I spent well over a year walking the backstreets of the Gold coast from Palm Beach to Miami searching for old homes & Motels to document. Most of these homes are now gone or slated for demolition & new development high rise or luxury homes built in their place.The old school timber homes are a thing from the past, stylized wooden awnings & handmade stone walls were popular from the 1940’s through to the 1970’s.Most of these great building were holiday homes either on the beach or one street back on large blocks. Walking is really the only way you find them as they a scattered in between new high rise developments.Clearly there is no government heritage overlay for these...
My wife Jane & I traveled to Southern California in spring of 2016 to visit my aunt Olivia Newton John at her ranch near Santa Barbara. We spent some time visiting the local area & I shot a roll of film around the old motel called the Santa Cota. It was built in 1962 and at the time was closed & boarded up. https://www.brettgoldsmith.com.au/collections/california/products/motor-lodge From there we drove to Palm Springs to attend a wedding of a friend & stayed at the iconic Ace Hotel. This chain of restored motels scattered all over the world are super hip & keep the integrity of the original architecture intact. Some of these photographs from Palm Springs are among my most popular. https://www.brettgoldsmith.com.au/collections/california/products/palm-springs-pool...
