About the Event:
Join us as scholar and historian Christopher Long focuses on little-known German-born architect and designer Jock Peters (1889–1934), whose groundbreaking interiors indelibly shaped both Art Deco and modernism in California.
Peters immigrated to the United States in 1922, and much of his career focused on the interior design of retail stores and other commercial and residential interiors, primarily on the West Coast. Among his most prominent projects were the Bullocks Wilshire department store in Los Angeles, the sales offices for the short-lived Maddux Air Lines, and the New York clothing retailer Hollander, as well as film sets for Famous Pictures–Lasky (later Paramount Pictures).
Long uses the Peters family archive and other research to demonstrate how Peters left his mark on the modernist landscape in Southern California.
Even though this event is online, it will include a live PowerPoint — with wonderful images that you will be able to see directly on your computer screen, tablet, or mobile device — as well as a Q&A session with participants.
Can’t join us at the time of the live event? No problem! Those who register will receive a recording of the entire program a few days after the live presentation. When you sign up for the program you have the opportunity to watch, or rewatch, the recording at a time more convenient for your schedule.
About the Speaker:
Christopher Long is Martin S. Kermacy Centennial Professor of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. He has taught in Vienna and Prague, and has written or contributed to more than fifty publications on modern architectural history, including groundbreaking studies on Adolf Loos, Josef Frank, Paul T. Frankl, and Kem Weber.
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