Land+Living: Harwell Harris

News — August 12, 2004 Posted by James

"The door-to-door connection: A group of Angelenos finds a common link: They live in the small, distinctive homes designed by little-known Modernist architect Harwell Harris."

An article by Janet Eastman in the Los Angeles Times covers the homes of lesser known California modernist architect, Harwell Harris.

Harris, who designed houses in Southern California in the 1930s through 1950s, merged elements of Greene & Greene's Arts and Crafts style such as wood, bold roof overhangs and Japanese influences with Modernism's lean lines and liberal use of glass. His small houses showcase walls of windows and see-through doors in every room.

Link: LA Times (with images)

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David Sox — April 16, 2005
I grew up in a Harwell Harris home

My father selected Harris to design our house, at 76 Ridgeview Drive, Atherton, because he couldn't afford FL Wright. One day, on his way to his granddaughter's (Ann Baxter) wedding in 1947, he remarked that "that's one of my homes." When told it was H.H. Harris, he said, well, that almost the same. Does anyone familiar with H.H. Harris know who designed many of the tables in his houses. I know my parents selected most of their furniture from Harris's preferences. I know he chose the woven grass rugs, we had them, and I've KEM Weber chairs in his houses, I have one of the two in ours, but the light birch (?) dining table had legs that were 90-degree angle wood panels and the coffee table had X shaped legs, also solid wood. I want to buy one or recreate it.