Tag: design
October 6, 2014 /

Wallace Neff designed a house for Italian Soprano, Amelita Galli-Curci

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October 6, 2014 /

What’s with the antlers?

October 6, 2014 /

Wallace Neff – California Spanish – on steroids

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September 25, 2014 /

Madonna lived here – and caused a stir in Beachwood Canyon

Designed by John De Laurio for real estate developer Patrick M. Longan and completed in 1926: . . The history: Castillo del Lago: Bugsy Siegel’s Former House, and Madonna’s Too | Under the Hollywood Sign. The Pykta version: Photography and Website by Richard Horn – Negative Altitude Photography.
September 25, 2014 /

Hollywood style – Eleanor Boardman and King Vidor – 1929

King Vidor escorts his wife, actress Eleanor Boardman, to the premiere of “Marianne” in 1929: This is the house architect Wallace Neff designed for them – it was completed in 1928: laniersmith What a beautiful couple! The house looks amazing. Is that an outdoor fireplace? Hope the house is still…

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September 5, 2014 /

Shirley Maclaine celebrates Maurice Chevalier’s birthday with Louis Jordan (1959)

What can I say? I’ll restrain myself and just remark that this was taken on the set of the movie, “Can Can” in 1959. The cake is in celebration of Maurice Chevalier’s seventy-first birthday.

September 4, 2014 /

In Manhattan, gorgeous mid-century design, inside and out…

The Pepsi-Cola Building, designed by Natalie de Blois and Gordon Bunshaft for Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, 1960 For the landmark preservation report, click here. Denizens of Manhattan and an interior frieze by Constantino Nivola—ownership of the building went to Olivetti in 1967—pictured Here, the Olivetti Showroom in New York (different…

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September 4, 2014 /

Case Study House No. 20 – Photographed by Julius Shulman – Home of Saul Bass

September 2, 2014 /

Mid-century Palm Springs – with Julius Shulman and Albert Frey

August 30, 2014 /

The Fifties – Jane Russell