Sabin, from our Beverly showroom, was up early last week and snapped these gorgeous shots of early morning Los Angeles. 

 

 

Our Tastemaker Tag Sale for One Kings Lane starts today! Save big on vintage furniture, lighting and accessories including pieces from George Nelson, Dunbar and Finn Juhl. Hurry, sales ends Tuesday!

 

Start shopping here.

The holidays at our Silver Lake store! We've decked the halls with ornaments, lights and accessories. Stop by and check it out!

 

 

 The wonderful folks over at Remodelista were kind enough to give our new online store a little love this afternoon. Thanks, Remodelista!

 

If you haven't already, please check out our new webshop. Full of our favorite accessories, it's a perfect place to kick start your holiday shopping.

 

See more from Remodelista here.

 

 

We are very excited to announce that our online store launched this morning! Now you can shop your favorite accessories from our Silver Lake location from anywhere in the world, 24 hours a day!

The available collection features some of our favorite accessories, such as Olivewood cutting boards, wire mesh trays, and canvas and leather bags, just to name a few. 

As an added bonus, in honor of our new online store, we are offering free shipping on all orders over $100, for a limited time only! 

 

With an introduction by Lord Snowdon (aristo-scion-photographer), Rizzoli's exuberant publication of Oliver Messel's work throughout the 20th century is exactly what it ought to be: richly hagiographic to the point of technicolor splendor. There are few things more frustrating for fans of bygone decorators than a dearth of color imagery that leave us conjuring colors in our own limited lobes. While the archives of Country Life magazine are a glorious resource, it strikes one as sheer sloth when a publication leaves a renewed exploration of the past at that. Lord knows many of these rooms have survived well into the reign of color photography; would it were the editors of such compendiums sought out those later images. Thankfully, In the Theatre of Design has made the effort. And, somehow, where those gelatin prints are all that survive, even these sing with the full tonal range of conviction in which they were originally conceived.

Messel was a contemporary of Cecil Beaton, Stephen Tennant, inter alia and made his name as a set and costume designer for the Royal Ballet and other London stages. In addition to his interiors, many of these sets and their costumes are colorfully exhibited in this book, as is his later work in the eastern Caribbean.

$75.00

A new arrival to our Silver Lake store, these metal urchin bowls feature dark metal spikes that surround a gold leafed bowl, complete with removable glass liner which makes these safe for use with food. They look great as a single or en masse and would be a great gift for anyone who loves to entertain. 

Urchin Serving Bowls, from $28. 

Back by popular demand, these adjustable picture frames are a great addition to any space. Polished brass and double sided frames stand atop black bases with an adjustable brass rod. Choose from a 3 1/4" x 5 1/4" rectangular or 3 1/4" square frame.

Adjustable Brass Picture Frames, from $42

 

 

Proportion. Color. Proportion. Ornament.

 

It's quite possible to open Home Sweet Home and assume that Oberto Gili is a designer, so consistently are these interiors visually narrated in happy dialogue between architectural proportion and decorative application. In fact, Gili is a photographer whose work in this book has been featured in publications from House & Garden to Town & Country and Vogue. These are very candid, honest interiors that capture the spirit and often bohemian character of their creative owners such as Isabella Rossellini, Milly de Cabrol, and Jacques Garcia, without even faintly sacrificing taste in favor of kitsch. Of course, good taste has its kitsch, and such a balance is again as evident as the fundamental dialogue between proportion and decoration in these rooms.

 

As sensitive as Gili's lens is to the foundations and moving parts of decoration, the camera and his photography is an extension of those visions he captures. His framing and his light are impeccable. And coffee tables or work surfaces aren't arbitrarily gussied up with a stylist's heaping of plus-size photo-books for the sake of relaying some sense of life to otherwise soulfully denuded environments. None of the walls have the hideous glare of cheap paint in an eggshell finish; none of the ob-jets emerge from an up-to-the-minute "Hot" list. As at home in modern spaces by Richard Meier as in a Tuscan villa (one see the fluidity of golden rules), the pages turn with an engaging rhythm of styles and influences.

This would be a beautiful companion to Gili's The Luxury of Space, which is tellingly more interested in the inspiration behind execution rather than the outcome or lived environment itself. They're two sides of the same lustrous coin.

$85.00