No one can write about architecture in California without acknowledging her as the mother of us all.—Reyner Banham.
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"el legado de Esther McCoy se mantiene vivo"
the legacy of Esther McCoy lives on
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vestibulo, Casa Barragan (Luis Barragan, 1947-48)
Luis Barragan 9 March 1902 - 2 November 1988
image courtesy Fundación de Arquitectura Tapatía Luis Barragán A. C.
Richard Neutra (Esther McCoy, 1960. published in Italian by il Saggiatore, designed by Anita Klinz)
image courtesy spazio milano
from Box 47, McCoy papers, AAA: Free and Equal Blues," (1 sound disc) 1946
Josh White, vocal & guitar. Free and Equal Blues (Robinson-Harburg, unreleased) recorded from radio transcription, acetate on aluminum
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model, Archie Lamm house, Los Angeles. unbuilt (Gregory Ain, 1929)
image courtesy Archives of American Art
quoting McCoy, 1965:
“During the war many architects and engineers in the aircraft plant... were preparing plans for a future house that was to be brilliantly engineered, furnished with gadgets and clothed in pastoral garb – a marriage between Walden Pond and Douglas Aircraft.”
Laughlin Theater, Long Beach (Irving Gill, 1914-15; destroyed, 1933)
photo: Winstead Photo, 1921
image courtesy Los Angeles Public Library
Irving Gill (Esther McCoy, Los Angeles County Museum in collaboration with The Art Center in La Jolla, 1958. catalogue designed by Louis Danziger)
jewelry display at Paul Flato shop, 8637 Sunset Boulevard (interior designed by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbing)
photo: Maynard L. Parker, 1938
image courtesy Huntington Library
Kirk house, Seattle (Paul Hayden Kirk, 1944)
photo: Dearborn-Massar
image courtesy University of Washington Libraries
The Bachelor's Haberdashery, Los Angeles (J.R. Davidson, 1929)
photo: Will Connell
image courtesy Esther McCoy papers, AAA
Sympathetic Seeing: Esther McCoy and the Heart of American Modernist Architecture and Design
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Tower Motors/Lincoln Mercury Showroom, Glendale (John Lautner, 1947-48)
photo: Dr. Block Color Productions
Herman Miller showroom, Los Angeles
(Charles and Ray Eames, 1949)
photo: Dr. Block Color Productions
the Cellarette, "a concept for a pullout bar on wheels" (J.R. Davidson, undated/ c. 1933)
image courtesy AD&A Museum, UC Santa Barbara
