Sam Nazarian’s newest Los Angeles venture, the SLS Hotel (which stands for Style Luxury Service), is the first hotel where Philippe Starck’s design is omnipresent in every detail. The Bazaar, the public open space lobby, offers shopping in the Moss gift shop, dining at Jose Andres’ four-star restaurant, socializing with friends in Bar Centro or [...]

Marsea GoldbergThis year has seen the premature deaths of modest but mighty Los Angeles galleries like d.e.n. contemporary, The Lab 101, and Gallery Revisited.  Though our current economic crisis has unfortunately seeped into the visual arts, some spaces have been fortunate enough to dodge the bullets.  But perhaps it’s not just luck that gives these [...]

Alexandra Becket
Textile designer Alexandra Becket creates one-of-a-kind prints for the home décor and fashion industries. Her wall hangings, paintings and limited edition home décor accessories have been featured in many Los Angeles showrooms. She has also exhibited her hand-painted dividing screens at Molly Barnes’ Gallery in Santa Monica. Recently, she launched a collection inspired [...]

The Design Divo Cuts Deep then Goes Soft for the Kress
Kress, HollywoodYou’d think the Fredericks of Hollywood’s garish lavender and purple ‘makeover’ to this 1935 masterpiece of American Moderne architecture was enough design atrocity for one building to take. Like a former beauty queen with a botched face-lift, the punishment continues with the [...]

Swopper®
German industrial designer and former head of custom furniture design firm dTank, Henner Jahns specializes in creating flagship products that tell compelling stories. Jahns, along with partner James Benton, heads the Arts District-based Gecco Vision. The firm’s main focus and strength is designing ergonomic and fitness products, which follow a philosophy they call “living in [...]