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Title: Interior view of Pickfair
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Creator: Padilla Studios
Date Created and/or Issued: 1939
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: An interior view of Pickfair, the home of Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks in Beverly Hills. Shown is the living room with an original Adam piece with Abission chairs, and a painting by Mercier. The architect was Wallace Neff. Decorator was Elsie DeWolfe, who is credited with originating interior design in the early 20th century. Neff himself preferred a more informal, assymetrical mode.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00019596
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA (9220); Beverly Hills-Residences-Pickfair.
CARL0000023782
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/89732
Subject: Pickfair Mansion (Beverly Hills, Calif.)
Architecture, Domestic--California--Beverly Hills
Dwellings--California--Beverly Hills
Motion picture actors and actresses
Neff, Wallace,1895-1982
DeWolfe, Elsie
Beverly Hills (Calif.)

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