wandrlust – discover the undiscovered

I didn’t know what to make of it. While trying to get on the I-10 from Western, I did a double take thinking I saw a building, no less what looked like a club, with the same textile block pattern from Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis-Brown House. I had never heard of a Frank Lloyd Wright building in the area so I decided to investigate.

The building, which is now a shuttered Korean Night Club named La Prive (which according to my translator means deprives … of a good time?), did indeed use the same textile block pattern from the Ennis-Brown House (which can also be seen in Blade Runner, The House on Haunted Hill, and to my surprise in a more haphazardly thrown together fashion, Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Doulos). La Prive itself was also used as the club in Collateral but it’s main claim to fame was being a place Nic Cage liked to go to pick up on Korean chicks and where he met his current wife… fascinating.

I am not sure about how the blocks were acquired (I am guessing they made them? Poorly…) and it is probably some kind of trademark infringement. Nonetheless, despite these blocks, this is clearly not an FLW building and with the $10 million needed for the Ennis renovation maybe they can scrounge some blocks from this place.

Deprives is located at: 721 S. Western, Los Angeles, CA 90005