Architect Draftsman (2 results)

Oblong atlas folio. 17 x 12 in. [15 leaves] black paper stock, interleaved as paper guards for silver-print blow-up of TLS from Title Insurance & Trust Company, 3 hand-coloured elevation and interior renderings, w/ initials L.B. & steer's skull below, 5 hand-coloured floor plan drawings w/ architectural design details, 1 blueprint map, demarcating the "Location of Westlake Professional Building." Black pebbled buckram post-binder, gilt lettering stamped on front cover (some scuffing, edgewear, minor soiling, wear to screw-posts), still VG exemplar. An exceptional architectural sales album for the historic Westlake Professional Building (renamed Macarthur Park Medical Plaza, 2007 Wilshire Blvd.) designed to serve the burgeoning medical professionals in Southern California during the Roaring 20's. This building designed by Charles S. MacKenzie, a noted San Jose, CA architect for the Wholesale Properties Corp. was "one of the earliest extensions of the medical community to Wilshire Boulevard . . . and had special amenities for medical professionals, including gas, electric, and vacuum outlets in each suite, circulating ice water, and compressed air." At a reported cost of $ 350,000, the structural engineers were Noice & Merrill out of Los Angeles, and building contractors were Walace & Bush. The enlarged linen-backed silver print of the TLS outlines the acceptance of the terms of the Trust to manage the building, while the architectural renderings vividly portray the exterior elevation, and interior amenities of the stately building erected at the corner of Orange & Westlake in 1922-1923. The Wholesale Properties Corp. intended to capitalize as well on the extension of Orange across Westlake Park connecting the area directly to downtown Los Angeles, and with anticipation of when the street would be renamed the historic Wilshire Blvd. No similar albums located in Worldcat; See: Intensive Survey: Westlake Recovery Community Redevelopment Area, City of Los Angeles (2009), pp. 16, 74-75.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Fully Illustrated (illustrator). 149 pages. Folio Paper / Soft cover reprint edition in very good or better condition, slight wear to edges. Overall good copy of this scarce title. Excellent read. A good book to enjoy and keep on hand. Or would make a great gift for the fan / reader in your life. Illustrations are in black and white. Text is in 3 languages, English, French and German. primarilty folio illustrations of layout of formal gardens. Title page reads: Plans des plus beaux jardins pittoresques de France, d'Angleterre et d'Allemagne, et des edifices, monumens, fabriques, etc. Qui concourrent a leur embellissement, dans tous les genres d'architecture, tels que chinois, egyptien, anglois, arabe, moresque, etc. Plans of the most beautiful picturesque gardens in France, England, and Germany, and of the edifices, monuments, fabrics, etc., which contribute to their embellishment, of every kind of architecture, such as Chinese, Egyptian, English, Arabian, Moorish, etc. Plæne der schoensten und malerischten gærten, Franckreichs, Englands und Deutschlands, und der Gebæude, Denckmæhler und Fabricken, die sie zieren, aus allen gattungen von baukunst, als Chinesischer, Egyptischer, Englischer, Orientalischer, Arabischer, Mohrischer und andern. Limited edition, no. 79 of 250 copies. Book.