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Ariel M. Efraim founded Hilcott Realty Advisors, Inc. in 2025.
Books on the Great Los Angeles Houses
An Arcadian Landscape. The California Gardens of A.E. Hanson
Ostensibly written to follow this major landscape architect's most famous projects, the book unveils why the most ambitious prewar houses in Beverly Hills and Holmby Hills were built where they are.
Exterior Decoration: Hollywood's Inside-Out Houses
The mysteriousness of the most famous postwar houses in Beverly Hills began in West Hollywood where decorators experimented with the "French Regency" style.
Houses of Los Angeles, 1885-1919
Before visionaries like Alphonzo Bell, a figure akin to Coco Chanel or Gaetano Donizetti, the major houses in Los Angeles were formally interesting, even beautiful, but they had nothing to do with the potential of this landscape to bring about a unique charm. We cannot appreciate the radical, simpler beauty (i.e. elegance) of the 1920s without perusing what came before.
Houses of Los Angeles, 1920-1935
Globally the 1920s mark a decline in architecture, a somber reaction to the extravagant Gilded Age. Nevertheless in Los Angeles this nascent interest in the form of a structure and the relationship with the landscape enabled arguably the most prolific construction of timeless, and immortal, houses since Georgian England.
The Private House
Rose Tarlow's 2001 overview of her projects in Los Angeles and New York mainly contains endless photographs of her own important house off Stone Canyon Road, Bel-Air; Richard Meier's Ackerberg House on Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu; and most importantly the renovations she made for David Geffen of the Jack Warner estate on Angelo Drive, Beverly Hills.
