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Open House Obsession: The Perfect Family House in Cow Hollow, $4.75M

By Philip Ferrato / 06/13/13 at 1:30 pm / Comments

A two-unit building in Cow Hollow gets re-scripted as a big, luxurious and family-sized house. Open on Sunday, June 16 from 2:00PM to 4:00PM, this spectacular renovation is a worth a visit. Read More...

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The Artful Democracy of Online Art Gallery The Tappan Collective

By Leilani Marie Labong / 06/13/13 at 11:30 am / Comments

Bonding over a mutual love of art (specifically, Egon Schiele nudes), Los Angeles natives Chelsea Neman and Jordan Klein, both 24, could not have known that the friendship sparked during freshman orientation at the University of Michigan would evolve into a successful business partnership. Read More...

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Hola Vendimia! A Behind-the-Scenes Glimpse At Ensenada's Annual Harvest Festival

By Barbara Thornburg / 06/12/13 at 10:00 am / Comments

For most of the year, the quiet beauty of Valle de Guadalupe’s sprawling vineyards and giant rust-hued boulders is disturbed only by the crowing of roosters or the occasional plaintive bray of a burro. Read More...

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Designer Crush Q&A: Meridith Baer

By Rachel Greenberg / 06/11/13 at 3:30 pm / Comments

Meridith Baer is the woman behind the largest home staging company in the world. Her company, Meridith Baer Home, has been designing interiors for magnificent country estates, swanky city lofts, and everything in between, creating beautiful and interesting spaces that feel like home. If staging hundreds of for-sale homes wasn't enough, Meridith also has two exciting side projects. The first is renting her insane warehouse of furnishings to L.A. set designers (it's the size of a couple airplane hangers!). The second is starring in her own brand new HGTV show, Staged to Perfection where Meridith and her team tackle luxury homes currently on the SoCal rental market.

Design Daily: Bainbridge Island’s Grain

By Sarah White / 06/11/13 at 12:00 pm / Comments

We might be a California publication, but we still have to throw some love to our fellow designers on the West Coast. Read More...

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Abstract Makes a Comeback In San Francisco's Meyerovich Gallery

By Sponsored Post / 06/11/13 at 8:55 am / Comments

The Meyerovich Gallery is the ideal spot for your artsy mind to run wild and absorb the saturated colors and luxurious textures that practically jump off the walls. Read More...

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Design DIY: Ikea LACK Table Makeover

By Rachel Greenberg / 06/10/13 at 4:00 pm / Comments

We can't pinpoint a more iconic piece of Ikea furniture than the "LACK" table. It retails for between $8 and $13 depending on the color, and has shown up in more of our college apartments than we'd like to admit. Instead of relegating it to the basement, make it over with this simple Ikea hack.

L.A. Agenda: Design and Arts Events in Southern California

By Elysa Hill / 06/10/13 at 12:00 pm / Comments

Celebrate the architectural accomplishments of Los Angeles-based visionary Frank Gehry and a generation of late-20th century architects that followed in his footsteps, including Thom Mayne and Eric Owen Moss. Read More...

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Art Imitates Life In Danny Heller's Los Angeles Suburbia

By Mary Jo Bowling / 06/10/13 at 10:00 am / Comments

Danny Heller’s modern paintings are inspired by  the past.

Growing up in the San Fernando Valley, Danny Heller thought nothing of the Eichler development he glimpsed from the windows of his parents’ station wagon on the way to Little League practice. It was only years later that he found something to appreciate in the sea of modern tract homes that made up his neighborhood (including Joseph Eichler’s Granada Hills development). “I was studying art in college, but I also took a course in architecture, and I began to see the value of the houses that surrounded me as a kid,” he says. Read More...

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