Monarch Bay Homes, Laguna Niguel (Exterior)

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Monarch Bay Homes, Laguna Niguel (Exterior)

1961
Prints; screenprints
Screenprint
20 x 26 in. (50.8 x 66.04 cm)
Gift of Gilbert Ortiz and Edward Cella Art+Architecture (M.2010.76.1)
Not currently on public view

Curator Notes

Architectural delineator Carlos Diniz translated architects’ often very technical renderings of buildings to a format easily understood by clients, developers, and the general public....
Architectural delineator Carlos Diniz translated architects’ often very technical renderings of buildings to a format easily understood by clients, developers, and the general public. Diniz created alluring drawings of Monarch Bay Homes that were shown to the developer and later used in sales brochures.

(California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way," 2011-12)
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Bibliography

  • Kaplan, Wendy, ed. California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way. Los Angeles: Los  Angeles County Museum of Art; Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2011.
  • Kaplan, Wendy, ed. Living in a Modern Way: California Design, 1930-1965.  Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2013. 

Exhibition history

  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way" Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, October 1, 2011 - June 3, 2012