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Standard Architecture refreshes interiors of pink Paul Smith store in LA

February 3, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

British fashion label Paul Smith’s iconic pink store in Los Angeles has received an interior makeover from Standard Architecture. Standard Architecture collaborated with the Paul Smith design team to reimagine the 4,740-square-foot (440 square metres) store on Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood. The studios also created a new VIP entrance patio for the building, which is

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Lovers Unite revives interiors of mid-century Silver Lake home

January 28, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

California design studio Lovers Unite has reinvigorated a 1950s home with sweeping views of the Los Angeles hills, turning an unused balcony into an extension of the indoor social space. The wooden dwelling in LA’s Silver Lake neighbourhood belongs to production designer James Chinlund and artist Clare Crespo. A “previously a boring, nondescript mid-century house”,

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Cafe Kitsuné Los Angeles features Parisian-style interiors with “Japanese twist”

January 27, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

Paris-based lifestyle brand Kitsuné has opened a cafe next to its boutique in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, both with minimalist interiors featuring white oak and stainless steel. The interiors of the new Cafe Kitsuné and the renovated Maison Kitsuné store were designed by co-founder Masaya Kuroki to reflect the brand’s French-Japanese culture as well as

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San Francisco exhibition features “off-center” Bay Area furniture design

January 23, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Stools from local designer Caleb Ferris and design firm Prowl Studio were among the works displayed at a San Francisco exhibition centred around contemporary Bay Area design. The Works in Progress show displayed stools, chairs and other furniture from local designers to highlight the diversity in methods and backgrounds of an evolving Bay Area design

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Kilometres of suicide-deterrent nets installed under Golden Gate Bridge

January 18, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

Local studio MacDonald Architects has designed the safety nets recently installed on each side of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco to prevent people from jumping from its sides. Designed by MacDonald Architects on behalf of Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District (GGBHT) – the state district that manages the bridge, the deterrent

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Jialun Xiong highlights “intricacies and textures” at Sichuanese restaurant in LA

January 14, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

Subtle nods to traditional Chinese architecture can be found throughout this restaurant in California, designed by LA-based Jialun Xiong. Sichuan Impression’s third outpost, located in Alhambra, occupies a 2,000-square-foot (186-square-metre) space that “takes an elegantly pared-down approach to family-style dining”. Jialun Xiong took an equally relaxed approach to the interiors, combining warm and soft colours

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Ome Dezin restores 1960s California residence by A Quincy Jones

January 13, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

US studio Ome Dezin has renovated a large mid-century home in Brentwood, California, using a tonal colour palette and maximising the lush hillside views. The six-bedroom 12221 Benmore residence was designed and constructed in 1960 by notable local architects A Quincy Jones and Frederick Emmon. When Jesse Rudolph and Joelle Kutner of Ome Dezin came

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PlayLab Inc centres “space for conversation” in Los Angeles retail store

January 3, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

LA studio PlayLab Inc has created a flagship store that contains a sky blue conversation pit at its centre for local clothing brand MadHappy. PlayLab Inc split the West Hollywood store into two distinct zones – one for retail space and the other for “intimate gathering spaces”, including a cafe and a courtyard. “Our collective

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Farm buildings inform Sonoma ADU by Schwartz and Architecture

January 2, 2024 Jenna McKnight 0

American studio Schwartz and Architecture has completed a cedar-clad accessory dwelling unit on a California property that is meant to serve as “a jumping off point for a modern wine country design”. The Diamond ADU is part of a family estate in Sonoma, a historic town in northern California’s winemaking region. The property has a

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Artistree raises a telescopic treehouse in California

December 27, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

US company Artistree Home designed a treehouse with vaulted form, raised off the ground in Sonoma County, California. Completed in 2023, the latest design — known as Spyglass by Hometree — is a 300-square foot (28-square-metre) residence in an 11-acre (5-hectare) forested lot in Occidental, California. “The design for Spyglass came from that whimsical childhood

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