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Wright used sledgehammers and aluminum molds to imprint elaborate Maya-inspired patterns into the blocks. [9] The four Southern California textile-block houses represented Wright's earliest uses of the exotic, monumental Maya forms. [4] Storer House is the only one of Wright's textile-block houses to use multiple block patterns—four in all.
John Sowden House, also known as the "Jaws House" or the "Franklin House", is a residence built in 1926 in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles, California by Lloyd Wright. The house is noted for its use of ornamented textile blocks and for its striking facade, resembling (depending on the viewer's points of cultural reference) either a Mayan ...
The house consists of two buildings, the main house and a smaller chauffeur's apartment/garage, separated by a paved courtyard. Unlike the vertical orientation of the other three block houses, the Ennis House has a long horizontal loggia spine on the northern side, connecting public and private rooms to the south, and is very large at 6,200 sq ft (580 m 2). [9]
Wright's drawings called for the four buildings to be arranged in a pinwheel layout around the main house. [45] The main house's massing was to resemble a mesa. [46] [47] There would have been an artificial stream flowing between and through the buildings, [48] similarly to Wright's later design for Fallingwater in Pennsylvania. [49] [50]
Years later, Keeler claims Cleary sent her chilling messages on Facebook admitting to the sexual assault. "So I raped you,” Cleary allegedly wrote, per the affidavit.
The largest swimming pool in Southern California, [7] measuring 50 feet (15 m) by 150 feet (46 m), [6] and said to be "one of the finest swimming pools in the west." [8] (The pool was surrounded by a tunnel with underwater windows to view and photograph swimmers.) The technology of filtering water and adding chlorine for swimming pools was very ...
Dorothy’s ruby slippers, worn by Judy Garland in “The Wizard of Oz,” sold for a mind-boggling $28 million in December 2024, making them the most expensive movie prop ever sold. The sequined ...
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