Mosk House, street front seen from southwest, Los Angeles, California, 1933

Item Overview

Title

Mosk House, street front seen from southwest, Los Angeles, California, 1933

Uniform title

Mosk House (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Creator

Kahn, S. Henry
Luckhaus Studio

Architect

Neutra, Richard Joseph, 1892-1970

Date Created

1933

Date

1933

Language

English

Collection

Richard and Dion Neutra Papers, 1925-1970

Notes

Description

Item_040: inscription on verso reads, "Street view, southwest / Exterior: dark coloured cement; aluminum coated / wood siding."
Item _030: print is adhered to a 2 x 24 cm strip of material containing 3 holes for insertion in a loose-leaf binder.
Item_036: inscription on verso reads, "1st prize Better Homes in America Competition 1938 / Residence Mrs. Bert Mosk Hollywoodland / Richard J. Neutra architect Los Angeles / Standardized wood chassis to fit marketable / double steel sash / Exterior wall steam pressed / composition slapbs of wood shavings and cement, penetrating molecular interstices / Aluminum flake spraycoat on all exterior redwood. Interior highly compressed / and densely surfaced woodfiber and canec fiber slabs."

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic print

Dimensions

12 x 23 cm

Medium

b&w

Keywords

Genre

Black-and-white photographs

Location

California

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Architecture--California--20th century
dwellings