WJ Dodd ~ Interior Design: Artifice, Ambience & Ornamentation

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This page of the WJ Dodd website features details of Dodd-designed interiors. It has been established that Dodd designed ceramics and furniture for some of his structures and, in California, included landscape design in his projects. [See links to "T. Chalmers Vint" or "Lloyd Wright Jr." below]. Click Pics to enlarge.

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"Waterlily" Zinc and Art Glass window emblem. Second floor bath: Hoyt Gamble House. The house designed by Dodd in 1912. Louisville, KY. Photo courtesy of Daniel White. It is not clear to what extent Dodd may have contributed to the design of, or participated in the choice of light fixtures, art glass windows and other modes of accessorizing the homes & buildings of clients, around 1910, zenith of the American Arts & Crafts and Prairie School period.



Landscape Designers associated with Dodd in Los Angeles.

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Thomas Chalmers Vint

Lloyd Wright Jr.

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"Water Iris" 2-sash Zinc & Art Glass. Rear 2nd floor bath. THGamble House Photo: DWhite

"Three Oriental Lanterns"
Zinc caming and Iridized glass;
Front hall window panels. T H
Gamble House, Louisville, KY
Photo: CTWhite

"Cane Brake" 2-sash Zinc
& Art Glass. Rear stairs.
Gamble House. Executed by
Richard Miller.
Louisville.

"Oriental Lanterns"
Zinc and Iridized Glass; Front
door panel. THoyt Gamble House. Photo:CWhite

Detail of abstract "Wishing Jewel"
emblem from oriel window panels;
front stair landing. Gamble House.
Louisville. Photo: D. White

2 of 4 oriel panels;
front stairs. Zinc & Iridized
glass. Gamble House.
Photo: CTWhite

 

Detail of Lantern emblem
from front door panel
Zinc & Iridized Glass.
Gamble House.
Louisville, KY
Photo: D. White

 

Children's reading room, Hollywood Branch Library 1923, Los Angeles. Note decorative tiles & custom reading tables encircling pillars & Mission fireplace.

Before & After: Hollywood Branch
Library facing Hollywood Blvd ca 1922
and later in 1939 moved, remodeled &
turned to face Ivar St. Destoyed 1939.
Mission design by Dodd & Richards
ca 1922. Photo courtesy of LA Public Library.

c. 1923 Hollywood Branch Library Main Reading Room and Circulation, off main entrance from Hollywood Blvd. Photo: Dwyer Studio; Courtesy of Los Angeles Public Library.

 

Before & After: the garden fountain at Hollywood Branch Library ca 1922 and in 1939 after library was moved & remodeled; fountain was relocated to front entrance of new library. Demolished 1939. Left image by Miles Berne. Courtesy of LA Public Library.

 

1 of 6 bay panels, Zinc
& Iridized glass. Lotus
motif woodcarving.
THGamble House.
Photo: CTWhite

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Wood Lattice adorns
ceiling & walls of conservatory.
Zinc, copper & hammered art-glass lantern.
Gamble House, Louisville.
Photo: CTWhite

Mantel: red mahogany
& Rookwood tiles.
Original Quezal sconces,
chandelier and amber shades.
Formal dining room.
THoyt Gamble House.
Dodd-designed 1912.
Louisville. Photo: CTWhite

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Interior of Daisy Canfield
House: the original Bel Air.
LA, CA. Dodd-designed
1915. Photo courtesy of
Jeanne Huntington Cullen.

Original Atherton Bldg. Lobby woodwork.
Dodd-designed 1901. Louisville
Photo: Douglas Fowley c. 1980
Courtesy of Library of Congress

1911 Library in Home of W.J. Dodd
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St. James Court, Louisville KY

Photo from Kentucky A.I.A.
Exhibition Book. Mantel is
Italian marble; symbols may
be crypto-masonic designs.

"Waterlilies" Teco Jardiniere. Dodd-design introduced in Gates Potteries catalogue ca 1902. h 10" x w 11". Photo courtesy of Treadway Galleries.

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Original, rare watercolor, ca 1896, of a gentlemens club room or, perhaps, the Dodd-designed Louisville Liederkranz Hall. Signed: "~W.J. Dodd & Arthur Cobb~ Architects". Photo: courtesy of owner.

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Teco Cut Flower Vase, Dodd- designed for Gates Potteries. h 11" x w 4". Photo courtesy of Treadway Galleries.

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