Eventually Everything Connects [Concertina fold-out book]: Leporello

This is a wonderful and beautifully illustrated book, really a piece of art. It makes a compelling case for why Los Angeles created a pervasive culture that the rest of us in America have benefited form and live with every day. This is a great read and a great gift for anyone, but especially architects, designers, film buff's and artists.

Simply astounding.

the book must've taken a lot of effort, but for the price there's not too much to this book.

"Eventually Everything Connects" by Loras Lora is a color graphic "visual essay" in leporello format about 1950's Californian mid-century modernism. The leporello format, an accordion-style fan fold, is particularly appropriate to the book's theme that eventually everything connects. Closed, the slightly larger than normal dimensional format opens wide as the theme expands. I am smiling how the color scheme (blues, greens, reds and yellows) is just straight out of the 1950's!The book, completely unfolded, is about four meters in length. It is printed on both sides. A word oriented book reader might be bothered struggling to know which panel to read first. I started with the two panels with Charles Eames sitting in his Richard Neutra designed apartment, and Ray outside tending a sculpture in the garden. However, you can just as easily start on the other side of the fan-fold.Now, it is easy for me at "my age" to immediately recognize in the "not" photographic images the Charles Eames chair, Dave Brubeck, Steve McQueen, the Buster Keaton Hat, Raymond Chandler's pipe, Alfred Hitchkock, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. "Younger" readers will find useful the additional poster that labels all the images with names and draws dotted lines between the creatives that Charles Eames and Loris Lora are connecting and what the connections were.Eames, and his design aesthetic, inherited the famous European Bauhaus Design ethos. Lora might be forgiven for featuring the creative talent in mid-century California, and actually Los Angeles Southern California. Specifically Hollywood! But you have to admit that was from where after the war so much creative American expression was coming.Lora does miss one important component of mid-century modernism, creatives in the Arts and Crafts movement. Most notably she misses the iconic ceramicist, Edith Heath. However, would she fit in with this specific collection of American rogues and creative types?This graphic folio has much appeal as a physical book object. As such, it is an effective argument for what can be done physically in print. You would never see this book on a e-ink Kindle....even a color tablet would not do it justice. When you converse with your friends and family in your home, I could imagine many interesting conversations this folio would produce.I found this Leporello formatted folio in the featured Amazon Picks section of the the one and only (so far) Amazon Books retail store in Seattle Washington. A new copy comes shrink wrapped. It will display nicely on your sitting room coffee table, as well as mounted on the wall. Mounting on the wall presents issues, since, from time to time, you will have to flip it over to display the reverse. However, like me, you rotate and change your art work on display, don't you?There you go.....it's a shame the number of reviews is so low. It deserves more. You and I can claim membership in an exclusive club of appreciation for graphic publications of this type.

This is an amazing artistic work. Fold out the pages and take it in. And there is so much to take in! Thought Provoking. Creative. Playful. Colorful. Dense. Detailed. Warm. Truly communicates its title that "Eventually Everything Connects". Highly recommended. Buy two-one for the coffee table, one to pull apart, mount/frame, and hang on the wall. It is that good!

This is a poster in a hard back cover.Quite interesting idea and pleasantly illustrated, but it shouldn’t come up in a graphic novel search.