Tim Street-Porter is an admired interiors and architectural photographer, whose work over the last four decades has put many a Los Angeles architect and designer on the map.  His wife Annie Kelly, is a prolific and witty design writer, author and decorator.  Along with their individual work they have collaborated on numerous publications including the ‘Rooms To Inspire’ series for Rizzoli.
This week Tim and …

The 18th Annual Los Angeles Antiques Art + Design Show opens this week in a new venue in Culver City.  Kicking off with an opening night gala on October 9th, the fair is open through Sunday, October 13th.  DnA’s Mallery Roberts Morgan reports. 
After changing its name and scope last year to include art and design, and teaming up for its opening gala with the Los Angeles …

“Years from now, when we look back on California design in the 2010s, Commune will be a defining reference,” says Mallery Roberts Morgan, reporting here from the recent launch of a furniture collection created by Commune and Environment Furniture.
In the nine years since this Los Angeles-based design collective of four partners began, they have garnered a devoted international audience for their trademark style of …

Last night many of LA’s designers and design aficionados gathered at Barker Hanger at Santa Monica Airport, to welcome a new design fair to Los Angeles, called WestEdge. Mallery Roberts Morgan joined the party along with Kim Alexandriuk, Jamie Bush, Tim Street-Porter, Annie Kelly, Martyn Lawrence Bullard, Jaime Rummerfield and Ron Woodson. Here is her report.
One might wonder why LA needs another design fair when the …

Where there is a design happening in LA, there is Mallery Roberts Morgan, with her camera and pen. Her most recent destination: Coryander Friend’s Parachute Market, whose theme on this second outing for the market was “elemental,” described as being ”rooted in the periodic table of elements that comprise our earth.”
Coryander Friend (don’t you just love that name) is a set designer.  She has a …

 
As Mallery Roberts Morgan pointed out to DnA recently, the venerable French fashion house HERMÈS likes to do things “properly.” So much so that when they sent out an invite to the opening of their newly purchased and renovated store in Beverly Hills, telling guests the performance and program would start at “6:30 sharp,” they actually meant it!
As a result, yours truly, stuck in traffic, missed the …

If you want to know what’s going on in interior design and decorating, ask Mallery Roberts Morgan. Here she gives her recommendations for La Cienega Design Quarter’s Legends, starting tonight.
Legends is a three-day event with a jam-packed schedule of panel discussions, book-signings, showroom events, exhibitions, cocktails and lots of parties. Most of the event schedule is open only to design industry professionals – either by invitation …