Craig Ellwood: Furniture

Widely acclaimed for his architecture, Craig Ellwood has become nearly synonymous with Southern California modernism and certainly Arts & Architecture’s Case Study House program – having designed CSH16 (AKA CSH 1953), CSH17 and CSH18 in short succession.

Craig Ellwood: Furniture is the first book on the architect’s other passion -- furniture design. Following author Keith York’s essay Designing Elegance: The Furniture of Craig Ellwood in Making L.A. Modern: Craig Ellwood - Myth, Man, Designer (Rizzoli, 2018), he further unveils previously unpublished, photographs and drawings tracing the trajectory of Ellwood’s interiors in the 1950s through to the early 1980s.

Craig Ellwood: Furniture is a highly unique and beautiful tribute that leverages materials from the Craig Ellwood archive at Cal Poly Pomona, and the photographic archive of Marvin Rand.

Author Keith York is a historian focused on unveiling the unique history of modern art and architecture in the San Diego region. The founder of modernsandiego.com, an online resource since 2004, York has collated thousands of documents, images and interviews to tell the story of the region’s modernist history. Following his restoration of Craig Ellwood’s Bobertz House he restored Sim Bruce Richards’ personal residence. Having made both homes widely available to tours, visitors and photographers alike he has expressed that these are two examples of the broader narrative on regional modernism. Prior to The Sensuous Environment: Sim Bruce Richards Architect, York curated and published catalogs for the exhibitions Julius Shulman: Modern San Diego; Julius Shulman: Modern La Jolla; and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Legacy in San Diego: The Taliesin Apprentices.