{"id":844,"date":"2008-08-18T08:45:05","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T15:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/08\/art-deco-la\/"},"modified":"2008-08-18T10:45:52","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T17:45:52","slug":"art-deco-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/18\/art-deco-la\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Deco L.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lamag.com\/do\/blog.aspx?dt=08\/15\/2008\" target=\"_blank\">from The SpyGlass Blog at LA Magazine<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #666666; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"rose\" style=\"font-family: impact, georgia, serif; line-height: 30px; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 34px; font-weight: bold; display: block; text-decoration: none; color: #c1a292; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lamag.typostream.com\/util\/TypographicReplacement.util.php?t=Art%20Deco%20Walking%20Tours&amp;s=14&amp;c=c1a292&amp;b=transparent&amp;tn=h3&amp;aw=629&amp;className=rose\" alt=\"Art Deco Walking Tours\" style=\"vertical-align: bottom\" \/><\/h3>\n<p class=\"text\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lamag.com\/uploadedImages\/LA_Mag\/blogs\/theSpyGlass\/2008\/08\/deco-large.jpg\" alt=\"deco large\" border=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"274\" \/><br \/>\n<em>From Josefa Corpuz:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Like the Los Angeles of our dreams, the\u00a0art deco\u00a0movement from the &#8217;20s and &#8217;30s is elegant, eclectic, glamorous, and forward-looking. The L.A. Conservancy (a nonprofit organization that works to preserve historic architecture in Los Angeles County \u2013 or, more succinctly, \u201cWe preserve history in the age of McMansions\u201d) gives walking tours of downtown\u2019s Art Deco gems.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lamag.com\/uploadedImages\/LA_Mag\/blogs\/theSpyGlass\/2008\/08\/deco-medium.jpg\" alt=\"deco medium\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"15\" width=\"240\" height=\"363\" align=\"right\" \/>Our docent, David Peake, has been a Conservancy member for\u00a012 years and a tour guide for six. He was converted to the cause one hot, smoggy day back in 1992, when the chords of a pipe organ and the \u201cshabby glamour\u201d of the unrestored Orpheum Theatre combined to produce a historical headrush. \u201cI\u2019m not a particularly religious man,\u201d Peake said, \u201cbut I thought \u2013 this is my cathedral.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many art deco buildings downtown can inspire similar awe. The Title Guarantee &amp; Trust Building has a stylized Gothic tower, complete with gargoyle-like waterspouts; the Eastern Columbia Building on Broadway is a blue-and-green \u201cpeacock\u201d of a building that glints, gemlike, in the sun.<\/p>\n<p>Two blocks down on Olive Street is the Oviatt Building, once a high-class haberdashery and the home of storeowner James Oviatt. Inspired by the 1925 Paris Exposition, where art deco began, Oviatt decorated his building with French textiles, French marble, French glass (over\u00a030 tons of it), and even French sand for the \u201cbeach\u201d on his penthouse sunbathing deck.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lamag.com\/do\/blog.aspx?dt=08\/15\/2008\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full blog at LAmag.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The SpyGlass Blog at LA Magazine From Josefa Corpuz: Like the Los Angeles of our dreams, the\u00a0art deco\u00a0movement from the &#8217;20s and &#8217;30s is elegant, eclectic, glamorous, and forward-looking. The L.A. Conservancy (a nonprofit organization that works to preserve historic architecture in Los Angeles County \u2013 or, more succinctly, \u201cWe preserve history in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}