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Dramatic photos and fascinating text explore the rich angular
ornament, towers, graphics, and exaggerated works created by
architects and designers in 1920s to 1940s Los Angeles. Students
and admirers of the Art Deco and Streamline styles will delight in
the remarkable array of public buildings, office towers, theaters,
restaurants, religious structures, apartments, hotels, and
individual homes. Many of the leading architects of the era are
featured, including Claude Beelman; Morgan, Walls & Clements;
A.C. Martin; Walker & Eisen: and John & Donald B.
Parkinson. Celebrating populist, progressive, machine-age Los
Angeles, this wonderful book showcases the two main categories of
Art Deco styles: the zigzag, perpendicular Deco style of the 1920s
and the aerodynamic, cubist style of the Streamline 1930s and early
`40s. Allied to these are the many L.A. works known as PWA and
Classical Moderne, as well as the playful Regency Moderne. With
both exterior and interior views, this is an essential reference
and a stunning tribute to architectural expression in Los Angeles.
The drama and beauty of historic homes in California are studied
and displayed here in a deeply researched text and over 350
stunning color and over 50 black and white photographs. Southern
California's Spanish Revival monuments are pictured here-such as
Hearst Castle at San Simeon, the Adamson House in Malibu, Casa del
Herrero in Montecito. You will enjoy Rancho Revival landmarks like
the Lummis House on Pasadena's arroyo, and Will Rogers' ranch near
Pacific Palisades. These are all different portrayals of the
California Colonial, its romantic past and its manner of settling
into California's climate and landscape. Vernacular and religious
structures built between 1769 and 1848, during the Spanish Mission
and Mexican Rancho eras, gave California its unique character; a
look that was subsequently fictionalized in the revival
architecture produced since those colonial days. Particularly
influential on residential work, the colonial styles have indulged
in the rich associations with Spain's culture-employing styles and
ornament from the country's provincial Andalusian, Plateresco,
Churrigueresco, and Desornamentado styles and its ever-present
Mudejar crafts-or burrowed into its rustic pioneer roots and
depicted as individual visions of earthy rancho haciendas.
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