| | He also photographed Rand at home (Neutra's von Sternberg house) in 1949. The photos are in the biographies of Rand and most any illustrated edition of Shulman or Neutra, and she's in several of them, e.g. http://www.architecturaldigest.com/architects/features/archive/neutra_article_072001. The photos in the slideshow are all Shulman's, all dating from the time she lived there. The color shot shows the living room where the legendary early Rand-Branden meetings took place. Presumably the flowers are Frank's product. On some forum or other Barbara Branden said that Ayn and Frank gave her and her husband the sofa in the photo and that they in turn passed it on to Peikoff.
Shulman once invited the Hollyhock House volunteers to visit him at home. I asked him if he had any stories about Rand. The only one he told us was that once when she invited him, his wife and the Neutras to dinner, he got into an argument with her about grocery chains supplanting the independents. In one of her 60's essays Rand mentions "a distinguished architect" who had great plans for improving the lot of the poor in Puerto Rico and not a care in the world as to who would pay for it. This may have been at the same meal.
Just the same I was very impressed to meet someone who had met both her and Wright. Mike Wallace may be the only person alive who can claim that distinction.
(Edited by Peter Reidy on 9/30, 4:56pm)
(Edited by Peter Reidy on 9/30, 5:00pm)
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