The Samuel-Novarro House, built in 1928, was designed by Lloyd Wright (Frank Lloyd Wright's son). The four-level, Art Deco/Mayan style home, was built on the side of a hill with concrete and oxidized copper throughout and is considered to be the most beautifully sited home in Los Angeles. On July 17, 1974, the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Board declared the house a historic-cultural monument. It became officially known as the Samuel-Novarro House. The house gets it's name from Actor Ramon Novarro and his business manager Louis Samuel. Novarro had the house built for Samuel only to take ownership later when he discovered Samuel was embezzling from him to play the stock market, not a wise thing to do in the fall of 1929. When I discovered the house some years ago I thought it might make a good build. Looking at the design and dimensions of the houses details, from the windows to the copper clad treatments on the main facade. Everything about this house makes it a good minecraft build. The window designs and the layout and spacing of boxie features are all in the same scale and having a flat roof always helps. All came together very well, not much need for creative texturing. The art deco style allows so much character and creativity that I plan on doing more builds in that style, homes and maybe larger buildings (perhaps Bullock's Wilshire).

Comments

1. I LOVE art deco
2. Absolutely beautiful.
3. what about the Darwin Martin house Complex?(Frank Lloyd Wright)
4. is there a download for the textures
5. Very Cool!?.
6. it would be so damn cool if all these were on a whitelisted server. then we could beg admittance, you could carefully screen us, and we could run around the fabulous Wrightscape!
7. Showoff.
   Nice touch.
   Rock On.
   ps. Check out the Douglas Grant House, Frank Lloyd Wright's underrated usonian masterpiece.
8. Spectacular- Thank you so much for yet again another MAGNIFICENT house:-)
9. Another stunning build! Thanks for sharing.
10. 1:44 Stop! Too good Kevin :) Lovely work as usual. Congrats. Another house I'd like to live in. My Ennis House is waiting in the wings. Will be rendered with Octane now.
11. Kevin Shull <---- Artist