Originally a film music composer, Michael Boyd is a major collector and curator of modernist design based in California, who has evolved into becoming a successful artist and designer of contemporary modernist homes, furniture and landscapes.Michael Webb is a Los Angeles-based writer who has authored morethan twenty-five books on architecture and design, most recently Architects'Houses, and Building Community: New Apartment Architecture.

‘Michael Boyd is one of those rare designers that can work creatively in various mediums and the book's essays and more than three hundred photos clearly reveal this.’ - Robin Benson

• Foreword by Roman Alonso, Principal of Commune Design; Introduction by Michael Webb; Collecting Modernism; Restoring Modernist Houses; Designing from the Ground Up; Rethinking the Chair; Designing Abstract Rugs; Collaborating with Commune; Enhancing Museums; Saving a Jean Prouvé Schoolroom; Landscaping Outdoor Rooms; Michael Boyd: Living in Design.

Originally a film music composer, Michael Boyd is a major collector and curator of modernist design based in California, who has evolved into becoming a successful artist and designer of contemporary modernist homes, furniture and landscapes.Michael Webb is a Los Angeles-based writer who has authored morethan twenty-five books on architecture and design, most recently Architects'Houses, and Building Community: New Apartment Architecture.

‘Michael Boyd is one of those rare designers that can work creatively in various mediums and the book's essays and more than three hundred photos clearly reveal this.’ - Robin Benson

• Foreword by Roman Alonso, Principal of Commune Design; Introduction by Michael Webb; Collecting Modernism; Restoring Modernist Houses; Designing from the Ground Up; Rethinking the Chair; Designing Abstract Rugs; Collaborating with Commune; Enhancing Museums; Saving a Jean Prouvé Schoolroom; Landscaping Outdoor Rooms; Michael Boyd: Living in Design.

Originally a film music composer, Michael Boyd is a major collector and curator of modernist design based in California, who has evolved into becoming a successful artist and designer of contemporary modernist homes, furniture and landscapes.Michael Webb is a Los Angeles-based writer who has authored morethan twenty-five books on architecture and design, most recently Architects'Houses, and Building Community: New Apartment Architecture.

‘Michael Boyd is one of those rare designers that can work creatively in various mediums and the book's essays and more than three hundred photos clearly reveal this.’ - Robin Benson

• Foreword by Roman Alonso, Principal of Commune Design; Introduction by Michael Webb; Collecting Modernism; Restoring Modernist Houses; Designing from the Ground Up; Rethinking the Chair; Designing Abstract Rugs; Collaborating with Commune; Enhancing Museums; Saving a Jean Prouvé Schoolroom; Landscaping Outdoor Rooms; Michael Boyd: Living in Design.