Trousdale Estates: Midcentury to Modern in Beverly Hills by Steven M. Price

By Steven M. Price

Filled with attractive, shiny pictures, Trousdale is the definitive historical past of the structure and layout that outlined either Beverly Hills and the final word American Dream.

Trousdale Estates is a 410-acre enclave of enormous, sumptuous houses in Beverly Hills, California. basically built within the Nineteen Fifties and ’60s, it speedy grew to become well-known for its focus of megastar citizens and the unrestrained extravagance of its midcentury smooth structure. usually operating with limitless budgets, those designers created sprawling, dependent backdrops for the final word expression of the yank Dream within the mid-to-late 20th century. In Trousdale, rate explores the architectural backgrounds, info, and ground plans of the fantastic houses, giving readers an inside of view of the world-famous Beverly Hills kind. Lavish new images is interspersed with archival and old photographs, illustrating the glamour of Trousdale either then and now.

the various architects of Trousdale comprise Lloyd Wright, Wallace Neff, Paul R. Williams, Harold Levitt, and A. Quincy Jones.

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