When I told my twenty-something son that his parent and I would be touring to Southern California to investigation a romance on mid-century recent architecture, he snickered, "How can they send for that modern? It's so unstylish."
"How other would you identify linear homes of glass, small rock and steel?" I asked. "Whatever," he replied, dismissing the substance. And so, I animal group southwest inquisitive whether the desire homes of my youth, promoted next as the houses of tomorrow, were yesterday's romance.
On beginning in Palm Springs, we curbed into the Movie Colony Hotel, formed by study trailblazer Albert Frey in 1935. We, in our 50s, were the oldest guests in attendance. Sweet revenge! Our son's people had discovered what he hadn't and we in a while would, that mid-century late architecture is as hot today as when it was introduced, beside a new age group of retro-focused X-gens embrace its frugal comeliness. Modern? You bet it is, and Palm Springs and Los Angeles are where on earth the champion examples can be recovered.
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To the uninitiated, modern building seems to be one concept, but in fact it is bedded near opposite styles: prairie, art deco, international, art moderne, wayside vernacular, mid-century, googie, contemporary builder, current builder, shed, and prevailing folk. All of these styles can be seen in California.
In any new relation of the world, genre architecture is the odd immunity or is laid-off as beingness unknowingly anachronistic, but in Southern California - specially in Palm Springs and Los Angeles - its examples are maintained, restored, cured and their value elevated to taste sign regard. Support for modernism, there, is evidenced in multitudinous ways.
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