Description: Lively, snapshot-like vignettes form an intimate, literary portrait of the infamously eccentric and influential modern architect Adolf Loos.
Review Quotes: What makes the book most valuable is the fine-grained portrait it provides us of Loos' last years, of his activities and his preoccupations. [...] The English translation of her book, made by Constance C. Pontasch [and Nicholas Saunders], is fluent and accurate, conveying well the tone of Claire Loos' original (which, in turn, to some extent mimics Loos' own writing style). [...] It is a richly informative, if sad, tale, and, in Claire's telling, undoubtedly a very largely truthful one.
--Christopher Long, West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture