On display will be modernist furniture commissioned by the Maharaja of Indore for his palace in the 1930s and architectural designs for an art-deco style residence commissioned by the Maharaja of Jodhpur.
The building, a lovely 1936 residence commissioned by a South African merchant named Morris Landau, has had many owners over the years — including Bruce McNall, the onetime owner of the L.A. Kings, and Ron Perelman, the financier — and is now owned by a private school called Harvard-Westlake, whose middle-school campus is next door.
After having chronicled his native city for over a decade, Shulman signed on to shoot Case Study Houses, experimental residences commissioned by Arts & Architecture magazine in the '40s, '50s and '60s, created by masters like Neutra, Raphael Soriano, Craig Ellwood and Pierre Koenig.
The residence was commissioned by American industrialist, philanthropist, and architecture patron J. Irwin Miller and his wife Xenia Simons Miller in 1953.
The castle, ruins of which remain on a rocky headland near the cathedral, was erected about 1200 as an episcopal residence that was commissioned by Bishop Roger.
Inigo Jones's Queen's House, the first Palladian-style building in England, was commissioned as a residence for Anne of Denmark; it was completed in the 1630s for Queen Henrietta Maria, consort of Charles I. The house was later converted into a school (1806), and two new wings were joined by colonnades to the original building.
It is a residence, built in the late 1930s, commissioned by department-store magnate Edgar J Kaufmann Sr, who had long owned and enjoyed the site overlooking Bear Run, one of the many tributaries of the Monongahela river in the rough but beautiful country south-east of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The Vorontsov Palace was commissioned as a summer residence for the Governor-General of Novorossiya, Prince Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov (born 1782 – died 1856).
Works from Flanders were much in demand in Italy at this time and were also commissioned by Italian merchants in residence there.
Contemporary American music is one focus, with a piano concerto by the orchestra's prolific composer in residence, Lowell Liebermann, and a piece the orchestra commissioned from Cindy McTee.
Back across the Tiber is the Palazzo Spada, former residence of Cardinal Bernardino Spada, who in 1652 commissioned one of Rome's most delightful architectural follies from Francesco Borromini.
