Sitting room in the penthouse of the Oviatt Building, Los Angeles, 1930

Item Overview

Title

Sitting room in the penthouse of the Oviatt Building, Los Angeles, 1930

Date Created

[circa March 30, 1930]

Date

1930-03-30

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

View of a sitting room in the penthouse of the Oviatt Building with a sofa, chairs, tables, paintings, decorative objects, carpets and silk or velvet curtains. A man is seated on the right. The Oviatt Building (617 South Olive St; constructed 1927-1928) was designed for the clothier, James Zera Oviatt, a partner in the establishment, Alexander and Oviatt. The penthouse was decorated by the Paris interior design firm, Saddler et fils. Reported in "Castle in air houses Oviatt," Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 1930: A3.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Oviatt, James.
Handwritten on negative: James Oviatt Home
Photo caption: Comforts at high level; exterior and interior of living-room of James Oviatt home atop the height-limit building of Alexander & Oviatt ("Castle in air houses Oviatt," Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 1930: A3).

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Dimensions

10 x 12.5 cm.

Medium

b&w glass negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
glass plate negatives

Names

Oviatt Building (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.047733

Latitude

-118.254701

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Penthouses--California--Los Angeles
Art deco (Architecture)--California--Los Angeles