Since launching in New York City in 2013, backed by a robust $135 million in investor capital, residential brokerage Compass has upped the real-estate game, resuscitating the industry as a pioneering platform with proprietary technology that is innovating home buying, selling and renting.
Three books to inspire for the spring season ahead. Floral designer Ariella Chezar, Gwyneth Paltrow offers her latest home recipes and Million Dollar Decorators and notable designer Martyn Lawrence Bullard. Get your read on!
Brothers Jamie and Casey Davis, co-founders of the family-owned Portola Paints & Glazes are something rare in the paint world—present. Since launching in 1998, they still man their own store and answer the phone.
In 2007, mere months before the nation’s economic collapse, husband-and-wife design team Johann Pauwen and Michaele Simmering launched Kalon Studios in Los Angeles—a manifestly risky move, given the climate of the times, but one of solid resolve indicating a gut-level trust in collaboration and vision. In the years since, the company has merged its makers’ passion for contemporary design, simplicity and uncompromising sustainability into honest, functional furnishings.
Few landmarks are as rich in history as Los Angeles Athletic Club, the city’s first private club with roots in the Gilded Age. Among its offerings are a boutique hotel, a spa and eat-and-drink concepts that include the Blue Room.
Leura Fine’s online design platform, Laurel & Wolf, is banking on to revolutionize the design industry—a realm she knows well.
