Pellissier Building

The Pellissier Building is an Art-deco skyscraper designed by Morgan, Walls & Clements and built in 1931 in Los Angeles, CA.

Pellissier Building is not the only name you might know this building by though. The building is, or has also been known as Wiltern Center.

Its precise street address is 3780 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA. You can also find it on the map here.

The Pellissier Building is a structure of significant importance both for the city of Los Angeles and the United States as a nation. The building embodies the distinctive characteristic features of the time in which it was built and the Art Deco style. Because of that, the Pellissier Building was officially included in the National Register of Historic Places on February 23^rd 1979, and was also included in the Los Angeles Register of Historic Places on May 16^th 1973.

The building underwent a major restoration between 1983 and 1985. The architect commissioned to undertake this restoration was Brenda Levin.

Morgan, Walls & Clements was the architecture firm in charge of the architectural design.

But that's not all, there was also a whole team of architects involved, which included: Gino Rossetti, Levin and Associates, and Octavius Weller Morgan.

Morgan, Walls & Clements and the other architects already mentioned were in charge of the architectural design, however, architecture is a complex discipline, which usually involves many professionals from different fields, without whom this building would have not been possible. We will surely be leaving out a lot of names here, but here is a list of the people we do know also played their part in making the Pellissier Building a reality:

• William Simpson Construction Company as the Main Contractor
• Henry De Roulet as the Main Developer
• Heinsbergen Decorating Company in charge of Interior Design
• Antoon B. Heinsbergen as the collaborating Artist

The Pellissier Building can be categorized as an Art-deco building.

The Pellissier Building was completed in 1931, right when the Art Deco movement was at its peak, so it kind of went with the trend at that time.

The Pellissier Building uses a frame structure made of steel columns and slabs.

A frame structure uses a combination of beams and columns to sustain the building's weight. The walls in this case are non-load bearing, which allows for more flexibility when distributing the interior spaces.

From an aesthetic point of view, the facade features a turquoise terra cotta cladding. Even though the color has been often refered as "Pellissier Green", it is similar to the one found at the Eastern Columnbia Building finished just one year before. The facade also has geometric and foliage ornamentation typical of the art-deco sytle throught the facade, particularly on the spandrels.