As if Southern California didn’t presently have an unfair monopoly on Mid Century Contemporary day architecture, enter Trousdale Estates, the Beverly Hills enclave that’s residence to a slew of well-recognized names, and we’re not talking actors. Created in the 1950s as a gated neighborhood for the wealthy and renowned, Trousdale Estates has observed its share of marquee names come and go, but the properties in the tony development—the “forgotten gems” by Mid-Century architects A. Quincy Jones, Harold W. Levitt and Wallace Neff, among others—are lastly becoming recognized as the neighborhood’s correct stars. Right here, snapshots of the sun-drenched patios, flat roofs, glass walls and, yes, swimming pools, that preserve slavish admirers of Mid Century architecture California dreaming.
Pictures: New York Occasions
