Original Condition (Victor Gruen, The Rosenstiel/Augunas Residence, 1950/2005)
Dorit Margreiter
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 6.7 x 5.7 cm, framed 31.5 x 23.5 cm
GF0030731.05.0-2007
Artwork text
The advertisements document the sale of a villa by the Austrian architect Victor Gruen in the Los Angeles Times between fall 2005 and spring 2006. Victor Gruen, who had to emi-grate to New York, is the inventor of the shopping mall.