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Living room in Hollywood Regency style, drawing on its tendency to favor turquoise, mirrors, and strong dark/ white contrasts. Hollywood Regency, sometimes called Regency Moderne, is a design style that describes both interior design and landscape architecture characterized by the bold use of color and contrast often with metallic and glass accents meant to signify both opulence and comfort.
John Elgin Woolf (1908 in Atlanta – 1980 in Beverly Hills, California), was an American architect noted for the Hollywood homes he created with partner and adopted son Robert Koch Woolf. Career [ edit ]
The building features two competing architectural styles: Spanish Colonial Revival and French Regency. Elements of Spanish Colonial Revival include a red tiled roof, bell tower, arched windows, and wrought iron balconies, while the building's French Regency elements include a swan-necked pediment and stone medallions .
Dorothy Draper (November 22, 1889 – March 11, 1969) was an American interior decorator.Stylistically very anti-minimalist, she used bright, exuberant colors and large prints that encompassed whole walls.
Cumberland Terrace, London, John Nash The original Piccadilly entrance to the Burlington Arcade, 1819 John Nash's All Souls Church, Langham Place, London. Regency architecture encompasses classical buildings built in the United Kingdom during the Regency era in the early 19th century when George IV was Prince Regent, and also to earlier and later buildings following the same style.
The exterior of the building was designed by the Parkinsons, with the interior completed by Williams in the Hollywood Regency style. [2] David Gebhard and Robert Winter, writing in Los Angeles: An Architectural Guide described the building as having "enough curved surface to suggest that the thirties Streamline Moderne could be elegant". [4]
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Paul Revere Williams, FAIA (February 18, 1894 – January 23, 1980) was an American architect based in Los Angeles, California.Most of the buildings he designed were in Southern California and included the homes of numerous celebrities, such as Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Lon Chaney, Barbara Stanwyck, and Charles Correll.