Description
The first monograph on Arthur Elrod, layout king of the wilderness within the Fifties,’60s, and ’70s.
Arthur Elrod was once probably the most a success inside dressmaker running within the Palm Springs house from 1954 to 1974. His ahead-pondering midcentury inside layout gave the impression in number one houses, 2nd homes, 3rd homes, spec homes, u . s . golf equipment, and experimental homes―within the wilderness and throughout the United States. He was once fascinating, good-looking, and labored tirelessly for his A-listing purchasers, equivalent to Lucille Ball and Walt Disney. Possibly his so much well-known paintings was once performed in his own residence, referred to as the Elrod Space in Palm Springs, constructed through architect John Lautner in 1968.
His upward push paralleled the rising modernist motion in wilderness structure, and he labored along the best California architects of the day together with E. Stewart Williams, William F. Cody, Paul R. Williams, Buff & Hensman, A. Quincy Jones, Wexler & Harrison, Palmer & Krisel, Howard Lapham, Richard Dorman, Edward Fickett and, so much famously, John Lautner.
Elrod’s lifestyles was once minimize tragically quick while the convertible he was once using in was once hit through a under the influence of alcohol driving force one morning in February 1974; he was once 49. This in-intensity biography of the midcentury’s wunderkind inside dressmaker, Arthur Elrod, is the primary and best of its type.
Adele Cygelman is an established creator and editor who has coated inside layout, structure, and actual property for a large number of magazines, together with Architectural Digest and Robb File. She is the writer of Palm Springs Modern and Secret Gardens of Hollywood.
