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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. AUTHOR: Sam Watters is a writer and artists living in California. He was educated in art history and landscape design at Yale, the University of Marseilles, and the Royal Herbarium at Kew and teaches architectural drawing at the University of Southern California. << 300 b/w & 15 colour illustrations

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Sam Watters is a writer and artist living in California. He was educated in art history and landscape design at Yale, the University of Marseilles, and the Royal Herbarium at Kew and teaches architectural drawing at the University of Southern California. He is the editor of American Gardens, 1890-1930, Northeast, Mid-West and Midwest Regions (Acanthus Press, 2006) and is preparing the next volume in the Acanthus landscape series, California Gardens, 1885-1935.

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