Cleo Baldon

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Cleo Baldon
Baldon in 2007
Born(1927-06-01)June 1, 1927
Leavenworth, Washington
DiedOctober 12, 2014(2014-10-12) (aged 87)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materWoodbury University
OccupationArchitect
SpouseIb Melchior (m. c. 1963)
DesignSwimming pools

Cleo Baldon (June 1, 1927 – October 12, 2014) was an American

Venice, California.[1] Baldon is credited with having a profound effect on the California furniture industry with her outdoor furniture designs.[2]

Biography

Baldon was born in Leavenworth, Washington,[3] but her family lived in the small community of Peshastin, Washington.[2] She moved to California, where she attended and graduated from Woodbury University.[2]

Baldon formed the partnership of Galper-Baldon Associates, a landscape architectural design firm, with Sid Grapher. Baldon oversaw virtually all the projects for Galper-Baldon Associates, with the exception of landscape plantings.

lap pool, which she claimed to have introduced to California in 1970.[1]

Aside from her architectural work, Baldon designed furniture and formed the California company Terra with Galper-Baldon partner Sid Galper. The company manufactured and sold quality outdoor furniture.[2]

Baldon was married, for over 50 years,[4] to novelist, screenwriter and film director Ib Melchior, with whom she co-authored the non-fiction books Reflections on the Pool: California Designs for Swimming and Steps & Stairways. He was the son of operatic tenor and movie star Lauritz Melchior. The couple lived in the Hollywood Hills.[2]

Baldon died on October 12, 2014.[4] Melchior died five months later, on March 14, 2015.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b "The splashiest history". Los Angeles Times. 2007-08-16. Retrieved 2011-10-02.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Designing Women". Los Angeles Times. 1985-02-24. Retrieved 2011-10-02.
  3. ISBN 9780960316625. Retrieved 21 April 2015 – via Google Books
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  4. ^ a b "Cleo Melchoir Obituary". Los Angeles Times. November 11, 2014. Retrieved 2022-12-03.
  5. ^ Barnes, Mike (17 March 2015). "Ib Melchior Dead: 'Robinson Crusoe on Mars' Screenwriter Was 97". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved March 18, 2015.