Andy Chase

Franklin Avenue
Hollywood, California

Lloyd Wright, Architect 1926

Although his father ultimately abandoned textile block construction, Lloyd Wright employed patterned concrete blocks in a number of his own designs.

This is a detail of the cavelike front entrance of the house.

Franklin Avenue
Hollywood, California

Lloyd Wright, Architect 1926

The fortess-like exterior of the Sowden house hides a private courtyard which can be glimpsed very briefly during a party scene in L.A. Confidential

02/18/2001 - Samuel-Novarro House (1928), Lloyd Wright, Architect

5609 Valley Oak Drive
Los Feliz/Hollywood Hills, CA

Built for Louis Samuel and later owned by Ramon Novarro, the Samuel-Novarro house is sometimes mistakenly attributed to Frank Lloyd Wright™, Senior.

Lloyd Wright (Frank Lloyd Wright, Jr.) built a successful practice in Los Angeles after coming here to supervise his father's few Los Angeles projects in the 1920's.

Frank Lloyd Wright is a registered trademark of the Frank Lloyd Wright foundation.

02/09/2001 - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1959. Frank Lloyd Wright™, Architect.

1071 5th Avenue (at 89th Street), New York, NY

My brief visit to the Guggenheim museum was a fitting end to my first trip to New York City; I didn't get to view any of the museum collections, but seeing the building itself was the real reason I went in the first place.

Frank Lloyd Wright is a registered trademark of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.

An unused photo from my days as an Edmund's staffer; one of the perks of the job at the time was participation in the long-term road test program. In late 1999, the test fleet happened to include a BMW 328i sedan.

10/02/1999 - Fairfax at Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles. Armet & Davis, Architects.

A stylish Coffee Shop sign decorates Armet & Davis' characteristically slanting roof along Fairfax ave. A potential point of interest to film buffs: A scene from the Coen Brothers' film The Big Lebowski was filmed inside Johnie's.