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The first Art Nouveau houses appeared in Brussels in 1893, including the Hotel Tassel designed by Victor Horta.Horta designed not only the house and decor but also the furniture, which featured the same nature-inspired curling whiplash lines which were featured in the architecture, wrought iron balcony and stairway railings, ceramic floors, and door handles.
Bullocks Wilshire, located at 3050 Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, is a 230,000-square-foot (21,000 m 2) Art Deco building. The building opened in September 1929 as a luxury department store for owner John G. Bullock (owner of the more mainstream Bullock's in Downtown Los Angeles). [2]
Macklowe was born to a Jewish family, [1] the son of a garment executive from Westchester County, New York.He graduated from New Rochelle High School in 1955, and attended the University of Alabama, New York University, and the School of Visual Arts before dropping out, in 1960, to become a real estate broker. [2]
In 1989, Paul Goldberger wrote for The New York Times that the Hotel Macklowe "stands as New York's proudest monument to the art of the deal." [ 120 ] The following year, Goldberger wrote that the lobby "is a spectacular interior set within a mediocre new tower of dark green glass on a stone base that appears to have been designed for another ...
Horton Furniture Building, Downtown Santa Ana, Santa Ana, 1929; ... "Art Deco Society of Los Angeles". Archived from the original on 2015-05-17. Cinema Treasures ...
Billionaire Harry Macklowe and his estranged wife have had to deal with one unusual element in their nasty divorce battle: their nearly $1 billion art collection.
The building was created to house the then-separate Eastern (furniture and homeware) and Columbia (apparel) department stores both owned and managed by Adolph Sieroty, who had founded his Los Angeles retail concern as a clock shop at 556 S. Spring St. in 1892. [19] [4] At opening in 1930, the building had 275,650 sq. ft. of floor space.
Yet Cosm Los Angeles definitely has entertainment on its mind. It will no doubt recall Las Vegas' all-encompassing arena Sphere. Yet Cosm is cozier. The centerpiece of the venue is its dome, with ...