The Dolores Del Rio House at 757 Kingman Avenue is a house in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, that was designed for the Mexican actress Dolores del Río and her husband, the production designer Cedric Gibbons, by Douglas Honnold and George Vernon Russell in 1929. [1] [2] [3] [4]
The side of the house facing the street was likened by An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles to Art Deco with the rear of the house evoking the International Style. [1] Gibbons designed the interiors of the house, replicating the Art Deco sets that he had created for MGM as a production designer. [5] The house has four bedrooms and bathrooms over two storeys with two fireplaces and a large living room with exposed beams within 3,300 square feet (310 m2) of living space. Unusually, the main living room is situated on the second floor. [6] The house has been featured in Architectural Digest in April 1992 and March 2008. The 2008 article described the house as a "streamlined love nest". Michael Smith, who restored the house for Joe Roth, who owned the house in the 2000s, said that the residence combines "iconic style with highly advanced machine-for-living technical details". [7]
The gardens of the house were restored between 1989 and 1993 by Campbell and Campbell. The house overlooks Santa Monica Canyon. [1] A restoration of the house by the interior designer Madeline Stuart was completed in 2016. [8] The house was sold in 2006 for $2.9 million. [6]
Joseph Emanuel Roth is an American film executive, producer and director. He co-founded Morgan Creek Productions in 1988 and was chairman of 20th Century Fox (1989–1993), Caravan Pictures (1993–1994), and Walt Disney Studios (1994–2000) before founding Revolution Studios in 2000, then Roth Films.
Pacific Palisades is a neighborhood in the Westside region of Los Angeles, California, situated about 20 miles (32 km) west of Downtown Los Angeles.
María de los Dolores Asúnsolo y López Negrete, known professionally as Dolores del Río, was a Mexican actress. With a career spanning more than 50 years, she is regarded as the first major female Latin American crossover star in Hollywood. Along with a notable career in American cinema during the 1920s and 1930s, she was also considered one of the most important female figures in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, and one of the most beautiful actresses of her era.
Streamline Moderne is an international style of Art Deco architecture and design that emerged in the 1930s. Inspired by aerodynamic design, it emphasized curving forms, long horizontal lines, and sometimes nautical elements. In industrial design, it was used in railroad locomotives, telephones, toasters, buses, appliances, and other devices to give the impression of sleekness and modernity.
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Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish-American art director for the film industry. He also made a significant contribution to motion picture theater architecture from the 1930s to 1950s. Gibbons designed the Oscar statuette in 1928, but tasked the sculpting to George Stanley, a Los Angeles artist. He was nominated 39 times for the Academy Award for Best Production Design and won the Oscar 11 times, both of which are records.
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Douglas Honnold was an award-winning Canadian-born American architect. He designed many residential properties and commercial buildings in Los Angeles, California. He won an Honor Award from the Southern California Chapter of the American Institute of Architects in January 1947 for his design of the Embassy Shop in Beverly Hills alongside architect John Lautner. He turned down the offer to design the famous McDonald's golden arches.
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