Interior Portraits: At Home With Cultural Pioneers And Creative Mavericks

by Leslie Williamson

California has been at the epicenter of many a design and lifestyle trend. Following up on her previous success Leslie Williamson is back with Interior Portraits: At Home With Cultural Pioneers And Creative Mavericks, her original and compelling take on California's pioneering cultural and creative forces.

Williamson's hallmark of revealing, gorgeous interiors photography combined with personal texts to create an intimate portrait is reprised here with a new and compelling look at over a dozen unique homes of California's most revered design trailblazers. With homes ranging from early 20th-century cabins on the rugged coasts of northern California to the sunlight-filled modernist structures of Los Angeles and San Diego, Interior Portraits is itself a journey through the very best that the California design lifestyle has to offer.

Genres: Design

256 pages, Hardcover

Published February 20, 2018

About the author

Leslie Williamson’s work explores people and the spaces they inhabit. Trained as a portraitist at Art Center College of Design, she has straddled the line between fine art and the commercial world for her entire career, preferring the space in between.

Based in San Francisco, Leslie Williamson is best known for her interiors portraiture, exemplified by the photography and writing in her first book Handcrafted Modern: At Home with Mid-century Designers ; her People Watching column for the New York Times blog The Moment; and her own projects of word and image portraits wherein she captures artists and designers with sensitivity, humor, and genuine affection.

Unpublished images and outtakes from Modern Originals: At Home with Mid-Century European Designers can be seen at Leslie Williamson's website.

Reviews

[Nicole · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5

[C · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked everything about this except for the red font which was incredibly tiring and difficult to read. The pictures were gorgeous and I loved that Nepenthe in Big Sur was highlighted in this book.