, it is her seemingly incessant need to use the book's very casual short texts to promote her own firm (as well as that of her many friends mentioned in the book) and give the proprietors of her neighborhood hang-outs a pat on the back.
How a book with such a confused sense of focus got past its publisher is shocking. The door to do a good book on Silver Lake remains wide open.

3 out of 5 stars Enjoyable overview of America's most interesting neighborhood.......2006-07-06

Beautifully illustrated and informative exploration of the design and architecture of America's most unique and unheralded artist community. The author seems a bit eager to anoint herself the leader of the BOMO movement, taking great pains to establish her legacy as its central figure. At times this leaves the book feeling like an overpriced brochure for the Barbara Bestor Studio, however, there is enough content to make it a worthwhile read, particularly for those familiar with the area.

5 out of 5 stars Must reading for Silver Lakers!.......2006-05-31

As a journalist and Silver Lake resident, I found this book very informative. I have driven or walked by many of the homes featured in the book, and it is fascinating to learn about the people who live in them.

5 out of 5 stars Modern Classic - Lush & Inviting!.......2006-05-29

This book is a marvel! Kind of a cross between modern, urban, industrial, romantic and, of course, bohemian. Through extensive photos, warm and funny text, and an inviting format, the reader is transported to what seems like a foreign country. I want to live in Silver Lake! There is a wonderful sensibility behind this book; that of living simply and emphasizing those things that are truly important to quality of life: friendships, relationships, artistic expression, and warm environments in which to nurture what is important to the individual. This book will surely appeal to those who love great design, self-expressive environments, and simple pleasures. My new favorite design book!!
Bohemian Style
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • Interesting introduction to the Bohemians
  • Lots of History
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  • Great idea!
  • unique, beautiful, colorful decorating
Bohemian Style
Elizabeth Wilhide
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ASIN: 0823005364

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Tired of buying your furniture in giant warehouses an hour's drive away and struggling with assembly instructions once home, only to see the same table on the same rug in your friends' houses? Well, don a neckerchief and white blouse, pour a glass of plain old red table wine, put on some Billie Holiday, and prepare to reject "the dull conformity of mass taste and manners."

But first, read the opening chapter of interior designer and author Elizabeth Wilhide's Bohemian Style, "Artists in Residence." It's a succinct, erudite history of bohemianism as seen through the lives and often communal homes of 19th- and 20th-century artists such as William Morris, Augustus John, and Dora Carrington. The walls, floors, ceilings, light fixtures, fireplaces, and everything else in these artists' domiciles--country cottages, studios, even gypsy caravans--not only kept body and iconoclastic soul together, but also became surfaces to paint, tile, sculpt, drape, and draw. So--no money for canvas this month? Paint the landscape on the kitchen wall, then. Anything, except the status quo, goes here.

The remainder of the book is devoted to the how of bohemian style: how to paint (including how to make your own paint), applique, mosaic, tile, collage, dye and drape textiles, even turn found objects into art and light fixtures. The emphasis here is on the quick and easy--how to dash off a wall treatment in an afternoon, say. That said, it should be clear that type A personalities may very well find the decorating ideas in this book frustrating, even a shade slapdash. They're not bohemians.

A book delineating how to decorate in a style that is by its nature personal and idiosyncratic may seem a contradiction in terms, and in many ways it is, but the how here really consists of seed ideas, ruminations on how bohemians would do it, and tips for making your own visions come to life successfully. Note that there are no step-by-step instructions here; beginners will have to go elsewhere for those. Or make up their own.

With its colorful, full-page photos of historic and modern rooms that exemplify the bohemian aesthetic and its intelligently written text, this is a book that can change the way you think about home décor and even how you live in your home. --Stefanie Durbin

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As lively and spirited as the style it discusses, this exuberant documentation of interiors by the new Bohemians will appeal to anyone who loves to see and be inspired by homes that are full of passion, ingenuity, and, above all, intensely personal and decorative settings. Tracing the history of bohemianism, the book focuses strongly on the 1920s and 1930s, when the lifestyle of artists presented a provocative challenge to conventional society. The homes and work of members of London's famous Bloomsbury group are shown and discussed--artists such as Vanessa Bell, Dora Carrington, Aubrey Beardsley, Augustus John, and Cecil Beaton, who with writers Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, D. H. Lawrence, and others, lived surrounded by masterpieces of applied art. Today, based on a rejection of minimalism and a return to artistic freedom, Bohemian style often means decorating on a shoestring with improvised furnishings from cast-offs, conjuring idiosyncratic magic from the eclectic and the everyday. This book's colorful pages offer a treasure trove of easily applied decorating ideas: fast and inexpensive painted embellishments for furniture, floors, and walls; surface adornments using simple collage, mosaic, and other sculptural forms; informal fabric treatments to enliven windows, chairs, and sofas; and great tips on how creative junk shopping can produce inspired touches of bohemian style for every room of the house. 90 color illustrations.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Interesting introduction to the Bohemians.......2007-06-28

I found this book to be very informative on the famous Bohemians, like the artists William Morris and Augustus John, and some interesting tidbits on the other artists and writers that rebeled agaisnt the social and political norms of their time.

The photographs are nice and very colorful. This is not a book for the person looking for a how to "Martha Stewart" take on bohemianism.

A quote from the book says it all.
"This book provides an introduction to what is less a decorating trend and more away of life. By definition, bohemians are true originals, mavericks,even rebels, and the interiors that display their passion and creative impulses resist rigid categorization."

3 out of 5 stars Lots of History.......2007-02-16

Less practical advice than I had hoped for, but many beautiful images.

1 out of 5 stars book browsing verboten!?.......2006-08-20

I can't buy this book. Because unlike the time when I could go into a local bookstore (now locked and shuttered for good) and look through it, and even unlike Amazon's old system where we could see a lot of whole pages, only a few pages are available doe a buyer's inspection - too few, for a book which is primarily a picture book - to impress me enough to prompt me to buy it. If bookstores used this same policy, the books would be under lock and key, and little or no browsing would be permitted.

Too bad. It sounded interesting.

5 out of 5 stars Great idea!.......2006-07-04

Move from mass consumerism and furnish your home with interesting and found objects. Make your place different. Laugh at the " keep up with the jones" set and make your point.

5 out of 5 stars unique, beautiful, colorful decorating.......2006-02-23

My husband and I are both artists of sorts, and like a profusion of handmade and vintage things in our home. Being a newly married lady having to set up housekeeping for the first time, I have read whatever books I could find on decorating. I found most advocated the kind of stiff, minimalist, store-bought look my husband and I so strongly wanted to avoid.

This book has been a great help to me. It has practical instructions for making things yourself, giving different alternatives for unconventional wall treatments and floor coverings, and other methods you can use you can make your space your own.

It provides interesting historical background on everything from the embroideries William Morris had in his house to the historical use of floor cloths. It has some very lovely pictures of how artists have chosen to decorate their homes.

The book does not advocate chic modern minimalism, nor does it advocate a fluffy country style of decorating. So far, it has been one of the most useful books on the subject of decorating I have found. It is one of the few that give practical instructions on how to make things to suit your tastes, rather than simply advice on where to buy them.
Bohemian Modern LTD: Living in Silver Lake
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    Bohemian Modern LTD: Living in Silver Lake
    Barbara Bestor
    Manufacturer: Collins Design
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    ASIN: 0061146641
    Release Date: 2006-05-23

    Book Description

    In this gorgeous, slip-cased limited edition of Bohemian Modern, acclaimed modernist architect Barbara Bestor takes readers on a dazzling journey through California's legendary Silver Lake neighborhood -- an area whose unique structural and interior designs are rapidly emerging as the biggest trends in modern architecture. Featuring stunning photographs set in bold, panoramic spreads, this limited edition of Bohemian Modern also comes with an elegant cloth slipcase designed in bright green and turquoise.

    One of the country's hottest young architects, Bestor has fully embraced and perfected the "bohemian modern" style: a practical philosophy that is Californian in origin but achievable anywhere. It is a look that favors raw, authentic materials, brilliant colors, creative space planning, and a natural flow between indoors and outdoors.

    The results, as Bohemian Modern presents, are striking: a flawlessly restored Neutra house decorated with both whimsy and restraint, a rooftop constructed for viewing the stars, a lavish outdoor garden delicately integrated into the surrounding architecture, a double-sided bookcase that soars three stories and serves as a functional art installation … there is no limit to the creativity and beauty of Silver Lake style.

    Both modern and classic, refreshing and inviting, this limited edition of Bohemian Modern will delight readers with its breathtaking, vividly photographed tour of Silver Lake.

    Jan Dismas Zelenka: A Bohemian Musician at the Court of Dresden (Oxford Monographs on Music)
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • A grand attempt at a very hard task
    Jan Dismas Zelenka: A Bohemian Musician at the Court of Dresden (Oxford Monographs on Music)
    Janice B. Stockigt
    Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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    ASIN: 0198166222

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    Only in the latter half of the twentieth century did the star of Jan Dismas Zelenka begin to ascend. Why did this major Bohemian composer of the Baroque era - who was known to, and esteemed by Johann Sebastian Bach - remain in the shadows for so long? Although most of Zelenka's music was composed to serve the Catholic liturgy, he left a handful of secular compositions, including six remarkable chamber sonatas. When these were first published in the 1960s, the resurrection of the almost-forgotten Zelenka was heralded. Drawing upon surviving musical materials, contemporary accounts, and Jesuit documentation, this volume presents insights into Zelenka's life and his music and the brilliant context in which he worked - the Dresden court during the reigns of the Kings of Poland and Electors of Saxony, Friedrich August I and II. A catalogue of Zelenka's compositions is also included.

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars A grand attempt at a very hard task.......2002-04-19

    Dr. Stockigt is probably one of the best English speaking authorities on JD Zelenka. She did a fine job of tracking down the life of a man who was a Catholic outsider in the Lutheran world of Saxony. The challenge is great because of damage wrought by the fires set in Dresden by the Austrians and Prussians in the seige of 1760 and then the damage wrought by the holocaust in 1945 and then possible Soviet pilfery of the Dresden archives. Whole parts of the Zelenka catalogue are missing and some manucripts are missing sections.

    Zelenka was not cooperative with historians. He left no portrait and had no children or close students to whom he could have confided his secrets. He kept no known personal diary. Zelenka is not recorded as having married. Leaving so little behind makes the task of defining the man difficult.

    Dr. Stockigt weaves together a picture of life as a Bohemian child learning music, one which Zelenka must have lived. She shows the world of Zelenka as he matured, from Count Sporck's orchestra to the Dresden hopfkappel. She shows the Byzantine politics of the Dresden Court, the tensions between the Catholics who are tolerated for political reasons and the Lutheran majority who resent "Papist" influences in the Court. We learn of the thread of the Jesuits throughout Zelenka's life, from his education at the Klementium to his life at the Dresden Court. The Jesuits, the feared agents of the counter-Reformation, are to be seen at every turn in Zelenka's adult life.

    She chronicles Zelenka's triumphs, his downfall at the hands of Hasse and his eventual death and then his legacy as a composer.

    Dr. Stockigt focuses closely on Zelenka's music, offering analyses of themes, technical points and performance practices. We learn that the Dresden Catholic Chapel had castrati, who went on "strike". Dr. Stockigt reveals that Zelenka's patroness, the Empress Maria Josepha, protected him and we are shown his loyalty and devotion in return. We learn of her critical role in preserving his musical legacy and in how Zelenka crafted for her fine works of devotion.

    We are gratified to know that many of the best composers of the time esteemed and valued Zelenka's music - even Lutherans who had no great love of Catholics in general and Jesuit trained Catholics in particular. This does not exclude J.S. Bach, with whom Zelenka collaborated on Masses and compositional practices at the Dresden Court. We discover that Zelenka's help was critical to the first performance of Bach's mass in b minor. We are also told of the fellowship and friendship between Zelenka and Johann Georg Pisendel, much admired violinist. We also learn the G.P. Telemann, one of the greatest composers of his day, attempted to publish Zelenka's "Responsora" at risk to himself.

    Dr Stockigt shows the "afterlife" of Zelenka, from his relative neglect after death, to his legacy during the years preceding the Dresden holocaust, to his hesitant but sure "renaissance" today. It is obvious at every turn that Dr. Stockigt is fascinated with the man, loves his music and shares both with the reader.

    This book reveals a long gone world, warts and all, to those who value the music of those times. This book also attempts to show, as best as can be done, the man behind the compositions.

    Gene Herron
    Bohemians: The Glamorous Outcasts
    Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
    • Rehash of familiar facts and anecdotes.
    • haven't read it all yet, but...
    Bohemians: The Glamorous Outcasts
    Elizabeth Wilson
    Manufacturer: Rutgers University Press
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    2 out of 5 stars Rehash of familiar facts and anecdotes........2007-03-26

    Another unnecessary tome of the "publish or perish" variety. It merely documents that the author has identified and consulted written accounts of the phenomenon from the last 150 years and patched together a narrative that is very much of the cut-and-paste variety. No original research is evidenced; and where the author had the opportunity to correct gross errors of fact in sources quoted, it's just too much bother. To wit: on p. 237, "La Goulue...still there in the 1930s... In the background..stands an old man...Valentin-le-Désossé, her old dancing partner." Well, La Goulue was dead by early 1929 (30 Jan. to be exact), and her partner Valentin had slipped back into the perfectly bourgeois existence that he emerged from - to die in 1907.
    On p. 246, Mrs. Wilson gives us two paragraphs on a "certain" Dr. Walter Serner (1889-1942). She appears to know nothing about him as a writer (of brilliantly unique short stories), but insists that he eventually disappears in the Soviet Union, "perhaps in search of the bohemian's always elusive utopia".
    This romanticizing nonsense is especially galling, considering that Serner suffered the usual fate the Nazis had in store for Jews: he and his wife were arrested in Prague in 1942 and murdered a few months later, probably in Auschwitz.
    The author's website tells us that she has written an autobiography at age 45, and is a feminist, lesbian and social activist. I'd say stick to it.

    5 out of 5 stars haven't read it all yet, but..........2005-12-20

    I will be sure to re-review this item when I complete the book, but I felt the need to encourage people to buy this instead of "Bohemian Manifesto : A Field Guide to Living on the Edge" by Lauren Stover. I have actually never read that book either, but having scanned it several times, it seems to me to be a way of making the bohemian conformist and conventional; to a "real bohemian" type it would most likely be laughable. I put this in quotes because it is one of the issues that "Bohemians: the Glamorous Outcasts" grapples with. Having begun this book twice, I can say I was much more interested and understood it better the second time around, after having taken a course in 19th century European art and a survey art course from Renaissance to Modern art, so some prior knowledge of art history may be a large help in understanding
    Mabel's Santa Fe and Taos: Bohemian Legends, 1900-1950
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    • Early Santa Fe and Taos Art Colonies in Mabel's World
    Mabel's Santa Fe and Taos: Bohemian Legends, 1900-1950
    Elmo Baca
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    4 out of 5 stars Early Santa Fe and Taos Art Colonies in Mabel's World.......2002-06-07

    In December of 1917, Mabel Dodge Luhan, a wealthy patron of the arts, arrived in the very rural community of Taos, New Mexico. She arrived with an emotional need that drove her to be a focal point and a catalyst in the New Mexico art community. Although she died in 1962, she is still a controversial figure in Taos, where her spirit lingers in her house; now a Bread and Breakfast frequently used for artists retreats. Her personal artistic expression is found in the books she wrote, but she is best known for the amazing role she played in drawing painters, writers, and other artists to Taos and Santa Fe.

    "Mabel's Santa Fe and Taos" gives a brief biography of Mabel and of many of the most famous people whose lives she influenced. The people covered in this book include Charles Lummis, Adolf Bandelier, the Taos Society of Artists, Alice Corbin Henderson and William Penhallow Henderson, Witter Bynner, Spud Johnson, Andrew Dasburg, D.H Lawrence and Frieda Lawrence, Dorothy Brett, and Georgia O'Keefe. This book also contains historical information about the culture of Taos and Santa Fe from 1900-1950, weaving together the people and the places in Mabel's world.

    The text is informative and well written. Black and white photographs of the people and places are found throughout the book. Although this is an excellent overview that could be appreciated and understood by those new to the subject, it can also be used to summarize previous knowledge of the Santa Fe and Taos art colony during this time period.
    Wenceslaus Hollar: A Bohemian Artist in England
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      Wenceslaus Hollar: A Bohemian Artist in England
      Richard T. Godfrey
      Manufacturer: YC British Art
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      This handsome book reproduces, with full commentary, over 200 of Hollar`s most celebrated works as well as some never before published, works ranging from views of London to portraits to costume studies of the fashionable classes. The book also features an informative discussion of Hollar`s life and works and illustrations of works by some of his contemporaries.
      Six Bohemian Dances (Kalmus Edition)
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        The Bohemians
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          The Bohemians
          Dan Franck
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          Dan Franck's book covers the first thirty years of the twentieth century, when Montmartre and Montparnasse were filled with glorious subversives who were inventing modern art and the literary language of the century: Picasso the gentle anarchist, Apollinaire the eroticist, Modigliani and his women, Max Jacob and his men, the fiery Aragon, the solitary Soutine, Man Ray, Gertrude Stein, Henri Matisse, Andre Breton and many others. They came from many different countries.They were painters, poets, sculptors, musicians, and began seminal movements such as fauvism, cubism and surrealism. Their lives were as flamboyant as their work; they were hedonists, believed in free love and broke all the rules of conventional Parisian society. They were and always will be the heroes of the Bohemian period: a magnificent era whose influences and movements still reverberate at the turn of the twenty-first century.
          The Fitzrovians: A Portrait of Bohemian Society 1900-55
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            The Fitzrovians: A Portrait of Bohemian Society 1900-55
            Hugh David
            Manufacturer: Hodder & Stoughton General Division
            ProductGroup: Book
            Binding: Paperback

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