Porst SP Park Moderne Pump House 2
The Pump House, one of the few remaining remnants of Park Moderne, an avant-garde country artist's retreat from the 1920's.
From the LA Times, 2001: The first subdivision in Calabasas wasn't a swank gated community or collection of mini-mansions of the kind the city is famous for today. It was a rakish art colony full of eccentric little cottages and studios, some designed by modern architectural master Rudolph Schindler.
Park Moderne was modest, with 174 small lots that sold for $525 each. Many owners built their own homes, some tiny cottages with no amenities but the sound of flowing creeks and the nightly hooting of owls.
The 400-square-foot cottages Schindler designed for the project are now so altered as to be unrecognizable. The colony was doomed by the building boom that transformed Calabasas starting in the 1960s.
Porst Compact Reflex SP with the Vivitar 20mm f/3.8 wide-angle lens on Arista EDU Ultra 100 (Fomapan 100) film.
Porst SP Park Moderne Pump House 2
The Pump House, one of the few remaining remnants of Park Moderne, an avant-garde country artist's retreat from the 1920's.
From the LA Times, 2001: The first subdivision in Calabasas wasn't a swank gated community or collection of mini-mansions of the kind the city is famous for today. It was a rakish art colony full of eccentric little cottages and studios, some designed by modern architectural master Rudolph Schindler.
Park Moderne was modest, with 174 small lots that sold for $525 each. Many owners built their own homes, some tiny cottages with no amenities but the sound of flowing creeks and the nightly hooting of owls.
The 400-square-foot cottages Schindler designed for the project are now so altered as to be unrecognizable. The colony was doomed by the building boom that transformed Calabasas starting in the 1960s.
Porst Compact Reflex SP with the Vivitar 20mm f/3.8 wide-angle lens on Arista EDU Ultra 100 (Fomapan 100) film.