BRODY HOUSE THEN & NOW

The Atmoshere in 50´s at Sidney and Frances Brody by architect A. Quincy Jones and interior designer Billy Haines with "La Gerbe" by Henri Matisse.

BRODY HOUSE 

Then

" in 1949, the couple commissioned a modernist house in Holmby Hills by architect A. Quincy Jones and interior designerWilliam Haines.The house combined two fashionable contemporary styles: California mid-century Modernist architecture and sophisticated Hollywood Moderne décor. The house became a gathering spot for a cross-section of the city's elite, from old Los Angeles families such as the Chandlers to Hollywood icons Gary Cooper and Joan Crawford and also served as a showcase for a stunning art collection....Read more in...

BRODY HOUSE 

Then

BRODY HOUSE 

Then

Shortly after the house was completed, the Brodys commissioned Henri Matisse in 1952 to execute a massive ceramic-tile wall mural, one of few the artist ever made, for their courtyard. In 1953 they traveled to France to review his preliminary maquette. The story of Frances’s polite resistance to Matisse’s first cut-out design and how she persuaded the artist to provide alternatives is now legend. Matisse eventually created a 12-by-11-foot ceramic-tile wall mural for the courtyard. It was later donated to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

"La Gerbe" by Henri Matisse, commissioned by the Brodys in the early fifties and displayed in their atrium, has been donated to LACMA...Read more in...

BRODY HOUSE 

Now

BRODY HOUSE 

Then

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BRODY HOUSE 

Now