Hollywood
— the name the hills wear in white.
Not only on a wall.
“A district of Los Angeles set against the south face of the Hollywood Hills, with nine white letters spelling its name across Mount Lee. Hollywood Boulevard runs the length of it — the Walk of Fame underfoot, the Chinese Theatre's cement handprints, the Capitol Records tower stacked like a record above Vine. The light here is the long late kind, photographed more than any other on Earth. from the studio
Hollywood, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
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The place, in three passes.
Hollywood is a district of the city of Los Angeles, in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains, about 13 kilometres west-northwest of downtown. It was incorporated as its own municipality in 1903 and voted to be annexed by Los Angeles in 1910. The Hollywood Sign sits on the south face of Mount Lee, originally erected in 1923 as a real-estate advertisement reading HOLLYWOODLAND and shortened in 1949. The neighborhood is the historic centre of the American film industry, though most modern studios now lie outside its boundary, in Burbank, Culver City, and Studio City.
The light over the Los Angeles basin is part of why the film industry settled here in the 1910s — long clear days, mild winters, low humidity, and a year-round shooting season the studios could not match in New York or Chicago. The basin sits between the Pacific and the San Gabriel mountains, and through summer and autumn the late-afternoon light reads warm gold-pink against the south-facing hillsides. Cinematographers call the half-hour after sunset the magic hour. The Griffith Observatory, opened in 1935 on the south slope of Mount Hollywood, sits at 350 metres and faces the sign across the canyon.
The Hollywood Walk of Fame runs about 2.1 kilometres along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street, with more than 2,800 brass-and-terrazzo stars laid since 1960. Grauman's Chinese Theatre, opened by Sid Grauman in 1927, holds the cement hand- and footprints of about 200 film figures in its forecourt. The Hollywood Sign itself is fenced and unlit; the closest free public view is from the Lake Hollywood Reservoir or the Griffith Observatory. The Hollywood Bowl, an open-air amphitheatre in Bolton Canyon, has been the Los Angeles Philharmonic's summer home since 1922 and seats about 17,500.