Inventing the California Look book

The long wait is over for interior design aficionados. Rizolli compiled Fred Lyon's residential photographs of San Francisco's wealthy elite from the 1940s through the 1980s. Although this ephemeral world no longer exists, it has influenced generations of designers. Before Lyon focused his camera on the aristocratic aesthetics of Frances Elkins and Tony Hail or the eloquent originality of Michael Taylor and John Dickinson, American design was centered on the East Coast. Inventing The California Look Through The Lens Of Fred Lyon: Interiors by Frances Elkins, Michael Taylor, John Dickinson, and Other Design Innovators shows how the photographer, now in his early 90s, helped shape the world-renowned "California Look" through his work with designers and magazine editors.

Hardcover, 30 x 24 cm, 256 pages