Oak Knoll Aesthetics

George Washington Smith, Pasadena, 1925. White stucco, clay tile, wrought-iron grilles on every window — Chauncey Chenoweth and Frank Weingartner doing ironwork that reads as architecture, not ornament.

@archistar1 Incredible house. What year?

Gerald Jerome Residence La Jolla, California 🇺🇸 #Architetto Henry Hester

Johnson, Kaufmann & Coate, Montecito, 1923. Mediterranean Revival, lighting by B.B. Bell & Co., roofing by Arthur Harris. Marshall Laird on the furniture.

Wallace Neff, Riviera, California, published 1946. Single-story ranch, wood shingle hip roof, brick terrace — and a curved built-in bookcase in the passage between living room and bedroom.

PTL THE WALLACE NEFF SHELL HOUSE was meticulously restored (same) by its current owners to preserve Neff’s Original architectural intent and I wouldn’t change a thing! Bonus that it has a “rare airform-constructed bomb shelter” that was added in the 60s that’s approximately 15 feet below the studio. Currently listed for only $1,950,000. If you don’t know how this works - they erect with an inflatable balloon and then spray it with gunite. Also this is widely recognized as the only surviving Wallace Neff Airform House in the United States.

Roland Coate, Pasadena, 1929. Gladding McBean tile, wrought-iron window grilles, bookshelves built into a window niche.

Roland Coate, Pasadena, 1938. White brick, green shutters, classical portico — hardware by West & Company, interiors by Cheesewright, Mason & Company. Restrained Colonial Revival done right.

@Eric_Erins And his West Coast legacy deserves equal celebration—Olmsted Sr. championed Yosemite's designation as the first public wilderness reserve, and his sons later led the effort that created California's entire state park system.

Olmsted really outdid himself with Prospect Park

@OneKindesign A nice, restrained update

1957 Midcentury modern home in California gets an inspiring makeover onekindesign.com/1957-midcentur…

Love the Lotus Pond Pavillion at Lotusland in Montecito, designed by George Washington Smith in the Italianate style

@Architectolder I've seen worse

This is simply indefensible.

Pasadena, 1956. Stone fireplace, built-in shelving, a folding screen doing real work. Mid-century California before mid-century became a mood board.

Garrett Van Pelt Jr., Pasadena, 1930. Gladding McBean tile, a patio fountain, stained glass from the Los Angeles Art Glass Company — materials that made a house, not a statement.

In 1938, Judy Garland filmed "The Wizard of Oz" at MGM and also bought a plot of land at 1231 Stone Canyon Road, Bel Air, and hired famed architect Wallace Neff to design her home in which she would live with her family. All this while she was only 16 years old. (This photo 1940)

San Marino, 1959. Aleda M. Blake and Barbara Blake of Pasadena did the interiors — the Asian screen, the built-ins, the stone fireplace. A family room that understood what a family room was for.