Just a few hundred feet south of the Just Above Sunset headquarters -

Villa d'Este (1355 Laurel Avenue): Italian villas in rural Tuscany inspired architect brothers F. Pierpont Davis and Walter S. Davis when they designed the complex in 1928.  Here, water cascades from the mouths of lions into multiple pools and waterways.

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Idyllic ... and endangered

Steven Barrie-Anthony, Los Angeles Times, June 24, 2004

Preservation ordinances ensure Villa d'Este remains as it is.

The archway in…

Now Villa d'Este is at 1355 Laurel Avenue, and F. Scott Fitzgerald lived out the last years of his life a few doors up the street at 1403 (now the parking structure under the Virgin Megastore and Crunch Gym) – but this is a writer's window if I ever saw one….

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These were shot with a Nikon D70 – lens AF-5 Nikor 18-70mm 1:35-4.5G ED or AF Nikor 70-300mm telephoto.

They were modified for web posting using Adobe Photoshop 7.0

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