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 [...]

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 [...]

Sam Moyer’s prowess with wood is evident by the absence of screws, nails, and metal in his hand-made modern pieces. You can also admire him for infusing his furniture with the raw beauty of conscience as he works primarily with reclaimed and surplus lumber from restoration projects. All the wood he uses has [...]

Parks Dept. 47-B
While running a product design studio that also creates Limited Edition pieces available to galleries, museums and collectors, Shawn-Ian Bruce has attracted international acclaim for his functional and conceptual handcrafted furniture designs. ‘Push-Over’, a stool with six different heights depending on how you turn it over, is composed from one seamless piece of [...]