REDWOOD NEWS
Fall 1949
California Redwood Association
[California Redwood Association]: REDWOOD NEWS. San Francisco: California Redwood Association, 1949. Original edition [Fall 1949]. A near-fine minus staple-bound booklet with minor shelf wear. Booklet was originally folded in half for mailing and is thus cleanly creased. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. An unmarked copy from the library of A. Quincy Jones.
8 x 8.75 [folds in half to 4 x 8.75] staple-bound booklet with 8 pages and 32 b/w illustrations. Publication features A. Quincy Jones' Nordlinger House [11492 Thurston Circle, Bel Air, Los Angeles, CA]. From the booklet: The resultant house, illustrated on the cover and these pages, has eighty percent of its exterior wall area in glass, making both sea and mountains an integral part of the decoration of the house itself, yet achieves the requirements set for privacy set by the client. Structurally, the house hangs on a steel frame, with all exterior surfaces in redwood and the interior walls of redwood and mahogany."
- Redwood, Mahogany and Glass [A. Quincy Jones, Architect; 4 pages with 18 b/w illustrations]
- Milliron's Department Store and Restaurant [Gruen and Krummeck, Architects; 4 b/w illustrations]
- Eighty-seven year-old church in Canada
- New Seating in Cotton Bowl
- Redwood in the News
- Notes for Your Datebook
From the website for the Eichler Network: "Architect A. Quincy Jones's three-decade career (1945-69) included an 18-year partnership with Frederick E. Emmons that turned out designs for thousands of Eichler homes. During that span, they produced a wide variety of other work throughout Southern California, remarkable designs that ranged from small residential projects to university master plans.
Their practice was consistent in their implementation of rationalized building systems, sensitive site design, attention to the user, and experimentation with both design and materials. The partnership grew to include commissions for churches, manufacturing plants, university structures, libraries, and commercial buildings of varying size. They made certain that there was always a residential project on the boards, serving as a laboratory for many of the ideas used in other structures. Often taking advantage of industrial prefabricated units to provide affordable yet refined architecture, Jones and Emmons bridged the gap between custom-built and merchant-built homes, producing dynamic, livable housing for the postwar moderate-income family."