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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )Houses of Los Angeles, 1920-1935 (Urban Domestic Architecture)by: Sam Watters  List Price: $89.00 Amazon.com's Price: $69.78 You Save: $19.22 (22%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 2 to 3 weeks
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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 728.0979494 EAN: 9780926494312 ISBN: 0926494317 Label: Acanthus Press Manufacturer: Acanthus Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 396 Publication Date: October 01, 2007 Publisher: Acanthus Press Release Date: October 01, 2007 Studio: Acanthus Press Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Los Angeles Houses, 1920-1935 brings together house and garden plans with over 300 archival photographs of downtown residences and mountainside estates built by Hollywood celebrities and Los Angeles innovators including movie starts Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, Marion Davies, David O. Selznick, Packard dealer Earle C. Anthony, Union Bank Chairman Ben R. Meyer and pioneer American Indian and Chinese art dealer Grace Nicholson. The Los Angeles tradition of architectural innovation and unimagined luxuries private air fields, golf courses, beaches and water gardens continued with revivalist and modern residential designs evolving simultaneously. Gordon B. Kaufmann, Wallace Neff, and Roland E. Coate developed the contemporary Mediterranean villa and California adobe as Lloyd Wright, Rudolph Schindler and Richard Neutra explored new building techniques and established Los Angeles as the center of American modernism. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Well doneI bought the book for my husband for Christmas. He loves it. He is a native of Pasadena, California and has always loved the houses of this era. The history of each home is well done as well as the photography. Would love to see more books like this one to even include smaller, post WWII housing. They all have a unique style. Rating:  - Brilliant BookThis two-volume study of historic Los Angeles houses from 1885 to 1935 is brilliant. The writing is excellent - witty and insightful and the historic photos are superb. Highly recommended. Rating: - CITY OF ANGELSThese books from Acanthus Press are always so elegant and well done and this one is no exception. The images are well crafted, you cant help but appreciate how crisp and clear they are. The text is informative, it's not a scholarly thesis, but then again, that's really not what is called for here, you get enough information to appreciate the house being discussed and get a breif synopsis; perfect. This book along with it's companion volumn is a must have if you have any interest in this genre. ... Read More Rating: - CALIFORNIA DREAMINGAs with all the books Acanthus Press puts out this one is fantastic. The images are crisp and beautifully executed and the text is well layed out and flows well. Los Angeles is graced with many elegant pre war mansions and this book showcases some of the best, although some of the houses picked are perplexing, and some omissions were shocking, like the Warner estate; but Greystone, Green Acres, and the Paley house are included and they are probably the most famous houses in L.A...I had wished to ... Read More Rating: - Houses of Los Angeles 1920-1935This volume completes the two volume set. It is a superb book showing the golden age if residential architecture in Los Angeles. Los Angeles was an emerging meca in paradise during those years and architect had free reign to design structures in any style that had ever existed, plus creating some new and bold styles of their own. These books are a must for all architects, interior designers, landscape designers, historians and anyone interested in architecture and life style. 
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