Original Condition (Victor Gruen, The Rosenstiel/Augunas Residence, 1950/2005)

Dorit Margreiter Choy
Original Condition (Victor Gruen, The Rosenstiel/Augunas Residence, 1950/2005), 2006
Part of the installation excerpt from a magazine, [USD 4,250,000, (Crosby Doe)], color, dry mounted on card board 7.6 x 7.7 cm, framed 31.5 x 23.5 cm
GF0030731.06.0-2007
Artwork text
The advertisements document the sale of a villa by Austrian architect Victor Gruen in the Los Angeles Times between fall 2005 and spring 2006. Victor Gruen, who had to emigrate to New York in 1938, is considered the inventor of the shopping mall.