The Los Angeles house : decoration and design in America's 20th-century city / text and photographs by Tim Street-Porter.

Main entry:

Street-Porter, Tim.

Title & Author:

The Los Angeles house : decoration and design in America's 20th-century city / text and photographs by Tim Street-Porter.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Description:

252 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Introduction: evolution of the Los Angeles House -- A new century -- Early historical revivalism -- Early modernism -- Post-1930s revivalism -- Mid-century modernism -- Two post-war decorators -- Recent modernism -- Contemporary decorating.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Architectural photographer Street-Porter celebrates the city that has shown us more trends in design, architecture, and decoration than any other. He calls the city America's design laboratory, a kaleidoscopic succession of vistas, vegetation, and houses in an almost infinite variety of styles. This architectural landscape is essentially American, for the architects of Los Angeles--unlike those in the rest of the country, who have looked to Europe for their models--have responded to their own particular circumstances, from the city's topography to a state of mind nurtured by the film industry. Street-Porter presents the cream of L.A.'s houses from all periods and all styles--from Frank Lloyd Wright to Frank Gehry and from Dolores del Rio to Madonna. Here are Moderne masterpieces and elegantly mannered studies in Hollywood Regency. Here, too, are examples of some of the best decorators working in L.A. today.--From publisher description.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

0517700425
9780517700426
0500016577
9780500016572

Subject:

Architecture, Domestic California Los Angeles.
Interior decoration California Los Angeles History 20th century.
Décoration intérieure Californie Los Angeles Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture, Domestic.
Buildings.
Interior decoration.
Los Angeles (Calif.) Buildings, structures, etc.
California Los Angeles.
Geschichte
Interior decoration History 20th century California Los Angeles

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 121687
Call No.: ID NA7238.L6 S8; ID:95-B2353
Status: Available

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