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Title
Pickfair dining room
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator
Gulker, Chris
Date Created and/or Issued
1986
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
Title supplied by cataloger.
Pickfair was an 18-acre estate in Beverly Hills, built between 1919 and 1923. It was designed by architect Wallace Neff for silent film actors Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford. Dubbed "Pickfair" by the press, it was one of the most famous homes in the world. After Fairbanks and Pickford divorced in 1936, Pickford remarried Charles 'Buddy' Rogers and they resided in the home until her death in 1979. After remaining empty for several years, it was demolished in 1990.
Pictured is a casual carpeted dining room with four fabric covered claw-footed chairs around an oval table. There is an ornate ceiling with a candelabra chandelier decorated with crystals. A bay window with open draped curtains lets in light, and a large potted plant is on the right.
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;30 x 22 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00106850
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box Pickford, Mary
CARL0005337336
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/31801
Subject
Pickford, Mary,--1892-1979--Homes and haunts
Pickfair Mansion (Beverly Hills, Calif.)
Motion picture actors and actresses--Homes and haunts--United States
Dwellings--California--Beverly Hills
Interiors--California--Beverly Hills
Dining rooms--California--Beverly Hills
Lost architecture--California--Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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