Max Factor Salon, the Glossary
The Max Factor Salon, formerly the Hollywood Fire Safe Building and also known as the Max Factor Building, is a historic four-story building located at 1666 N. Highland Avenue, Hollywood, California, just south of Hollywood Boulevard.[1]
Table of Contents
48 relations: Aluminium, Arch, Art Deco, Beauty salon, Bette Davis, Brick, Bronze, Chandelier, Classical Hollywood cinema, Claudette Colbert, Contributing property, Copper, Cosmetics, Crystal, Disney's Hollywood Studios, Faux painting, Garland, Highland Avenue (Los Angeles), Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District, Hollywood Museum, Hollywood Regency, Hollywood, Los Angeles, I Love Lucy, Jean Harlow, Lana Turner, Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument, Lucie Arnaz, Lucille Ball, Marble, Max Factor, Medallion (architecture), Mel's Drive-In, Metal casting, National Register of Historic Places, Pastel, Pewter, Pilaster, Procter & Gamble, Regency architecture, Relief, Rita Hayworth, S. Charles Lee, Stucco, Trompe-l'œil, Universal Studios Florida, Wing (building).
Aluminium
Aluminium (Aluminum in North American English) is a chemical element; it has symbol Al and atomic number 13.
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Arch
An arch is a curved vertical structure spanning an open space underneath it.
Art Deco
Art Deco, short for the French Arts décoratifs, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in Paris in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920s to early 1930s.
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Beauty salon
A beauty salon or beauty parlor is an establishment that provides cosmetic treatments for people.
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Bette Davis
Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was an American actress of film, television, and theater.
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Brick
A brick is a type of construction material used to build walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction.
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Bronze
Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals, such as phosphorus, or metalloids, such as arsenic or silicon.
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Chandelier
A chandelier is an ornamental lighting device, typically with spreading branched supports for multiple lights, designed to be hung from the ceiling.
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Classical Hollywood cinema
Classical Hollywood cinema is a term used in film criticism to describe both a narrative and visual style of filmmaking that first developed in the 1910s to 1920s during the later years of the silent film era.
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Claudette Colbert
Émilie ChauchoinTranslation of this quotation: " Birth certificate of Chauchoin Émilie, female, born on September 13 running at 8 o'clock in the morning at her father and mother’s home, rue Armand-Carrel.
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Contributing property
In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic district significant.
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Copper
Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu and atomic number 29.
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Cosmetics
Cosmetics are composed of mixtures of chemical compounds derived from either natural sources or synthetically created ones.
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Crystal
A crystal or crystalline solid is a solid material whose constituents (such as atoms, molecules, or ions) are arranged in a highly ordered microscopic structure, forming a crystal lattice that extends in all directions.
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Disney's Hollywood Studios
Disney's Hollywood Studios is a theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida, near Orlando.
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Faux painting
Faux painting or faux finishing are terms used to describe decorative paint finishes that replicate the appearance of materials such as marble, wood or stone.
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Garland
A garland is a decorative braid, knot or wreath of flowers, leaves, or other material.
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Highland Avenue (Los Angeles)
Highland Avenue is a north–south road in Los Angeles. Max Factor Salon and Highland Avenue (Los Angeles) are los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments.
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Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood Boulevard is a major east–west street in Los Angeles, California.
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Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District
Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District consists of twelve blocks between the 6200 and 7000 blocks of Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, California.
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Hollywood Museum
The Hollywood Museum is a museum located at North Highland Avenue in the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States, houses a collection of memorabilia from the history of American motion pictures and television.
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Hollywood Regency
Hollywood Regency, sometimes called Regency Moderne, is a design style that describes both interior design and landscape architecture characterized by the bold use of color and contrast often with metallic and glass accents meant to signify both opulence and comfort.
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Hollywood, Los Angeles
Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles County, California, mostly within the city of Los Angeles.
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I Love Lucy
I Love Lucy is an American television sitcom that originally aired on CBS from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957, with a total of 180 half-hour episodes spanning six seasons.
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Jean Harlow
Jean Harlow (born Harlean Harlow Carpenter; March 3, 1911 – June 7, 1937) was an American actress.
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Lana Turner
Julia Jean "Lana" Turner (February 8, 1921June 29, 1995) was an American actress.
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Los Angeles County, California
Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles (Condado de Los Ángeles), and sometimes abbreviated as L.A. County, is the most populous county in the United States, with 9,861,224 residents estimated in 2022.
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Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments are sites which have been designated by the Los Angeles, California, Cultural Heritage Commission as worthy of preservation based on architectural, historic and cultural criteria. Max Factor Salon and Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument are buildings and structures in Los Angeles, history of Los Angeles and los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments.
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Lucie Arnaz
Lucie Désirée Arnaz (born July 17, 1951) is an American actress and singer.
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Lucille Ball
Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an American actress, comedian, producer, and studio executive.
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Marble
Marble is a metamorphic rock consisting of carbonate minerals (most commonly calcite (CaCO3) or dolomite (CaMg(CO3)2)) that have crystallized under the influence of heat and pressure.
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Max Factor
Max Factor is a line of cosmetics from Coty, founded in 1909 as Max Factor & Company by Maksymilian Faktorowicz.
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Medallion (architecture)
A medallion is a round or oval ornament that frames a sculptural or pictorial decoration in any context, but typically a façade, an interior, a monument, or a piece of furniture or equipment.
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Mel's Drive-In
Mel's Drive-In is a term referring to two American restaurant chains, the successors of a restaurant founded in 1947 by Mel Weiss and Harold Dobbs in San Francisco, California.
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In metalworking and jewelry making, casting is a process in which a liquid metal is delivered into a mold (usually by a crucible) that contains a negative impression (i.e., a three-dimensional negative image) of the intended shape.
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National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value".
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Pastel
A pastel is an art medium that consist of powdered pigment and a binder.
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Pewter
Pewter is a malleable metal alloy consisting of tin (85–99%), antimony (approximately 5–10%), copper (2%), bismuth, and sometimes silver.
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Pilaster
In architecture, a pilaster is both a load-bearing section of thickened wall or column integrated into a wall, and a purely decorative element in classical architecture which gives the appearance of a supporting column and articulates an extent of wall.
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Procter & Gamble
The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) is an American multinational consumer goods corporation headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, founded in 1837 by William Procter and James Gamble.
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Regency architecture
Regency architecture encompasses classical buildings built in the United Kingdom during the Regency era in the early 19th century when George IV was Prince Regent, and also to earlier and later buildings following the same style.
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Relief
Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces remain attached to a solid background of the same material.
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Rita Hayworth
Rita Hayworth (born Margarita Carmen Cansino; October 17, 1918May 14, 1987) was an American actress, dancer, and pin-up girl.
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S. Charles Lee
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Stucco
Stucco or render is a construction material made of aggregates, a binder, and water.
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Trompe-l'œil
paren) is an artistic term for the highly realistic optical illusion of three-dimensional space and objects on a two-dimensional surface. Trompe l'œil, which is most often associated with painting, tricks the viewer into perceiving painted objects or spaces as real. Forced perspective is a related illusion in architecture.
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Universal Studios Florida
Universal Studios Florida is a theme park located in Orlando, Florida, that opened on June 7, 1990.
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Wing (building)
A wing is part of a building – or any feature of a building – that is subordinate to the main, central structure.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Factor_Salon
Also known as Max Factor Building.