Founded in Pasadena by Swiss/British product designer Dominic Symons and Indonesian graphic designer Melissa Sunjaya-Symons as a multidisciplinary design studio, “the studio now designs, manufactures, and distributes simple solutions to daily problems with a constant drive to transform even the most everyday items into objects of desire.” It sounds a tad all-encompassing but [...]

Fashion by Los Angeles Designers

Photography by Anyes Galleani
Featuring model Ania Altit and actor Charles F. Porter
Hair & make-up by Nancy Jambazian
Styling by Paula Tabalipa

SPF:A // MODAA
The colorful glow of the MODAA building is hard to miss as it illuminates an entire block on Washington Boulevard on any given evening in Culver City. Designed by Studio Pali Fekete architects or SPF:a, the building is a microcosm of the perfect world. Meet friends for a Blue Basil Mojito and [...]

A genius architectural masterpiece of unobstructed space within a space, Royal T is LA’s first Japanese style ‘cosplay’ (short for costume play) café, shop and art space. Get lost in a fantasy land of Susan Hancock’s modern Japanese art collection encased in Lucite walls while enjoying high tea served by Japanese servers frocked in [...]

Gregg Fleishman, a creative Culver City icon for over thirty-two years, is like the Einstein of furniture designers. Fleishman, sporting a worn baseball cap and an unassuming flannel shirt, truly is a genius craftsman using geometry and function as his guide. (He’s even invented a new word: Rhombicube) His colorful futuristic and eco-friendly European [...]