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Biltmore Hotel - restoration
Part of:
People:
  • Gene Summers (creator)
  • Ridgway Ltd. (architectural firm)
  • Gene Summers (archive creator)
Title:

Biltmore Hotel - restoration

Date:

1974 - 1984

Level of archival description:
File 15
Extent and medium:
  • 1307 drawings including 1208 reprographic copies

    565 photographic materials

    0.07 l.m. of textual records

    24 artefacts

    4 models
Scope and content:
The Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles (Schultz and Weaver of New York, 1923) was acquired by Ridgway Ltd. in 1976. The entire hotel was modernized; the historic public rooms were carefully restored and the guest rooms were entirely renovated. The project features a prominent contribution by artist Jim Dine, who made 6 watercolours, 14 wall friezes, a mirror frame, a lamp base and a rug for the rooms and public spaces of the hotel.
Reference number:

AP114.S1.SS1.D15

Arrangement:
The records in this project series has been arranged by material type.
Location:

Los Angeles California United States

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