| Colcord—Home by Bret Parsons In the 1920s Southern California
exploded as the greatest home-building region in the world.
Beaux-Arts
trained architect Gerard Colcord flourished there, creating four
hundred estates between 1924 and 1984. Real estate expert Bret Parsons
culled through ten thousand original documents and interviewed three
hundred past and present Colcord homeowners to complete this intimate
portrait of the man and his homes. Complete with architectural
renderings and photographs. Learn more about Gerard Colcord at www.gerardcolcord.com Mortgage broker, house renovator, lecturer and author, Bret Parsons spent eighteen years in the architecture and design industry, much of the time in the executive suite at Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles. He co-published threedesign books, wrote a monthly architecture and design column, and hass often been quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Daily News, Washington Post and Dallas Morning News. |
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