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Colcord: Home
by
Bret Parsons
In the 1920s Southern California exploded as the greatest home-building region in the world. Beaux-Arts trained architect Gerard Colcord flourished there, creating four hundred estates between 1924 and 1984. Real estate expert Bret Parsons culled through ten thousand original documents and interviewed three hundred past and present Colcord homeowners to complete this intim...more
Hardcover, 159 pages
Published
September 15th 2008
by Angel City Press
(first published September 2008)
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If you love architecture in and around LA, this is a must-read. Gerard Colcord designed many homes in the LA area: Bel Air, Pacific Palisades, Beverly Hills. He always went into each project wanting to design specifically for the family in mind... wanting his homes to be gathering places for family and friends. This book is of particular interest to me, as my grandparents had two of their homes designed/built by Colcord. The author is a LA-based realtor specializing in historic homes of archi...more
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