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An example of Mayan decorative paneling, 450 Sutter Street. Several prominent architects worked in this style, including Frank Lloyd Wright.Wright's Hollyhock House on Olive Hill in Los Angeles copied the shape of temples from Palenque, and the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo was in the shape of a Mesoamerican pyramid.
Storer House is a Frank Lloyd Wright house in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles built in 1923. The structure is noteworthy as one of the four Mayan Revival style textile-block houses built by Wright in the Los Angeles area from 1922 to 1924.
Ennis House, Mayan Revival architecture, Frank Lloyd-Wright, 1924 - photographed in 2019. A cartoon representation is featured in South Park as the base of a Chinese gang in the episode "Wing", satirizing the popular association of the Ennis House with criminal and/or Asian characters in films.
Towering over Franklin Avenue at the bottom of the Los Feliz foothills looms one of the most unusual and mysterious marvels in Los Angeles: A Mayan Revival home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright Jr ...
Samuel-Novarro House, also known as the Samuel-Novarro Residence, is a historic Mayan Revival single-family dwelling designed by Lloyd Wright in 1928. It is located at 5609 Valley Oak Dr. in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles. [1] It is Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #130. [2]
The original owner, John Sowden, was a painter and photographer who hired his friend, Lloyd Wright (eldest son of Frank Lloyd Wright), to build his home on Franklin Ave in Los Feliz. The house is built using concrete textile blocks and Mayan themes, with decorative block-work along some of the interior walls.
CBD entrepreneur Dan Goldfarb has hauled in $6.16 million for the John Sowden House, a striking neo-Mayan-style home built by Lloyd Wright in Los Feliz.
The building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, who accepted the commission in September 1953. The building was completed and consecrated in 1959. It has been cited as an example of the Mayan Revival architecture style. [6]