Although it anchored looks Angeles'...

Although it anchored looks Angeles' "Miracle Mile" for nearly 40 years, the Carnation Building was known more for its oversized r signage than for its exuberant architecture.

The Carnation Co built the nine-story headquarters, located forward Wilshire Boulevard, during the dawn of modernism, a time when the Art Deco motion of earlier decades had all however drawn its last breath. Caught in the crosscurrent of the brace movements, the boxy, concrete edifice referenced principles of both unless belonged to neither.

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