Architectural Photographer Leslie Williamson Takes Us on a Tour of Her Own, Perfectly Appointed Midcentury Modern Home

Photography: Leslie Williams Leslie Williamson has become something of a cult hero for photographing and writing about some of the world’s most captivating, design-rich homes—and the people who have lived and worked in them. Her first book, the coffee-table classic Handcrafted Modern, offered intimate portraits of the little-seen interior worlds of such American design icons as J.B. Blunk and George Nakashima; its follow-up, Modern Originals, took her vision across the Atlantic, where she shot the houses of such legendary European designers as Alvar Aalto and Gae Aulenti. The story behind Williamson’s own San Francisco house, as it turns out, is as compelling as the ones in her books.