by Kim Cooper | Apr 25, 2019 | The Esotouric Blog
Today, in partnership with The Late Group, we celebrate the 110th birthday of William Pereira, one of the most influential shapers of mid-twentieth-century California. His scope and innovations range from the LAX Theme Building (our Eiffel Tower) to LACMA (the...
by Kim Cooper | Feb 4, 2019 | The Esotouric Blog
In exposing one distressing historic architecture world mystery, The Los Angeles Times might have just solved a second one. As we read The Times’ story about the unreported theft of significant decorative objects from a Los Angeles warehouse, we were reminded of...
by Kim Cooper | Jan 26, 2019 | The Esotouric Blog
Some believe that the architecture of the home that a person grows up in has a profound influence on their developing mind. So while the open-plan modernist houses of mid-century suburbia provided ample space for computing pioneers to imagine new worlds, it’s...
by Kim Cooper | Jan 1, 2019 | The Esotouric Blog
Gentle reader… As we slam the door on 2018, it’s time for that annual Esotouric tradition: our very opinionated list of the past year’s Top Los Angeles Historic Preservation Stories. Because preservation is never as simple as buildings being lost forever or rescued...
by Kim Cooper | Jul 16, 2018 | The Esotouric Blog
When the Office of Historic Resources received our nomination to make Times Mirror Square a protected Los Angeles landmark in June, notification was made to property owner Onni Group and to the newspaper’s new owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong that the historic resources...
