Larchmont Chronicle
NOVEMBER 2017
SECTION TWO
245 S. Irving Blvd. • $3,449,000
“WE HAVE SOME of the most beautiful homes in the world,” Bret Parsons says in front of a Beaux Arts-style home on S. Windsor.
(Continued from page 4) rently is being renovated. (The shipping executive was a nephew of Norman Chandler, married to Dorothy “Buff” Chandler; the power couple who lived on Lorraine.) Architect Paul Williams will follow Neff. Williams was designer of the building renovation that became the nowgone Perino’s Restaurant on Wilshire and Norton. Eight more architects who made their mark in the early 20th century will be portrayed in the subsequent volumes. Parsons and his co-authors seek to document the “great old estates of Los Angeles before bulldozers get them,” he said.
There’s no shortage of real estate to choose from. Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego, including Palm Springs, is the greatest home building region in the world, he says. He credits the topography, climate, wealth and the formidable creative talent found here. “We’re unstoppable… It’s like a perfect storm.” While he appreciates wellconstructed new homes, he’s disappointed with the boxy, “bento-box” style homes popping up all over town. “They’re popular because they’re cheap to build,” and buyers like them “because they’re new.” They come rife with problems, he says, including few (Please turn to page 10)
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