Palos Verdes Art Center is pleased to announce Ladd & Kelsey: Noble Places, curated by Kevin Lane of Placewares Projects. The exhibition will be on view February 8 through May 26. The opening reception will be held on February 15 from six to nine p.m. and is open to the public.
Operational from 1959 to 1982, Ladd & Kelsey, Architects’ lack of inclusion in today’s architectural discourse and popular media is in striking contrast to their accomplished body of work that has left a lasting impact on California Modernism and the USC Style. Ladd & Kelsey, Architects created a body of work more elegant in style and formal in rigor than what was culturally popular at midcentury: the post and beam style and Case Study House Program by Arts & Architecture.
The exhibition examines the firm’s wide range of design projects including the Pasadena Art Museum (now known as Norton Simon Museum), and Busch Gardens, as well as public buildings and private residences.
