Author: Jenn Thornton
LASVIT A Fresh Design Radiance
When the great Maria Callas stood on the stage at La Scala, she imposed herself like no other, singing with such force, her songs were enough to shake the chand...Read More
Frida Kahlo’s Home: Picture Of Her Life
When the exiled Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky came to Coyoacan, a town on the outskirts of Mexico City, he did so at the invitation of artist Frida Kahlo (...Read More
Maya Lin Reshaping Art & Architecture
Designer Maya Lin is of a different nature. At just 21 years old, while still a Yale undergrad, she entered the winning design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial...Read More
An Unlikely Florist
From a decades-old VW van, aspiring actor Spencer Falls pulled up curbside on Abbott Kinney to sell a few flowers. More impulse than business at the time, “The ...Read More
The Landmark Ennis House, Frank Lloyd Wrights Opus
That iconic American architect Frank Lloyd Wright eventually found work in Los Angeles feels a bit like prophecy—he remains one of the most colorful characters ...Read More
Gensler Urban-Creative Operation
It’s an interesting question, what an international, award-winning architecture, design and planning firm might create if designing a space for itself. For Gens...Read More
A Thoughtfully Conceived Crossing By The Bay
In San Francisco, Twitter employees are enjoying a smooth commute. The company’s skybridge, a floating glass span 100 feet above a pedestrian alley in the city’...Read More
The Vessel: A Large-Scale Expression
For London-based Heatherwick Studio, designing the centerpiece of Hudson Yards—one of the largest real estate developments in America that has transformed a for...Read More
Art Bridge By wHY Architecture
For years Angelenos walked or jogged along a concrete-encased tributary of the L.A. River in Valley Glen, its painted flank part of the Great Wall of Los Angele...Read More
Culver City Contemporary Expansion
“I grew up in an environment where something contemporary was very exotic,” says Los Angeles architect Edward Ogosta, referencing his upbringing in suburban Pal...Read More
Cranbrook Creative Laboratory For American Modernists
Considered now, when so much of the country’s innovation and enterprise is the sole property of big cities on both coasts, Cranbrook—a creative epicenter in Ame...Read More
Vibrant Palette: Farrow & Ball’s Rich Paints & Wallpaper
The history of Farrow & Ball is as colorful as its vibrant palette of paints—and storefront on La Cienega. John Farrow was a trained chemist who spent the S...Read More