Studio Maesto is a Dance and Photography school. Our creative space houses an Arts Collective and hosts Music and a variety of other Artistic Events.
Smart Post West, is a 10,000 square-foot sound and picture post production facility located in the heart of the Santa Monica media district. Featuring the largest theratrical mixing stages on the west side of Los Angeles as well as television mixing stages, two ADR stages, and TV sweetening studios, Lotus has been technically engineered and ergonomically designed to streamline the work flow for the recording, editorial, and re-recording processes. 7 Avid picture editorial rooms complimemnt the sound component allowing packaging of services.
Owner: Christopher Grimes - Opened in 1979 - The gallery has launched the careers of several respected artists, most notably Lisa Yuskavage, Ernesto Neto and Fred Tomasseli. More recently, we have brought awareness to the talents of Scott Short, Veronika Kellndorfer, and Richard T. Walker. - The Gallery also currently works with established artists, such as Anton Henning, Katharina Grosse, Olivier Mosset, Allan Sekula, and among others. - The Gallery has participated in numerous international Art Fairs since 1989, including, but not limited to, Art Basel Miami, ARCO, Volta, Loop, and Artforum Berlin. - Our artist’s work can be found in several institutational collections: Centre Pomidou, Paris; SMAK, Belgium; SFMOMA, San Francisco; De Pont, Netherlands, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; MOMA, New York; Museo de Arte Reina Sofia, Spain; LACMA, Los Angeles; The Getty, Los Angeles. - Major institutional retrospectives for our artists have been held at The Renaissance Society, Chicago; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona, Barcelona, Neunationalgalerie, Berlin; FRAC Auvergne, Paris; Serralves, Portugal.
Artist owned and operated ArsenalFX is known for the prodigious talent and leading-edge technology. At its new, state of the art Santa Monica headquarters an expert crew of artists and technicians cultivate a boutique environment. Serving a diverse global clientele in commercial advertising, Design, broadcast, TV episodic, and film, ArsenalFX’s high caliber creative work earns top awards as well as a devoted client following. The firm’s newest expansion is ArsenalFX COLOR, offering the top colorists in entertainment for television and other entertainment projects. The firm expands its professional services to include concepting and design, look development, on-set supervision, 3D animation/CGI, matte painting, color correction, compositing and finishing.
An award winning production company. Founded in 1986. Has a roster of filmmakers who, collectively, have worked with the top creatives in the ad world.
Horatio West Court, built in Santa Monica, California in 1919, is an early example of attached houses with shared pedestrian and vehicle access. The six little buildings are grouped on a 60-foot lot. It was designed by Irving Gill.Horatio West Court divides its narrow lot symmetrically, placing two units on either side of a driveway that runs the length of the lot to a rear parking area, where two garages are topped with little apartments. Each building is a slightly inflected, flat-roofed two-story cube to which a small entrance porch and a walled terrace has been added. The arched entry ways and small patio courts reflect Gill's affinity for the Mission Revival style. However, the buildings themselves fall squarely into the Modern Movement.Richard Neutra extensively photographed the Horatio West Court as well as Gill's Dodge House and published in his book Amerika: Neues Bauen in der Welt (1930). In Leland Roth's American Architecture: A History, the Horatio West Court is described as "Gill's flat-roof crisply-rectilinear apartment complex." In Coastal California, John A. Vlahides and Tullan Spitz describe the complex as "one of the best examples of Irving Gill's revolutionary modernism."The Horatio West Court was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, the first building in the City of Santa Monica to be listed in the National Register.Gallery of images
Fairmont Miramar Hotel & Bungalows is a five-star hotel located near the beach in Santa Monica, California, not far from the Santa Monica Pier. The building dates from 1889; it was a private residence until it was converted to a hotel in the early twentieth century.HistoryJohn P. Jones, originally from Herefordshire, England, came to California in 1849. He made a fortune through silver mining, and in 1874, bought a three-quarter interest of Robert Symington Baker's ranch near Los Angeles. In 1875, Jones and Baker co-founded Santa Monica.In 1889 Jones built a Victorian-style mansion as his family's residence, and named it Miramar. His wife, Georgina, planted a rose garden near the house, and also planted trees along Santa Monica's streets.After John P. Jones died in 1912, his widow sold the family's mansion to King Camp Gillette, inventor of the safety razor. Gillette later sold the property to hotelier Gilbert Stevenson, who converted it into The Miramar Hotel.The hotel became popular in the 1920s with celebrities and other notable guests, particularly Greta Garbo. In the 1930s Jean Harlow was seen dining at the hotel, and Betty Grable performed in the Miramar lounge with Ted Whidden's band.A new six-story wing was built in 1924, to provide apartments for longer stays at the beach. Greta Garbo was one of the first celebrities to move in, and she lived there for more than four years. In the 1930s, 32 poolside bungalows were built, separate from the main hotel buildings. They underwent a $18 million renovation in 2002–2003, preserving the original design.