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"1920s Southern California was the greatest home-building region in the world. Beaux-Arts trained architect Gerard Colcord flourished there, creating 400 estates between 1924 and 1984. Bret Parsons culled through 10,000 original documents and interviewed300 past and present Colcord homeowners to complete this intimate portrait of the man and his homes. Complete with architectural renderings and photographs"--Provided by publisher.

Mortgage broker, house renovator, lecturer and author, Bret Parsons spent eighteen years in the architecture and design industry, much of the time in the executive suite at Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles. He co-published three design books, wrote a monthly architecture and design column, and was often quoted in the Los Angeles Times, L.A.Times Magazine, Daily News, Washington Post and Dallas Morning News.