BreadBlok Gluten Free Bakery in Santa Monica by Commune.Commune's deliciously restrained interior for BreadBlok, a gluten-free bakery and cafe in Santa Monica, looks good enough to eat. Loaves of crusted bread sit proudly on warm alder wood shelves, their golden shapes melting into the layered,...
Grá Artisan Pizza Restaurant in Los Angeles by Red Deer.Red Deer-designed Los Angeles artisan pizza restaurant Grá evokes a feeling of effortlessness, almost as if the materials, furnishings and finishes organically found their home there. A soft pink curtain, hung in the entrance, slowly...
The Future Perfect Debuts Casa Perfect LA with New Work by Matthew Day Jackson.The latest iteration of Casa Perfect, a nomadic gallery concept by The Future Perfect that showcases the gallery’s artists within different historically significant architectural environments, takes place inside a famed 1970s...
Kelly Wearstler’s Latest Furniture & Lighting Collection.Kelly Wearstler, the LA-based rock n roll queen of the design world, has a new furniture and lighting collection that’s equally as cool and dynamic as her impressively layered, high-octane luxury interiors. With purity of form the...
The Webster Store in Los Angeles by David Adjaye.The curvilinear façade of the Webster Store at the Beverley Centre is clad with pink-tinted concrete to give a ‘tough yet gentle’ effect, with David Adjaye both contrasting and complementing the remainder of the brutalist-style...
Meet The Flintstones: Contemporary Cave-like Interiors.In an overly sleek high-tech world, a few tough edges can refresh the soul. Welcome to the new Stone Age where cave-like interiors and objects reign supreme. My daily existence is saturated with slick technology. Pristine, perfectly...
Sculptural Ceramic Lamps by Carmen D’Apollonio.No two pieces from Zurich-born, LA-based potter Carmen D’Apollonio look the same. Entirely handmade, her ceramic sculptures, vessels and lamps embody an expressive approach, with fluid lines, movement and rippling textures. Like her...
Not Your Average Laundromats.Laundromats probably aren’t the most obvious typology that springs to mind when thinking of engaging hospitality or retail design – you could even refer to them as 'the spatial underdog'. Some, however, are flipping this impression on...
Abstract Portrait Paintings by Joseph Lee.By manipulating everyday faces and recognizable objects through segmented brush strokes, LA-based actor and artist Joseph Lee examines the dichotomy between external realities and the inner workings of one’s mind. Even though no...
