LOS ANGELES DESIGN ARTS & CULTURE PROFILES TRENDS EVERYTHING ELSE Sea Change - Design Destination: Memories of beach-infused summers fuel architect Gulla Jónsdóttir’s reimagining of the Sandbourne Santa Monica (CA Home + Design) Two Home Design Fests Take Over L.A. This Month - The Inaugural Design Miami heads to LA and LCDQ, the design quarter's annual event honors Pamela Shamshiri (The Hollywood Reporter) The Hottest Restaurants & Hotels in Palm Springs Right Now - Just in time for Modernism Week, our annual roundup of what's new in the eternally cool desert getaway (The Hollywood Reporter) Back in Blue - Fettle Design, in conjunction with BLVD Hospitality and ESI Ventures, jolts The Georgian, Santa Monica's iconic blue hotel, out of the doldrums and into its rightful place as a hot spot (CA Home + Design) Members Only - With the help of interior designer Martin Brudnizki, Heimat bedazzles the old skool gym, reinventing it a sleek, sexy, colorful athletic center (Interiors) We're No Longer Cooking With Gas - Hollywood embraces Induction Cooking Jaqui Seerman transforms the dark lobby of the former Nomad Hotel into the welcoming Per L'Ora (CA Home + Design) The Parisian Pearl - Caviar Kaspia touches down in the City of Angeles and the result is heavenly (CA Home + Design) These 11 New Design Shops in LA Radiate Star Style (The Hollywood Reporter) Queer Eye's Bobby Berk shares his favorite spots in Palm Springs (The Hollywood Reporter) Green Right - Steve Pallrand of CarbonShack shares the steps - and products - for living carbon-free (CA Home + Design) The Marathon Continues - Demar Matthew's envisions a series of case study homes built in Black neighborhoods and celebrating Black culture (CA Home + Design) Living In: West Adams, Los Angeles - Prices rise with the neighborhood’s increasing popularity (NY Times) Style - L.A.’s latest crop of design shops, hotels and restaurants (The Hollywood Reporter) Mediteranean Dreams - Restauranteur Nick Mathers brings his love of the Greek islands to Kassi Club (Angeleno) Retail Rebirth - Tara Riceberg reinvents the family business for a new era (Angeleno) Creating A Modern Agency Aesthetic - Paradigm Agency reinvents an iconic building for a collaborative and award-winning future (The Hollywood Reporter) Flower Power - After conquering Japan and seducing European fashion designers, Danish floral designer Niccolai Bergmann sets his sights on the States (Angeleno) Sweet Dreams Are Made of This - h Club is a gathering spot with a message and a mission (Angeleno) h Club Rising - The splashy new social club for creatives offers a striking new perspective on Hollywood (Design LA) Design, Bitches' rethinking of a Masonic lodge as Checker Hall in Highland Park grabs the 2019 Award for Restaurant Design (CA Home + Design) Hispanic Design, Refined - Atacama Home pops up at ROW DTLA, redefining artisanal crafts from Latin America, Portugal and Spain (Interiors CA) Post-mudslides, Montecito Roars Back - The grand reopening of the Rosewood Miramar attests to the dramatic rebuild of Santa Barbara (The Hollywood Reporter) X Marks The Spot - Desert X’s second itineration expands, physically and metaphorically, to cover the entire Coachella Valley (Angeleno) True Hollywood Story - A new extended-stay residence at the foot of Beachwood Canyon offers visitors a taste of Tinseltown’s magic, luxury and glamor (Angeleno) Kohler Street Collective - Meyghan Hill and Uri Davillier represent the new creative community that is transforming downtown LA (Design LA) Rapt Studio grabs the Office Design Award for their work on the Los Angeles headquarters of Fender Guitars (CA Home + Design) Kings of the Hills - Three Outstanding Properties represent the Creme de la Creme of the 90210 (Modern Luxury Beverly Hills) L.A. Angels - With Saving Iconic Architecture, a dynamic design duo takes on the city’s legacy of destroying its past (Design LA) Magic Castle - Scott Gillen dreams up a legendary property on a fabled promontory overlooking Malibu (Angeleno) Thinking Different - Mary Ta & Lars Hypko chart a new course in luxury residential development (Design LA) Go West Adams, Young Man - A look at an historic neighborhood reimaging its vibrant future (CA Home + Design) Row DTLA - A Vast Complex of Historic Structures Is Transformed Into a Downtown Destination (Design LA) Keeping Its Cool - Tortoise General Store, an oasis of zen calm in the midst of Abbot Kinney Boulevard, pops up with a new way to chill Three's A Charm - The culinary duo behind Venice's buzziest eateries bow another hit: Gjusta Bakery How Architecture Master Frank Gehry Is Giving Back to Watts - The renowned architect is designing, pro bono, a campus for the Children's Institute International (The Hollywood Reporter) In The Spotlight - Paul Crewes, the new artistic director of The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, aims bring the eyes of the world to L.A. (Coldwell Banker View) Broad Strokes - Eli and Edythe Broad’s spectacular new museum is a game changer for the Los Angeles art world and beyond (Angeleno) A Survival Guide to Los Angeles - 10 Things You Need To Know (Apartment Therapy) Fresh Art - Once a renegade area of manufacturing and studios, Downtown’s Arts District is now a destination for influential galleries, cutting edge boutiques and chic dining (Angeleno) Hammering It Home - The Hammer Museum’s second biennial survey of the L.A. art scene, Made in L.A., has a global perspective (Angeleno) Hollywood Halloween - How Actors and Lighting Designers Horror Up Their Own Homes (The Hollywood Reporter) Change of Art - MOCA’s new director, Philippe Vergne, is poised to bring the museum into the future while perpetuating LA’s status as a premier cultural center (Angeleno) Critical Mass - LaBrea Avenue has always had great shops but now it’s become a true urban nucleus of eats, stores and art (Angeleno) Heartbeat Drawing Installation by Japanese artist SASAKI (Dwell on Design)