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The Dolores Del Rio House at 757 Kingman Avenue is a house in
Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles Pacific Palisades is a neighborhood in the Westside region of Los Angeles, California, situated about west of Downtown Los Angeles. Pacific Palisades was formally founded in 1921 by a Methodist organization, and in the years that followed bec ...
, that was designed for the Mexican actress Dolores del Río and her husband, the production designer
Cedric Gibbons Austin Cedric Gibbons (March 23, 1890 – July 26, 1960) was an Irish-American art director for the film industry. He also made a significant contribution to motion picture theater architecture from the 1930s to 1950s. Gibbons designed the ...
, by
Douglas Honnold Douglas Honnold (August 17, 1901 – March 14, 1974) was an award-winning Canadian-born American architect. He designed many residential properties and commercial buildings in Los Angeles, California. He won an Honor Award from the Southern Califo ...
and George Vernon Russell in 1929. The side of the house facing the street was likened by ''An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles'' to
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with the rear of the house evoking the International Style. Gibbons designed the interiors of the house, replicating the
Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...
sets that he had created for
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as a production designer. The house has four bedrooms and bathrooms over two storeys with two fireplaces and a large living room with exposed beams within of living space. Unusually, the main living room is situated on the second floor. The house has been featured in '' Architectural Digest'' in April 1992 and March 2008. The 2008 article described the house as a "streamlined love nest". Michael Smith, who restored the house for
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, who owned the house in the 2000s, said that the residence combines "iconic style with highly advanced machine-for-living technical details". The gardens of the house were restored between 1989 and 1993 by Campbell and Campbell. The house overlooks
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. A restoration of the house by the interior designer Madeline Stuart was completed in 2016. The house was sold in 2006 for $2.9 million.


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