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DESIGN
Wine & Design

when: Thur 10.27 (6-9pm)
where: Santa Monica Design District (Fourth St and Santa Monica Blvd) map
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links: Event Info



Santa Monica's Design District attracts some pretty heavy hitters, from Design Within Reach to the Boffi LA studio and Eames Office Gallery. During the Wine & Design walking tour, the area's finest think tanks and lesser-known studios open their frosted doors to design enthusiasts. There's wine to help inspire the mood as you gawk at the clean lines of Linea and mull over Knoll's sculptural seating. The time to look beyond Ikea has come! (HC)



ART: Opening
Ed Ruscha: Then & Now

when: Thur 10.27 (6-8pm)
where: Gagosian Gallery (456 N Camden Dr, Beverly Hills, 310.271.9400) map
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links: Event Info | Ed Ruscha



LA has been Ed Ruscha's muse for some 40 years, and she has never let him down. In 1966, he produced the seminal photographic and conceptual masterpiece Every Building on the Sunset Strip, a book documenting in sequence the facades of, well, every building on the Sunset Strip. In 1973, he did the same thing with Hollywood Blvd. In 2004, he retraced those steps, documenting not only the same stretch of road along the boulevard, but the 31 years of change that came between. This juxtaposition of space and time forms this aptly titled exhibition — a fitting show for the Gagosian Gallery's 10th anniversary in Beverly Hills. (SND)