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See inside the surreal home of artists Marion Peck and Mark Ryden
Pop artists Marion Peck and Mark Ryden open up their home to Curbed LA in advance of a big move to the Pacific Northwest. Featuring a wildly eclectic design style, the unique residence is a work of art unto itself.
After a fire, a Beverly Grove couple rebuilds
As Mark and Kathryn waited for insurance money to make repairs, they carefully selected cool, clean-looking materials and fixtures. The house's plaster walls are almost totally bare; there's absolutely no clutter—and there's a reason for that.
The colorful lighthouse keepers of Los Angeles
The Los Angeles County coast was a treacherous place until the first lighthouses were built in the late 1800s and early 1900s, bringing independent women, heartbroken widowers, drunks, and more to isolated blufftop posts.
In Glendale, an Adams Hill midcentury showpiece feels like home
In this edition of House Calls, meet Andrew, whose love for midcentury is everlasting. "Right now, [midcentury] is a trend that will ... go out of style again, but this is me. I’ll always be interested in midcentury," he says.
Is Frank Gehry finally building his dream home?
Construction is underway on two properties where the celebrity architect for years has talked about building his dream home. At the same time, his Los Angeles portfolio is growing, with prominent projects from downtown to the Westside.
Ancient and modern collide at LA interior designer's home
Inside the Los Angeles loft of interior designer and landscape architect Paiman Salimpour, founder of Sormeh Lifestyle. Salimpour’s personal style mixes the raw with the refined for a forward-looking aesthetic.
How one building put Los Angeles on the map
As Los Angeles boomed in the 1910s, civic leaders longed for a public venue for concerts, events, and, if they were lucky, the Olympics. The LA Memorial Coliseum cost only $800,000, but it helped make the young city a star.
The most scandalous hotel in old Santa Monica
The enormous Hotel Arcadia, built on a low seaside bluff in the 1880s, was Santa Monica’s first grand hotel. Over the years it was the site of fabulous parties, nasty scandals, and a murder attempt by one of Los Angeles's most prominent citizens.
What comes after midcentury modern?
Palm Springs is famous for the midcentury modern design that has become ubiquitous in the last decade, but the city is spurring a new design trend as it embraces its brutalist treasures of the 1970s. How long until we all have concrete coffee tables?
Where Ronald Reagan went to be a cowboy
One of Ronald Reagan’s favorite places was his Rancho del Cielo, where he spent a cumulative year of his presidency, finishing his "Washington homework" in the morning, then riding and splitting wood the rest of the day. The press was not invited.