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 intimate portrait of the man and his homes. Complete with architectural renderings and photographs.
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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 intimate portrait of the man and his homes. Complete with architectural renderings and photographs.
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Add this copy of Colcord: Home to cart. $37.00, new condition, Sold by Carnegie Hill Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from New York, NY, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by Angel City Press.
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New in New jacket. Quarto. 160 pp; profuse color photographs. Hardcover w/jacket. The first monograph on Beverly Hills-based residential architect Gerard R. Colcord (1900-1984), who created a significant architectural legacy of more than 300 residential estates in southern California between 1924 & 1984. He designed in a variety of architectural vernaculars, ranging from Tudor, Country French, Hollywood Regency, Spanish Hacienda, Monterey Colonial, to contemporary.
Add this copy of Colcord--Home to cart. $48.10, new condition, Sold by Max Booker rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Buffalo Grove, IL, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by Angel City Press.
Add this copy of Colcord: Home to cart. $80.26, new condition, Sold by Just one more Chapter rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Miramar, FL, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by Angel City Press.
Add this copy of Colcord: Home to cart. $120.72, new condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Clarita, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by Angel City Press.
