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This absolutely amazing architectural home at the base of the Hollywood Hills has style, design, and finishes like nothing you’ve ever seen before. Hidden from the street, next door to the Wattles Gardens, this incredible compound was inspired by Barragan, Neimeyer, and Mexican Colonial architecture.
Built in the early days of the Golden Era of Hollywood and nestled in the Hollywood Heights foothills, Las Orquideas is a compound of five villas consisting of nine units. The property was designed by Cecil B. DeMille’s frequent art director Wilfred Buckland – popularly canonized as Hollywood’s first art director – to resemble the hillside towns of Andalusia. Buckland is quoted as saying, “I came to Hollywood … in search of a chance to visualize a more ‘pictorial’ way, by adapting to film the same rules that govern the higher art of painting.” Las Orquideas, located at 1901 North Orchid Avenue, is exquisitely painterly and altogether movie-magical.
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