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Baldon, Cleo was born on June 1, 1927 in Leavenworth, Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Daughter of Ernest Elsworth and Esther Jane (Hannan) Chute.
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Baldon, Cleo was born on June 1, 1927 in Leavenworth, Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Daughter of Ernest Elsworth and Esther Jane (Hannan) Chute.
She moved to California, where she attended and graduated from Woodbury University.
She worked as the design director of Galper-Baldon Associates, headquartered in Venice, California. Baldon is credited with having a profound effect on the California furniture industry with her outdoor furniture designs. Baldon oversaw virtually all the projects for Galper-Baldon Associates, with the exception of landscape plantings.
In 1985, Baldon told the Los Angeles Times that "I don"t understand plants." Her partner Sid Galper was the horticulturist.
Baldon designed over 3,000 swimming pools in Southern California and held a design patent for the contour spa with ergonomic underwater seating. She has been credited with the development of the lap pool, which she claimed to have introduced to California in 1970.
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.
Baldon was married 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. Baldon died on October 12, 2014. Baldon"s husband Melchior died on March 14, 2015 at the age of 97.
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Member American Institute Landscape Architects (Merit award 1999), American Society Landscape Architects.
Married Lewis Smith Baldon, November 20, 1948 (divorced July 1961). 1 child, Dirk; married Ib Jørgen Melchior, January 18, 1964. 1 stepson, Leif Melchior.
