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Monday, May 18, 2009 – Hollyhock House
It's odd living between two major Frank Lloyd Wright houses. The 1923 Stoner House is about a half a mile to the west, you can almost see it from the front door. Sure, the 1924 Ennis House is up in the Hills, but a few miles to the east, just down Hollywood Boulevard, is the famous 1921 Hollyhock House – at Barnsdall Park, Hollywood Boulevard at Vermont. This was Wright's first Los Angeles house – sort of Mayan meets Arts and Crafts.
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"Well - the building stands ... It is yours for what it has cost you. It is mine for what it has cost me. And it is for all mankind. Whatever its birth pangs, it will take its place as your contribution and mine to the vexed life of our time." ~ Frank Lloyd Wright in a letter to Aline Barnsdall
The basics:
Built between 1919 and 1921 for oil heiress Aline Barnsdall, Hollyhock House is Frank Lloyd Wright’s first project in Los Angeles. Its namesake is abstracted and geometricized in much of the house’s design, including exterior walls and interior furniture.
Hollyhock House was the centerpiece of a mostly unrealized Wright master plan for a theater community set on a thirty-six acre site, "Olive Hill." Wright left much of the supervision of construction of Hollyhock House to his son, landscape architect Lloyd Wright, and to architect Rudolf Schindler, as Wright himself was working on the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo (since destroyed).
The hill is now an arts community, somewhat as planned.
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Next Page - Wright Details
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Technical Note:
These photographs were taken with a Nikon D200 – the lenses used were AF-S Nikkor 18-70 mm 1:35-4.5G ED, or AF Nikkor 70-300 mm telephoto. The high-resolution photography here was modified for web posting using Adobe Photoshop 7.0 software.
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All text and photos unless otherwise noted, Copyright © 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 - Alan M. Pavlik
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