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Please join Edward Cella Gallery and A + D Museum:
From left: Craig Ellwood, Steinman House (1956), restoration, interior, and landscape design, John Lautner, Chemosphere House (1960), landscape design, and Oscar Niemeyer, Strick House (1964), restoration, interior, and landscape design, by Michael Boyd
On Restoring Modernism:
The Purist and The Pragmatist
An illustrated presentation by Michael Boyd
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 / 6:30 P.M.
6032 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles
Presented at the Architecture + Design Museum and in collaboration with
The Decorative Arts and Design Council of Los Angeles County Museum of Art
  Join noted designer and collector Michael Boyd as he discusses the reconciliation of the role of the homeowner with that of a guardian in the rehabilitation of modernist domestic architecture. Founder of Boyd Design-Architecture, a design firm with an emphasis on furniture, interior, and garden design, as well as a consulting firm for the restoration and preservation of modernist architecture, Michael Boyd has supervised the restoration of homes designed by Craig Ellwood, John Lautner, Paul Rudolph, Oscar Niemeyer, Richard Neutra, and R.M. Schindler, among others. The lecture will address the exhibition PLANEfurniture: types + prototypes, and how the designer seeks invisibility and transparency with new design.Reception to follow at Edward Cella Art+Architecture at 6018 Wilshire Blvd.
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PLANEfurniture: types + prototypes
is open through June 16
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Photo: Boyd Design
Edward Cella Gallery Hours:
Tuesday through Saturday, 11am to 6pm, and by appointment
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