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by Dennis Keeley

Urban Surprises: A Guide to Public Art in Los Angeles

$14.95

This guide invites its readers to discover hundreds of public works of art; some awe-inspiring, some poignant, and some controversial by both famous and lesser-known artists. Enhanced with neighborhood maps and beautifully reproduced color images by photographer Dennis Keeley, this book reveals the magic of the outdoor museum that is the city of Los Angeles.

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Dennis Keeley

Dennis Keeley works as an artist, photographer, teacher and writer. His photographs have been exhibited in numerous one person and group shows and he is published internationally in books and studies concerning urban circumstance. He has works in the permanent collections at LACMA, MOCA, the J. Paul Getty Center Trust, and Conservation and Research Institutes and was commissioned by the California African American Museum in Los Angeles. In 2016 he was chosen by Month of Photography Los Angeles (MOPLA) to exhibit his portraits of musicians in a solo exhibition entitled, “25 Years of Music.” Dennis Keeley is Chair of the Photography and Imaging Program at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, and has served on the Board of Directors at Angel’s Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro, CA for more than ten years.

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This guide invites its readers to discover hundreds of public works of art; some awe-inspiring, some poignant, and some controversial by both famous and lesser-known artists. Enhanced with neighborhood maps and beautifully reproduced color images by photographer Dennis Keeley, this book reveals the magic of the outdoor museum that is the city of Los Angeles.

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by Virginia Comer

The Urban Details Series: Streetlights

$14.95

Stairways, fountains and streetlights are among the many overlooked small things that enrich and give character to our cityscapes. Seeing and appreciating them is the idea behind the Urban Details series. Many have significant histories and are associated with important civic leaders, and many are merely the result of some functional requirement, but nearly all are the product of the loving hand labor of talented artisans.

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Virginia Comer

Historian Virginia Comer is widely published on the subject of Los Angeles history. Her books include Angels Flight: A History of Bunker Hill’s Incline Railway, El Alisal, and Los Angeles: A View from Crown Hill, which won the Southern California Local History Award. Ms. Comer lives in Santa Barbara.

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Stairways, fountains and STREETLIGHTS are among the many overlooked small things that enrich and give character to our cityscapes. Seeing and appreciating them is the idea behind the Urban Details series. Many have significant histories and are associated with important civic leaders, and many are merely the result of some functional requirement, but nearly all are the product of the loving hand labor of talented artisans.

Discover the Music Box Steps where Laurel and Hardy rolled a grand piano up a long stairway in this Academy Award-wining film. Imagine corseted high-heeled housewives negotiating hundreds of narrow steps heading to the streetcar carrying shopping bags. How about a fountain dedicated to Rudolph Valentino commissioned after his death by a group of loving fans? Learn about the “5-Globe Lewellyn,” the “Olympic Special” and other historic streetlights still gracing once-elegant boulevards.

These three compact books are designed as small photo albums ornamented with hand written captions conveying the sense of personal discovery the author felt while pursuing her research. Urban Details will inspire readers to rediscover the best hidden treasures in their own cities.

Description of books: Hardbound, wrapped in black paper, embossed w/ tipped in cover image, designed to imitate personal photo albums documenting the author’s discovery of the delicious urban details that enrich this large metropolis. Each book includes photographs and short histories with a color coordinated ribbon to mark the page for readers using them as guidebooks.

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by Virginia Comer

The Urban Details Series: Stairways

$14.95

Stairways, fountains and streetlights are among the many overlooked small things that enrich and give character to our cityscapes. Seeing and appreciating them is the idea behind the Urban Details series. Many have significant histories and are associated with important civic leaders, and many are merely the result of some functional requirement, but nearly all are the product of the loving hand labor of talented artisans.

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Virginia Comer

Historian Virginia Comer is widely published on the subject of Los Angeles history. Her books include Angels Flight: A History of Bunker Hill’s Incline Railway, El Alisal, and Los Angeles: A View from Crown Hill, which won the Southern California Local History Award. Ms. Comer lives in Santa Barbara.

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STAIRWAYS, fountains and streetlights are among the many overlooked small things that enrich and give character to our cityscapes. Seeing and appreciating them is the idea behind the Urban Details series. Many have significant histories and are associated with important civic leaders, and many are merely the result of some functional requirement, but nearly all are the product of the loving hand labor of talented artisans.

Discover the Music Box Steps where Laurel and Hardy rolled a grand piano up a long stairway in this Academy Award-wining film. Imagine corseted high-heeled housewives negotiating hundreds of narrow steps heading to the streetcar carrying shopping bags. How about a fountain dedicated to Rudolph Valentino commissioned after his death by a group of loving fans? Learn about the “5-Globe Lewellyn,” the “Olympic Special” and other historic streetlights still gracing once-elegant boulevards.

These three compact books are designed as small photo albums ornamented with hand written captions conveying the sense of personal discovery the author felt while pursuing her research. Urban Details will inspire readers to rediscover the best hidden treasures in their own cities.

Description of books: Hardbound, wrapped in black paper, embossed w/ tipped in cover image, designed to imitate personal photo albums documenting the author’s discovery of the delicious urban details that enrich this large metropolis. Each book includes photographs and short histories with a color coordinated ribbon to mark the page for readers using them as guidebooks.

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by Stephen M. Silverman

The Last Remaining Seats: Movie Palaces of Tinseltown

$32.00

100 vivid color images record in lavish detail the spectacular, sumptuous, and often whimsical interiors of 15 of Southern California’s most important movie palaces built during the ’20s and ’30s.

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One hundred vivid color images by architectural photographers Robert Berger and Anne Conser record in lavish detail the spectacular, sumptuous and often whimsical interiors of 16 of LA’s most important movie palaces built during the ’20s and ’30s. Architecturally themed, with expensive silks, imported marbles, gold leaf, and crystal chandeliers, these precedent-setting theaters laid the ground work for the look and feel of movie palaces in the rest of the United States.

How did the tradition of stars setting their footprints in concrete at Grauman’s Chinese begin? What celebrated chanteuse was signed to her studio contract after performing at the Orpheum (where the chandeliers cost $45,000 each in 1926)? Imagine the illuminated bridge festooned with bouquets spanning Wilshire Boulevard where 100,000 fans watched the opening of the famous Wiltern Theater.

Lively text by noted film historian, Stephen M. Silverman, brings to life the characters who created the theaters and the era in which they were built. The reader will experience the sense of awe the photographers felt upon first discovering these hidden treasures and the mission they undertook to preserve-at least on film-the last of this vanishing building type. This breath-taking book will thrill anyone interested in Hollywood’s rich past and become a treasured cornerstone in the library of every movie buff.

Photography by Robert Berger and Anne Conser

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by Nat Read

The Jonathan Club Story

For 110 years the Jonathan Club has been an important part of the fabric of Downtown Los Angeles and for 75 years the Club has enjoyed a prestigious second home on the beach of Santa Monica. Yet even its own members have not known its history, because a full account had never been researched and told in all this time. This book was prepared for the members of the Club, and for the visitors to its facilities. The Jonathan Club guards its privacy, yet many guests at its Town and Beach Club want to know more about the distinguished structures and about the institution that calls them home.

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For 110 years the Jonathan Club has been an important part of the fabric of Downtown Los Angeles and for 75 years the Club has enjoyed a prestigious second home on the beach of Santa Monica. Yet even its own members have not known its history, because a full account had never been researched and told in all this time. This book was prepared for the members of the Club, and for the visitors to its facilities. The Jonathan Club guards its privacy, yet many guests at its Town and Beach Club want to know more about the distinguished structures and about the institution that calls them home.

The Club’s birthplace was in the center of Downtown Los Angeles in the late 19th century, South Spring Street. It moved to elegant quarters on the top two floors of Henry Huntington’s prestigious Pacific Electric Building in 1905 and stayed there “at the top of Los Angeles society for two decades.” During most of this time Henry Huntington was the Club’s president and Mr. Huntington lived in a suite of rooms within The Jonathan Club.

In 1925, the Club built its own clubhouse, the 13-story Town Club that serves as its downtown headquarters today. This ornate Italian Renaissance building was designed by the distinguished hotel architects of the 1920s, Schultze and Weaver, who engaged a leading Italian artisan, Giovanni Battista Smeraldi, to paint the ceilings of its major public rooms.

In 1930 The Jonathan Club bought a large facility on the Santa Monica beach and in 1935 moved into its present beach clubhouse. The Jonathan Club remains a veritable legend in Southern California today filling a need for a private social organization with town and beach facilities in Greater Los Angeles. It is virtually unique among major American private clubs in boasting downtown and seaside clubhouses. Its overnight rooms and other amenities at both of its facilities are among the most elegant of those of any private club in America.

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by John Henken and Michael Buckland

The Hollywood Bowl: Tales of Summer Nights

$49.95

This colorful, scrapbook-style book captures the history and romance of the Hollywood Bowl through a series of essays and rare photographs of legendary performers.

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John Henken and Michael Buckland

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Sinatra…Streisand…Horowitz…Heifetz…they’ve all played the Hollywood Bowl. So have the Beatles, Leonard Bernstein, Mickey Rooney. Baryshnikov has danced there. Nat King Cole, Billie Holliday, Elton John, Al Jolson and Judy Garland have headlined star-studded shows at the Bowl.

An outdoor amphitheater in a magnificent climate, the Bowl has come to symbolize Southern California–its glamour, romance, fun and great performing tradition. Its signature arched proscenium, known worldwide, has evolved through the years with the creative assistance of three of architecture’s luminaries; Myron Hunt, Lloyd Wright, the eldest son of Frank Lloyd Wright, and most recently, internationally famous architect Frank Gehry created the fiberglass spheres that hang from the Bowl’s shell.

This large-format colorful, elegant book captures the history, spirit and legend of the Hollywood Bowl through a series of essays written by experts in various fields such as dance, opera, recording arts and jazz. Each chapter is luxuriously illustrated by photographs and illustrations carefully culled from historical archives. Otto Rothschild, staff photographer for the Philharmonic for 40 years, left behind a dazzling collection of breathtaking photographs of legendary artists never before published. A fabulous gift book, this work is also historically rigorous for the performing arts aficionado.

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by Meg McComb, Photographer

The Gamble House Cookbook: Good Design Good Food

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$30.00

One of the important principles of the arts and crafts movement was the lifestyle it represented. The natural use of materials, the flow of space, the abundant fresh air all represented a slow, graceful and organic way of living. After 100 years as one of the arts and crafts most important architectural landmarks, The Gamble House Cookbook portrays this lifestyle through Mrs. Gamble’s own recipes in her original handwriting reinterpreted for today by celebrity chef Mark Peel.

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Meg McComb, Photographer

Photographer Meg McComb, a former restauranteur and chef, began providing hand-tipped photocards to her culinary friends in the mid-90s. Attention to detail, visual ingenuity and an eye for composition easily combined with Meg’s travels abroad and around local kitchens and gardens.

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One of the important principles of the arts and crafts movement was the lifestyle it represented. The natural use of materials, the flow of space, the abundant fresh air all represented a slow, graceful and organic way of living. After 100 years as one of the arts and crafts most important architectural landmarks, The Gamble House Cookbook portrays this lifestyle through Mrs. Gamble’s own recipes in her original handwriting reinterpreted for today by celebrity chef Mark Peel.

Contemporary recipes and stylish menus round out the culinary experience while an introduction by architect Robert Harris conveys an architect’s appreciation for the experience of the dining room itself gleaned from his many meals shared their with colleagues. Intimate images of the domestic landscape by photographer Meg McComb transport the reader to a more relaxed time in one of America’s most beautiful homes.

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by Scott Johnson

The Big Idea: Criticality and Practice in Contemporary Architectures

$35.00

In this engaging memoir from the design partner of award-winning Los Angeles architecture firm Johnson Fain, the author shares his personal experiences as a designer on the rise in the latter half of the twentieth century as he considers the last forty years of the relationship between practice and theory in American architecture. From his childhood days in California’s Salinas Valley to his tenure with legendary architect Philip Johnson to his time with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to the formation of his own firm and its rise toward the top of the architectural firmament, Johnson’s unique insight makes for a fascinating discussion of each of the major movements that have characterized the world of architecture since Modernism.

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Scott Johnson

Scott Johnson is the Design Partner at Johnson Fain, an international architecture, planning and interior design firm based in Los Angeles. A prolific designer of residential, institutional and commercial buildings, a number of his best-known designs are widely published and have become landmarks. Current work includes the American Indian Cultural Center and Museum in Oklahoma City; a renovation of Philip Johnson’s Chrystal Cathedral in Garden Grove; The Great Wall Winery Hotel and Visitor Center in China, as well as multiple residential towers and mixed-use projects throughout Los Angeles.

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The Big Idea uses an autobiographical approach to explore issues of how large theoretical ideas influence day-to-day architectural practice. Architect Scott Johnson has, over the last few decades, been privileged to work in rarified environments in Berkeley, New York and Los Angeles when big ideas of architectural theory were emerging. This is an account of how one architect has made sense of his time and place.

Younger architects, for whom the unraveling of modernist orthodoxy and the emergence of various alternative ways of thinking about and designing architecture is already a chapter in the history books, will find Johnson’s account particularly interesting. His professional experiences with some of the most important names in the world of architecture are both informative and entertaining in this very personal journey through the overarching themes of contemporary architecture and the discovery of professional practice. Ultimately, The Big Idea is Scott Johnson’s testimony in defense of architecture as a life-affirming art.

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by Scott Johnson

Tall Building: Imagining the Skyscraper

$34.95

The skyscraper, whatever it may be as physical fact, looms large in our lives and, as a figment of our imaginations, carries with it ideas of ambition, dominance and commerce. The image of the skyscraper has been made and remade in the news, in literature and film, and in all forms of our now global media. Paradoxically, as the building type continues to become more complex and is designed to address fundamentally different cultural conditions, the image, that is to say, the idea, of the skyscraper in the public mind seems to become simpler, more omnipresent, and more consumable.

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Scott Johnson

Scott Johnson is the Design Partner at Johnson Fain, an international architecture, planning and interior design firm based in Los Angeles. A prolific designer of residential, institutional and commercial buildings, a number of his best-known designs are widely published and have become landmarks. Current work includes the American Indian Cultural Center and Museum in Oklahoma City; a renovation of Philip Johnson’s Chrystal Cathedral in Garden Grove; The Great Wall Winery Hotel and Visitor Center in China, as well as multiple residential towers and mixed-use projects throughout Los Angeles.

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The skyscraper, whatever it may be as physical fact, looms large in our lives and, as a figment of our imaginations, carries with it ideas of ambition, dominance and commerce. The image of the skyscraper has been made and remade in the news, in literature and film, and in all forms of our now global media. Paradoxically, as the building type continues to become more complex and is designed to address fundamentally different cultural conditions, the image, that is to say, the idea, of the skyscraper in the public mind seems to become simpler, more omnipresent, and more consumable.

Tall Building explores what the skyscraper evokes in us as a curious and complex technical achievement and also as a powerful image that has inspired artists for over 100 years. Johnson’s readable text and his intimate knowledge of tall building bring the skyscraper to life both technically and emotionally. Numerous rarely seen images of landmarks of architecture make this book a visual treat.

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by Gil Garcetti

The Art of Preserving and Packing King Tut’s Treasures

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Gil Garcetti

Gil’s lifelong love for photography began with his first camera, a gift on his thirteenth birthday from his father, who was a barber in South Los Angeles. Through his photographs, Gil discovered he could share his unique vision of the world, finding beauty in the overlooked, as well as the grand. In addition to his photography, Gil became chairman of the California Science Center Foundation in 2019. He is a producer of the hit CBS series, ALL RISE, having been a producer of the TV series THE CLOSER and MAJOR CRIMES. Gil is a frequent speaker on subjects he photographs and on social change; he is a leader in the effort to eliminate the death penalty in California. He was a teaching Fellow at the Harvard University Kennedy School and President of the LA City Ethics Commission.

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