LIVING BY DESIGN

ARCHIVE DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE

THE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM BILBAO

BILBAO. SPAIN

FRANK GEHRY

Philip Johnson called Gehry's series of rippling titanium forms "the greatest building of our time." The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao rocked the architectural world and helped revive the gritty industrial city.

PHOTOGRAPH BY TODD EBERLE. AUGUST 1997 ISSUE.

MARKING THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF ITS REBIRTH, VANITY FAIR PRESENTS A PORTFOLIO OF THE MOST INNOVATIVE ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN TO APPEAR IN ITS PAGES. FROM PHILIP JOHNSON AND I. M. PEI TO FRANK GEHRY AND RICHARD MEIER, MATT TYRNAUER SURVEYS A PANORAMA OF EXTERIORS, INTERIORS, AND STILL LIFES— MANY OF THEM CAPTURED BY PHOTOGRAPHER TODD EBERLE—THAT HIGHLIGHT A TWO-DECADE COMMITMENT TO THE EDGE OF MODERN

MATT TYRNAUER

THE KAUFMANN HOUSE

PALM SPRINGS. CALIFORNIA

RICHARD NEUTRA Neutra's 1946 masterwork was built for Edgar Kaufmann—the department-store magnate who also commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater— and has been designated a national historic site.

PHOTOGRAPH BY JONATHAN BECKER, JUNE 1999 ISSUE.

UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS

NEW YORK CITY

WALLACE K. HARRISON, OSCAR NIEMEYER,

AND LE CORBUSIER (plus an international team of architects)

Seat consoles in the U.N. Security Council chamber feature controls for earphones that delegates and staff wear when listening to simultaneous translations.

PHOTOGRAPH BY TODD EBERLE, JUNE 2003 ISSUE.

STAHL HOUSE

LOS ANGELES

PIERRE KOENIG Vanity Fair, a longtime champion of the work of architectural photographer Julius Shulman, recently published this rarely seen color version of his I960 photo Case Study House No. 22, depicting a home built that same year. A black-and-white rendering has become one of the iconic images of modern architecture.

PHOTOGRAPH BY JULIUS SHULMAN, AUGUST 2000 ISSUE.

MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FORT WORTH

FORT WORTH, TEXAS

TADAO ANDO

The latest in a series of high-profile museum commissions (including the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts in St. Louis, the Alexander Colder Museum in Philadelphia, and the Pinault Contemporary Art Foundation in Paris), Ando's building, made of his signature concrete, stands in an acre of shallow water.

PHOTOGRAPH BY TODD EBERLE, DECEMBER 2002 ISSUE.

THE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM

NEW YORK CITY

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

The daring corkscrew design of the Guggenheim, completed in 1959, just after Wright's death at age 91, set it apart from its staid stone neighbors on New York's Upper East Side. The museum was Wright's last built project and the culmination of a great revival in the architect's popularity.

PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBERT E. MATES, NOVEMBER 1998 ISSUE.

ST. MARTINS LANE

LONDON

PHILIPPE STARCK

St. Martins Lane is one of two London collaborations by

Starck and hotel innovator Ian Schrager, who together with Anda Andrei

have redefined the design of hotels worldwide. Rooms can be

lit in different colors, according to guests' tastes, by turning a dial.

PHOTOGRAPH BY JAMES MORTIMER, MARCH 2000 ISSUE.

MITCH K.Y lYNCH Rl LOS ANGELES

JOHN LAUTNER

Lautner—who married modernism to a futuristic vision of Los Angeles worthy of the film Blade Runner—included an idiosyncratic circular living room in this house, which affords views of both the downtown cityscape and the HOLLYWOOD sign.

PHOTOGRAPH BY TODD EBERLE, APRIL 2000 ISSUE.

THE GETTY CENTER

LOS ANGELES

RICHARD MEIER When finished in 1997, Meier's sprawling travertine-and-aluminumclad headquarters (for a museum that is required to spend more than $100 million of its endowment each year) invited declarations of a new Acropolis in the Santa Monica Mountains.

PHOTOGRAPH BY TODD EBERLE. APRIL 1997 ISSUE.

HI-FI

Elegance and simplicity were hallmarks of mid-century audio systems. Above, a dial from a I960 KLH FM table radio; right, a 1957 Rek-O-Kut Rondine turntable; below, a Grundig-Majestic console.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY TODD EBERLE, JANUARY 2002 ISSUE.

SKYSCRAPER COUTURE

Vanity Fair's homage to a famous 1931 photograph from the Beaux-Arts ball presents architects outfitted with their own buildings. Opposite, Philip Johnson wears the tower from his PPG Building on his head. Clockwise from top left: I. M. Pei wears his Louvre pyramid, Robert A. M. Stern his Disney Feature Animation Building, Cesar Pelli his Carnegie Hall Tower, and Philippe Starck his Tokyo Nani Nani building.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOSEF ASTOR, JULY 1996 ISSUE.

THE STANDARD HOTEL WFST HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA

SHAWN HA&JSMAr4 AND AUDR~ BALAZS -The blue A~tr~Turf pool deck at the Stónderd botel on Sunset t~vord~ ncIudes Riéhord Schultz furniture and a Ping-Pong table. With the ening of ttis boutique estableshment, hotelià~.André Balazs created a new genre of tchic lodging for the global Prodo-Gucci tribe.

PHQTOGRAPH BY TODD EBERLE. JUNE 1999 ISSUE.

FOUR SEASONS RESTAURANT

NEW YORK CITY

PHILIP JOHNSON AND LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE The favorite lunch spot of Manhattan's corporate elite is studded with works by Miro and other modernists. Johnson designed the restaurant, including this lobby, for Mies van der Rohe's most famous American project, the former headquarters of Seagram & Sons.

PHOTOGRAPH BY TODD EBERLE, AUGUST 1999 ISSUE.

LEVER HOUSE

NEW YORK CITY

GORDON BUNSHAFT

The iconoclastic Park Avenue headquarters of Lever Brothers— the first all-glass building in New York—was the creation of Bunshaft while he was at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

PHOTOGRAPH BY TODD EBERLE, OCTOBER 2002 ISSUE.

THERMAL BATHS VALS, SWITZERLAND

PETER ZUMTHOR Two years after it opened, Zumthors spamode from concrete and local Valser quartzitewas listed as a protected building in Switzerland.

PHOTOGRAPH BY TODD EBERLE, JULY 2001 ISSUE.