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Houses of Los Angeles 
1920-1935
By Sam Watters
Urban Domestic Architecture series
9 x 12 inches, 392 p.p.,
Over 400 color and duotone photographs, landscape and floor plans,
5 double gatefolds.
Cloth, dust jacket
ISBN-10: 0-926494-31-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-926494-31-2
October 2007
From 1920, the population of Los Angeles more than doubled in a decade as Americans discovered a city made rich by citrus farms, oil, and Hollywood. New developments—Bel-Air, Beverly Hills, and Holmby Hills—offered house buyers ocean view lots only twenty minutes from downtown along recently completed Wilshire Boulevard.
The Los Angeles tradition of architectural innovation and fantastical luxuries reached new heights in the 1920s and 1930s with revivalist and modern residential designs evolving simultaneously. Gordon B. Kaufmann, Wallace Neff, and Roland E. Coate defined the contemporary Mediterranean villa and Monterey adobe while Lloyd Wright, Rudolph Schindler and Richard Neutra explored new building techniques and established Los Angeles as a center of American modernism. It was this interaction of the traditional and the modern that made Los Angeles architecturally unique.
Houses of Los Angeles, 1920-1935 is the sequel to Houses of Los Angeles, 1885-1919. This volume brings together for the first time house and garden plans with over 400 archival color and duotone photographs of downtown residences and mountainside estate houses, built by Hollywood celebrities and Los Angeles innovators including movie stars Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, Marion Davies and publisher William Randolph Hearst, radio innovator and Packard dealer Earle C. Anthony, Union Bank Chairman Ben R. Meyer and Native American art dealer Grace Nicholson.
FROM THE PRESS
"Sam Watters shows L.A.'s architectural history in all its resplendent, unhinged opulence...from the first mogul's Moorish villas, French chateaux, and emperor's palaces to the beginnigns of Bel-Air and Beverly Hills." —Black Book
"Houses of Los Angeles documents many of the great heartbreak homes magnificent architecture and gardens built to blend with extraordinary natural settings, all destroyed by developers, city governments and an assortment of tycoons." —Los Angeles Times
"This beautiful double volume is an invaluable addition to the history of residential architecture in America, especially as it includes interior decorating details of the period, representative landscaping, and many fascinating architectural details. It is full of ideas for landscape designers, architects and decorators who are interested in how these imposing houses were furnished and how people once lived in them." —1stdibs.com
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