Category: Sun Seekers book
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Press for Sun Seekers: The Cure of California
Selected “Top 25 Books of 2019” by Hyperallergic. “In this excellent book, Lyra Kilston reveals how the open architecture of European sanatoriums influenced the homes nestled in Southern California’s hills, such as Richard Neutra’s famous Lovell Health House. From natural medicine to nudism, Sun Seekers covers a fascinating history and its playful, vivid writing makes it a…
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Neutra’s Health House – 90th Anniversary
White walls & date-fig-walnut balls. Scenes from the 90th anniversary celebrations, in December 2019, of this iconic landmark built by Richard Neutra for naturopathic doctor Philip M. Lovell and his family in 1929. The sold-out anniversary celebrations, organized by Lyra Kilston and Josh Gorrell, featured sunset house tours, talks, and homemade vegetarian treats from Dr.…
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News & Events
Past Event Archive – Likeminds x Index Space lecture series, November 2021 – Red Medicine podcast interview, November 2021 – PIN-UP magazine book club selection and interview, June 2020 – MAK Center, March 15, 2020 (canceled) – Likeminds Camp, March 27-29, 2020 (canceled) – Wein Museum, Vienna, conference titled “California Dreaming. Richard Neutra and the…
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Chairs for Health
After interviewing medical staff and patients, Alvar Aalto and his wife Aino, also an architect, meticulously co-designed the interior of the Paimio sanatorium in southwest Finland, from door handles that would not catch the sleeve of a doctor’s coat, to sinks that muffled splashing sounds, to the tables, clocks, lighting fixtures, desks, stools, and chairs.…
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Youth Heliotherapy
Leah Lovell and Pauline Schindler ran a progressive school together in the 1920s. This image shows them in a sundrenched garden in Los Angeles, holding hands in a circle with several children (including two sons of the photographer Edward Weston). Most of the children are barefoot and naked but for underwear. Not surprisingly for the…
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Physical Culture magazine
Bernarr Macfadden was a vegetarian bodybuilder and publisher whose widely popular magazine, Physical Culture, (founded in 1899) promoted exercise, fasting, temperance, unprocessed foods, and virility. Macfadden’s origins were intoxicating, especially to a young person seeking to remake themselves. Orphaned by an alcoholic father and consumptive mother in Missouri, the sickly Macfadden was told by doctors that…
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