Every May, a consortium of designers and showrooms in LA splash out a three-day design event called Legends LCDQ (for La Cienega Design Quarter). Julie and I made the pilgrimage a week ago to take in the parties, panel discussions, and shop window vignettes—and we're only just now coming up for air. Here's a look at a few of the things we admired along the way.
It's a tradition at Legends to invite designers to create showroom windows around a theme. This year's topic: Where Muses Dwell inspired odes to everyone from David Bowie to Edit Piaf. Memorable moments from the week:
Above: At Woven Accents' vast showroom, husband-and-wife duo Scott Jarrell and Kristan Cunningham of design firm and Downtown LA shop Hammer and Spear created a fantasy loft apartment that included a kitchen backsplash made out of carpet. Photo via LA Times.
Above: Marble as headboard? Another inventive use of material at Hammer and Spear's Woven Accents window.
Above: UK wallpaper company De Gournay, longstanding makers of hand-painted Chinoiserie designs, branches out with a new pattern by Kelly Wearstler, available at Nicky Rising.
Above: Lee Stanton hosted opening-night cocktails at his eponymous antiques shop and set up a photo booth using some of his own inventory with a backdrop by Codor Design. (Lee also makes a line of natural furniture polishing creams; see Furniture Care: Tips from an LA Antiques Maestro.)
Above L: Elizabeth Dinkel's tribute to Julia Morgan, California's First Lady of architecture, in the window of wallpaper and fabric specialist Nicky Rising. Above R:
Above L to R: Lads from London: Will Taylor of Bright Bazaar—a self-described "young chap from the UK who is unashamedly hooked on hue" made the trip, as did legendary international designer Nicky Haslam.
Above: Remains Lighting has a new line designed by Commune, including this Table Lantern.
Above: Artist Valerie Sobel joined us for a courtyard lunch at Jonas, makers of memorably comfortable upholstered furniture. Photograph by Margot Guralnick.
Above: For Hollywood at Home, Todd Nicky and Amy Kehoe of Nicky Kehoe, members of the Remodelista Architect/Designer Directory, built a Wes Anderson-style work bench vignette, model mansion and Italian orange Plexiglas lamp included : "We applaud Anderson's ability to express the quirky greatness of mankind in beautifully humorous ways." Photograph by Julie Carlson.
Above: It was an extremely well-groomed group.
Above: Meeting of the minds: with LA interior design duo Brandon Quattrone (L) and Mat Sanders (R) of Consort (Mat is also a creative director at My Domaine).
See more at Legends 2015 LCDQ.
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