It's an art and design weekend coming up with artwalks tomorrow in both Culver City and West Hollywood (see poster, left). Check out what's au courant, and support local designers, artists and retailers. Also, in the evening a show opens at the Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA) that offers a very intriguing eye on Los Angeles: "Benny Chan: Traffic" is a display of very large prints of helicopter-eye images of LA traffic by architectural photographer Benny Chan, who finds the beauty in freeways and traffic snarls, from a distance. The show opens along with an exhibit of Edith Heath ceramics and two painting shows (Annie Lapin and Five UC Davis faculty of the mid-1960s, including Wayne Thiebaud).
A quick update on that billboard blight: The Planning and Land Use Management committee did indeed approve a new sign ordinance which means it will now go before LA's City Council. Read more at Curbed LA. ~Alissa
Many of the region's top furniture and decor stores serving the high-end interior design community are to be found on or near La Boulevard. This weekend they've pooled their energies to throw a three day festival: "Legends of La Cienega Design Walk: A Three-Day Celebration of the Galleries and Shops of Los Angeles." In addition to store openings, there'll be lectures celebrating today’s interior design luminaries as well as past greats like Tony Duquette and Elsie de Wolfe. Speakers include James Magni, David Phoenix, Suzanne Rheinstein, Madeleine Stuart and Martin Lawrence-Bullard. Add to that, spring-summer fashion collections by Carolina Herrera, Trina Turk, and Alexander McQueen will also be on show. For more information go to http://www.lcdqla.com.This Friday morning James Magni (AD 100), John Finton, and Richard Landry (AD 100) discuss "going global" at Rose Tarlow, then David Phoenix will discuss "Selling Quality Design in the Age of Fast Food Junk Decorating." See his slow food decorating in the pic, above and below.
Upcycling: Recuperating Past Lives
For a completely different interpretation of "fast food junk" products head to A+D Museum, in its new, and hopefully, permanent location at Whilshire and Fairfax (see Architect's Newspaper article by Sam Lubell for more on the move), where it is hosting a three week "pop-up" show of design and fine art made of trash or industrial materials, such as apples made of shredded credit card bills and an undulating wall hanging fashioned out of raw wood veneers. While to some extent the show -- entitled Upcycling: Recuperating Past Lives -- offers a critique of consumer culture, it is largely an aesthetic exploration, with artists (including some big names like Brazil's Campana brothers and LA's Greg Lynn, both "upcycling" children's toys in imaginative ways) looking to make lovely forms out of unlovely or banales material...
Probably LA's biggest contribution to architectural history is its residential design (think Irving Gill, Rudolf Schindler, Greene and Greene, Frank Lloyd Wright, Wallace Neff, Gerard Colcord, John Lautner, Cliff May, Frank Gehry, the list goes on and on. . .), and a new generation of architects is continuing to test ideas here. On Sunday, you can get to peek inside some of the recent creations on the Westside, on the AIA self-guided tour, The Herron Residence by Michael Lee Architects (Michael Lee, AIA), King Residence by John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects (John Friedman, FAIA; Alice Kimm, AIA), Painted Light Studio by by Jennfier Wen Architecture (Jennifer Wen, AIA), and Venice Prefab by Jennifer Siegal of OMD are the four homes that will be showcased on the May 3rd AIA/LA Spring Tour. Tickets are NO LONGER available via web, so there is no relevant address. Tickets are available only by physically going to WILL CALL between 11:00AM and 1:00PM.
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