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Dingbat building named "The Mary & Jane" with styled balconies A stucco box. In a 1998 Los Angeles Times editorial about the area's evolving standards for development, the birth of the dingbat is retold (as a cautionary tale): "By mid-century, a development-driven southern California was in full stride, paving its bean fields, leveling mountaintops, draining waterways and filling in wetlands ...
Mid-century modern (MCM) is a movement in interior design, product design, graphic design, architecture and urban development that was present in all the world, but more popular in North America, Brazil and Europe from roughly 1945 to 1970 during the United States's post-World War II period.
Classic Googie sign at Warren, Ohio drive-in. Googie's beginnings are with the Streamline Moderne architecture of the 1930s. [16] Alan Hess, one of the most knowledgeable writers on the subject, writes in Googie: Ultra Modern Road Side Architecture that mobility in Los Angeles during the 1930s was characterized by the initial influx of the automobile and the service industry that evolved to ...
These 47 midcentury modern living room ideas blend '50s style with modern elements. Get inspired by designers to create a space that exudes timeless elegance.
Julius Shulman (October 10, 1910 – July 15, 2009) was an American architectural photographer best known for his photograph "Case Study House #22, Los Angeles, 1960. Pierre Koenig, Architect." The house is also known as the Stahl House. Shulman's photography spread the aesthetic of California's Mid-century modern architecture around the world ...
The Zimmerman House was a low-slung, 2,770-square-foot (257 m 2), five-bedroom, three-bathroom house. According to the non-profit group USModernist, Martin and Eva Zimmerman commissioned the house in 1949. [4] The Zimmermans sold the property to Richard Kelton in 1968; it was sold again in 1975 to Sam and Hilda Rolfe for $205,000. [3]
California Ranch-style modern house Cliff May (1903–1989) [ 1 ] was a building designer (he was not licensed as an architect until the last year of his life) practicing in California best known and remembered for developing the suburban Post-war "dream home" ( California Ranch House ), and the Mid-century Modern
The Garcia House (also known as The Rainbow House) is a private home in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, designed by architect John Lautner. Located on Mulholland Drive, it sits on stilts 60 feet above the canyon below. Also known as the "Rainbow House" for its parabolic roof over stained glass windows and a curved ceiling that rises to 30 ...