Tag Archives: Los Angeles
Resolution: Reconsider the Bookstore
By Regina Connell. It’s time we rediscover the bookstore, for real. There’s something magical about them: they’re doorways to discovery, dreaming, new possibilities. They’re not just about expanding your head: they’re about expanding your psyche, your soul, maybe even changing … Continue reading
Posted in BOOKS, Box 1, CONSIDERED PLEASURES, IDEAS, THE RITUALS
Tagged Assouline, bookbinding, books, bookstores, Coffey, Collecting, Daunt, Economist, Gensler, HennessyIngalls, London, Los Angeles, MFK Fisher, Mysterious Bookshop, New York, New York Times, Omnivore, One Grand, San Francisco, William Stout
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Noticed: Molecule-Designing the Unseen
By Regina M. Connell. Fifth Floor Gallery, located in LA, is one of our favorite galleries. Robert Apodaca, who founded and runs the gallery, has a commitment to making (since he is a maker himself) an unfailing instinct for what’s … Continue reading
Posted in Box 1, Galleries + Museums, THE NEW LUXURY, THE PLACES
Tagged Art and Olfaction Awards, Fifth Floor Gallery, I.A.O., Institute for Art and Olfaction, LA, Los Angeles, Mandy Aftel, Micah Hahn, Robert Apodaca, Saskia Wilson-Brown
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Profile: Leslie Shapiro Joyal
By Anna Hoeschen. If you grew up driving down Sunset Boulevard, running your toes along the edge of the Pacific, or exploring L.A.’s neighborhood haunts, you’d learn an endurance—an appreciation impervious to Hollywood veneer. In a city known for its … Continue reading
Posted in Box 1, FURNITURE+LIGHTING, HOME, THE CREATORS, THE GOODS, WOOD
Tagged 407 Furniture, Bench, DESIGN, furniture, HOME, LA, Leslie Shapiro Joyal, Los Angeles, Sofa, Table
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The Big Picture: All the Action’s at the Auction
By Regina M. Connell. All images courtesy of Bonhams. The auction business is the Grace Kelly of the art world: glamorous but mysterious; beautiful but slightly forbidding. Not surprisingly, people are intensely curious, but engage awkwardly, hesitantly—or not at all. … Continue reading
Posted in Box 1, HOME, IDEAS, MAVENS, THE BIG PICTURE, THE GOODS, THE PLACES
Tagged auction, Bonhams, decorative arts, furniture, Katie Nartonis, Los Angeles
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