Wallace Neff's work is not widely known outside of Southern California, but its been a great inspiration to me over the years. Neff worked in the decades between 1920 and the early '50s and created a body of work that is highly eclectic but always beautiful. He was a master at adapting Mediterranean and other historical precedents to the California landscape and lifestyle. His work is considered the epitome of the "California Style" that flowered in the years before Modernism swept historicist Architecture aside. But Neff wasn't a doctrinaire historicist at all. Where appropriate he was just as comfortable forging ahead with completely new ideas- as in the unique "Airform" structures he pioneered in the post-war period.
His beautiful homes seem to be more popular now than ever before, prized by Hollywood luminaries and design connoisseurs alike.
Amazing tribute website by Neff's son (check out the "Portfolio")
People Magazine article- I don't think I could say it any better than this!
Pickfair
Airform House
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