Trousdale Estates

Author : Steven M. Price
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781941393970

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Trousdale Estates by Steven M. Price Pdf

Filled with beautiful, vivid photographs, Trousdale is the definitive history of the architecture and design that defined both Beverly Hills and the ultimate American Dream. Trousdale Estates is a 410-acre enclave of large, luxurious homes in Beverly Hills, California. Primarily developed in the 1950s and ’60s, it quickly became famous for its concentration of celebrity residents and the unrestrained extravagance of its midcentury modern architecture. Often working with unlimited budgets, these designers created sprawling, elegant backdrops for the ultimate expression of the American Dream in the mid-to-late twentieth century. In Trousdale, Price explores the architectural backgrounds, details, and floor plans of the amazing homes, giving readers an inside view of the world-famous Beverly Hills style. Lavish new photography is interspersed with archival and historic images, illustrating the glamour of Trousdale both then and now. Some of the architects of Trousdale include Lloyd Wright, Wallace Neff, Paul R. Williams, Harold Levitt, and A. Quincy Jones.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : First Books
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Los Angeles (Calif.)
ISBN : 9780912301600

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Newcomer's Handbook® for Moving to and Living in Los Angeles, 4th Edition by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Eversz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Ex-convicts
ISBN : 9780743250177

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Zero to the Bone by Robert Eversz Pdf

Hollywood photographer Nina Zero receives from an anonymous sender a snuff film recording the murder of one of Nina's young models, which prompts an investigation into the murky world of S&M Web sites, past-life regression therapy, and the LAPD.

Author : Michael Gross
Publisher : Broadway
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780767932653

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Unreal Estate by Michael Gross Pdf

A history of lucrative real estate in Los Angeles shares the lesser-known contributions of a range of figures from Douglas Fairbanks and Marilyn Monroe to Howard Hughes and Ronald Reagan. By the best-selling author of Rogues' Gallery.

Author : Alan Hess
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1586858580

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Forgotten Modern by Alan Hess Pdf

Forgotten Modern reveals the work of the innovative architects building in California from the 1930s to the 1970s. With groundbreaking and illuminating examples that will alter the way we think of California architecture, Hess and Weintraub focus on those that exemplify early mid-entury modern, variations on minimalism, and organic architecture. Though architects, historians, and the public alike have overlooked many of these superb architects from California's past century, this book intends to bring them back to our attention. All the architects included here are important in helping to show the breadth of design, that styles like Organic were more widely represented than we have previously realized, and that the fertile soil of California design fostered a wide spectrum of remarkable ideas-even if not all developed a significant school of followers. Chapters Include: A New Introduction to Midcentury California Searching For Midcentury Modern Variations on Wood and Steel Modernism Organic Architecture History Plus Modernism

Author : Terrence Duren
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781683480938

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University Sheepdog in Westwood, L.A. by Terrence Duren Pdf

Retired UCLA Police Officer, Terrence Duren, at the center of the 2006 UCLA Taser Incident, writes his memoir, “University Sheepdog in Westwood, Los Angeles" to set the record straight regarding his life and law enforcement career. There were television news reports and articles written about the Taser incident and of Terrence Duren's past. Some of these news reports and articles were unflattering and did not paint a complete picture of him and other officers involved in the Taser incident. In addition to the protests held at UCLA and other UC campuses, there were high volume of telephone calls to UCLA with people voicing their anger and support over the Taser incident. These telephone calls came from people living in the United States and abroad. There was such a high volume of phone calls that UCLA’s telecommunications nearly broke down. After a complete and thorough investigation, the UCLA police chief as well as UCLA campus administrators, concluded that Officer Duren did not violate policy with his use of the Taser. "University sheepdog in Westwood, Los Angeles" is a memoir that gives a better understanding of Officer Terrence Duren and his former colleagues. This memoir is a story of "Sheepdogs" (police officers), protecting the "Sheep" (students\faculty\staff\visitors and others), from the "Wolves" (criminals). Some of the contents in this memoir will tell of Terrence Duren's Officer Involved Shootings, on and off campus, his working undercover for six months buying narcotics from UCLA hospital employees, his confrontation with members of the Nation of Islam, his SWAT standoff with an armed suspect, lewd and lascivious activity in the men's restrooms, his mentoring victims and suspects, flimflammer, and more! Additionally, this Memoir has contents regarding Terrence's childhood growing up around Black Panthers, his service in the United States Marine Corps in peace time and during the First Gulf War. This memoir is unlike any other police story ever told. As you read this memoir, sit down and strap up because you are about to go on a ride!

Author : Peter Prescott Tonguette
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476611518

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Orson Welles Remembered by Peter Prescott Tonguette Pdf

With a career spanning almost five decades, Orson Welles became—and in many ways still is—one of entertainment’s biggest names. His temperamental vitality, his humor and his general theatricality contributed volumes to the American stage and movie screen. His concepts of lighting and staging brought a new era to American productions. Welles influenced an entire generation of directors. These interviews conducted between 2003 and 2005 record the reminiscences of 30 individuals who worked with Orson Welles in a professional capacity. Beginning with 1937 and his work in Mercury Theatre, it follows a selected few of many who were part of Welles’s life up to his sudden death in October 1985. Including actors, editors, cinematographers, camera assistants and magicians, the work presents a rounded view of Welles’s career and, to some extent, his personal life. Each interview is presented in question and answer format with occasional commentary inserted for context or clarification. Projects discussed include Welles’s most notable (Citizen Kane and War of the Worlds) as well as others like Heart of Darkness and The Cradle Will Rock which never quite reached fruition.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:30000010453110

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Military Chaplains' Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ellen DeGeneres
Publisher : Grand Central Life & Style
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781455533558

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Home by Ellen DeGeneres Pdf

Ellen DeGeneres has bought and renovated nearly a dozen homes over the last twenty-five years, and describes her real-estate and decorating adventures as "an education." She has long cared deeply about design: "I think I wanted to be an interior designer when I was thirteen." This deluxe edition of Home is printed on extremely high quality paper, printed on a sheet-fed press, and bound in a real cloth covered case with a tipped in photo of Ellen DeGeneres' living room featuring her Picasso. In Home, DeGeneres will, for the first time, share her passion for home design and style. She believes, "You don't have to have money to have good taste," and she is eager to share what she has learned over the years. DeGeneres offers a personal look at every room in each of her homes. Included are seven of her homes past and present, from the famous "Brody House" up to her current homes, and she offers tips and advice on what each house taught her. An added bonus is a look at the homes of her friends and collaborators-some of the finest designers in the country. They share their advice on home design, furnishings, as well as a glimpse at their awe-inspiring rooms. Full of beautiful photographs, this book is a treasure trove of amazing California architecture, unique home furnishings, breathtaking art, and hundreds of ideas on putting together the home you've always dreamed of.

Author : Peter J. Holliday
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780190256531

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American Arcadia by Peter J. Holliday Pdf

A vivid and engaging exploration of California's debt to the ancient world Discussing the influence of the classics on America is nothing new; indeed, classical antiquity could be considered second only to Christianity as a force in modeling America's national identity. What has never been explored until now is how, from the beginning, Californians in particular chose to visually and culturally craft their new world using the rhetoric of classical antiquity. Through a lively exploration of material culture, literature, and architecture, American Arcadia offers a tour through California's development as a Mediterranean haven from the late nineteenth century to the present. In its earliest days, California was touted as the last opportunity for alienated Yankees to establish the refined gentleman-farmer culture envisioned by Jefferson and build new cities free of the filth and corruption of those they left back East. Through architecture and landscape design Californians fashioned an Arcadian setting evocative of ancient Greece and Rome.Later, as Arcadia gave way to urban sprawl, entire city plans were drafted to conjure classical antiquity, self-styled villas dotted the hills, and utopian communities began to shape the state's social atmosphere. Art historian Peter J. Holliday traces the classical influence primarily through the evidence of material culture, yet the book emphasizes the stories and people, famous and forgotten, behind the works, such as Florence Yoch, the renowned landscape designer and set designer for Gone with the Wind, and "Sister Aimee" Semple McPherson, the most publicized Christian evangelist of her day, whose sermons filled the Pantheon-like Angelus Temple. Telling stories from the creation of the famed aqueducts that turned the semi-arid landscape to a cornucopia of almonds, alfalfa, and oranges to the birth of the body-sculpting movement, American Arcadia offers readers a new way of seeing our past and ourselves.

Author : Ronald Isetti
Publisher : Outskirts Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781977270139

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A Troubled Oasis: A Critical History of Palm Springs, California by Ronald Isetti Pdf

This is a revised and enlarged version of A Troubled Oasis: A Critical History of Palm Springs. The key chapter on the tragedy of the Section Fourteen so-called "urban holocaust," when minorities were evicted from the center of the city in the 1960s, has been dramatically updated in light of a tranche of new, revelatory documents published online by city officials in the spring of 2023. However, all of the chapters have been enriched by greater detail, new subjects, and deeper research, making this new edition practically a new book. A critical perspective has been maintained, eschewing the boosterism of traditional municipal histories. This comprehensive study should appeal to anyone who wants to know more about the history of Palm Springs, from the prehistoric times of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians to the present day.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : San Francisco (Calif.)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105014924752

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San Francisco by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marc Wanamaker
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-23
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781439618158

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Beverly Hills by Marc Wanamaker Pdf

Nowhere on Earth are sequels and the success that fosters them more apparent than in Hollywood's bejeweled bedroom, Beverly Hills. This continuation of the history begun in Arcadia Publishing's Images of America: Early Beverly Hills presents a compendium of vintage photographs depicting America's one community that's most synonymous with wealth. However, the Great Depression hit here, too, and the book depicts that as well as the subsequent recovery and boom years, homes of the stars, influence of the close proximity to Hollywood, and the chic shops and restaurants that keep the tourists coming. From the Brown Derby to the Beverly Theatre, from the Harold Lloyd Estate to Jack Warner's digs, from the Beverly Hills Hotel's changes to those that created a new Beverly Hills Civic Center, these are the Beverly Hills facts that have been the bases for all of those Hollywood fictions.

Author : Adele Cygelman
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781423648796

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Arthur Elrod by Adele Cygelman Pdf

Arthur Elrod was the most successful interior designer working in Palm Springs from 1954 to 1974. His forward-thinking midcentury design appeared in primary homes, second houses, spec houses, country clubs, and experimental houses—in the desert and across the US. He was charming, handsome, and worked tirelessly for his A-list clientele.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1346 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1965-07
Category : Celebrities
ISBN : UOM:39015014704467

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Harper's Bazaar by Anonim Pdf