THOUGH the late Beverly Hills architect Gerald Colcord never achieved the same level of acclaim as his contemporaries Wallace Neff or Paul Williams, he did design more than 300 houses in Southern California and establish a passionate following that lives on today.
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FIVE DECADES AGO a young architect made his pitch to Norman Chandler, publisher of the Los Angeles Times: Build a suburban house that embodied forward-thinking design.
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A narrow, circuitous driveway leads up a hill screened by a canopy
of trees.
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IN 1973, Conrad Buff and Donald Hensman got the biggest commission
of their careers: the opportunity to design the new California
governor’s mansion.
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ONE Sunday while touring a dismal string of open houses – the
overpriced, the over ugly and the forlorn, under buzzing electrical
towers – I happened onto a little nook off Nichols Canyon Road in
the Hollywood Hills.
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