Casa Kahlo: Frida Kahlo’s Family Home and Sanctuary

Casa Kahlo offers an intimate new portrait of Frida Kahlo through the lens of the Kahlo family home that stayed in the family’s hands for nearly 100 years. Drawn from the memories, stories, and private archives of Frida’s great nieces, the book reveals what Casa Kahlo meant to the now world-famous artist and cultural heroine. The Kahlo family home was the artist’s safe haven away from her volatile marriage, where the people who anchored her—her parents, favorite sister, and beloved niece—lived. It’s where she brought friends and lovers away from the public life she lived in Casa Azul, where she taught legions of students in the home’s lush courtyard, and where the artist herself lived for several years in the late 1940s. Rich with family anecdotes, early artwork, unpublished letters, documents, and vivid details of daily life in Coyoacan, this is not another retelling of the Frida myth, but a rare insider account from Frida’s own family.