Maria Hummer-Tuttle: Objects of Desire

Featuring more than two hundred color photographs by Miguel Flores-Vianna and a foreword by Edmund de Waal, this book documents collector Maria Hummer-Tuttle’s three remarkable dwellings—a Los Angeles hillside house, a New York City pied-à-terre, and a beach house north of Los Angeles—and highlights objects from her extensive and varied collection. In reflections and anecdotes, Hummer-Tuttle discusses some of the unique items that she has accumulated over the years, which range from a Louis XV clock painted with characters from Aesop’s fables to a safety-pin sculpture by Claes Oldenberg and Coosje van Bruggen.