Our annual meeting is a time to gather for an update on ADSLA’s achievements in 2023 and a preview of where it is going in the new year. Following a 30 minute meeting with ADSLA’s board of directors, we will offer a presentation on the impending preservation of the exterior of the Earl Carroll Theatre.
You’ve heard the chimes ringing out over Catalina Island. Now check out the Chimes Tower up close on a special visit to the tower to see this percussion instrument work. This tour is offered on May 12, 13 & 14.
On this walking tour to enjoy Catalina tile, author and artist Ronald Smith introduces you to the Vintage Tiles, hidden amongst all the contemporary tiles, which were made on the Island with clay found on the Island from 1927–1937. This tour is offered on May 13 & 14.
You’ve heard the chimes ringing out over Catalina Island. Now check out the Chimes Tower up close on a special visit to the tower to see this percussion instrument work. This tour is offered on May 12, 13 & 14.
On this walking tour to enjoy Catalina tile, author and artist Ronald Smith introduces you to the Vintage Tiles, hidden amongst all the contemporary tiles, which were made on the Island with clay found on the Island from 1927–1937. This tour is offered both May 13 & 14.
You’ve heard the chimes ringing out over Catalina Island. Now check out the Chimes Tower up close on a special visit to the tower to see this percussion instrument work. This tour is offered on May 12, 13 & 14.
Take a virtual tour of Catalina Island’s historic tile with author and artist Ronald Smith. We will see the tile and learn about the production of tile on Catalina. Island in the Art Deco era.
Art Deco World Congresses are back! The Miami Design Preservation League and the Art Deco Society of the Palm Beaches will host the 2023 Congress in April. To give us a talk on Miami Art Deco architecture, as well as a preview of the upcoming gathering of Art Deco organizations from around the world, is Jack Johnson, Chair of the Miami Preservation League.
Our annual meeting is a time to gather for an update on ADSLA’s achievements in 2022 and a preview of where it is going in the new year. Following a 30 minute meeting with ADSLA’s board of directors, we will turn the mic over to Miami Preservation League Chair Jack Johnson, for a talk on Art Deco Miami, in anticipation of the April 2023 World Congress in Florida.
November 2022 marks the centennial of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, so we have invited Colleen (aka the Vintage Egyptologist) and John Darnell to give a virtual illustrated presentation to commemorate the occasion. This talk also coincides with the release of their latest book EGYPT'S GOLDEN COUPLE: WHEN AKHENATEN AND NEFERTITI WERE GODS ON EARTH, published by St. Martin's Press
For the first time in over a decade, downtown Los Angeles’s 1928 architectural jewel —the Oviatt Building’s famed Art Deco penthouse— will open its doors to the ADSLA for an exclusive historical tour. Our guide will be ADSLA board member and longtime Oviatt Building historian Marc Chevalier, sharing anecdotes and secrets you won’t find in print. Enjoy a rare, in-person opportunity to see every room of this remarkably preserved penthouse through the eyes of its most knowledgeable historian.
For the first time in over a decade, downtown Los Angeles’s 1928 architectural jewel —the Oviatt Building’s famed Art Deco penthouse— will open its doors to the ADSLA for an exclusive historical tour. Our guide will be ADSLA board member and longtime Oviatt Building historian Marc Chevalier, sharing anecdotes and secrets you won’t find in print. Enjoy a rare, in-person opportunity to see every room of this remarkably preserved penthouse through the eyes of its most knowledgeable historian.
Join us for a virtual book talk with Christopher Long, author of “Jock Peters | The Varieties of Modernism Architecture and Design. Peters is best known in Los Angeles for the Bullocks Wilshire interiors that he designed., but he also had a stint in the fledgling motion picture industry. Soon after Peters immigrated to America in 1922, he became a set designer for Famous Players-Lasky (later Paramount Pictures), working under the famed Hans Dreier. In 1927,
