Gary Gibson Gary Gibson is an L.A. based interior designer, product designer, retailer and artist. Choosing not to work within the confines of traditional design, Gary has forged his own unique path. Gary Gibson Interior Design, Gibson Studio, and GIBSON are all different mediums in which Gary gets to fulfill his passion and philosophy for the arts as to him, “the art of design is the balance of texture, scale, color, and light.” A native Angelino, Gary studied at UCLA's School of Interior Design, and opened his own full service residential/commercial design firm in 1981. His aim is to create interiors that are timeless and classic, but at the same time comfortable and usable. Since opening his doors the demand for Gary's design aesthetic has grown. His interior design work encompasses residential and commercial spaces from coast to coast, with projects in Los Angeles, Lake Tahoe, Montana, Vail, Santa Fe, New York, Greenwich, and Rhode Island to mention a few. Gary launched his furniture line, Gibson Studio in 2000 which continues Gary's design aesthetic utilizing such classic metals as bronze and stainless steel, along with beautiful hardwoods. Gibson Studio to this day continues to expand Gary’s need for new and innovative product, which now includes a classically designed line of home accessories. In classic Gibson style Gary challenged himself by opening GIBSON his design studio and atelier. Since 2003 GIBSON has inspired, his staff, other artists and designers as well as shoppers from around the globe with its expertly curated vintage pieces, furniture, artwork, and accessories GIBSON, Gibson Studio and Gary Gibson Interior Design have been featured in such publications as: Architectural Digest, Angeleno, Veranda, Elle Decor, Los Angeles magazine, and many other local and national publications. In an ever changing fast pace world, Gibson’s media savvy team stays relevant with many social media outlets.
Specializing in a mix of curated Vintage furniture, original artwork/prints & accessories from ethnic, to 70s, to industrial, to mid century, to traditional, to regency and everything in between. Open to the Public/Private Clients. Design services available.
We are committed to providing you the best customer service possible from a professional, friendly staff with expert design experience. - In-House Design Consultations - Interior & Landscape Design - Custom Furniture & Fountains Residential & Commercial - Retail & Trade We offer our customers Eco-friendly, reclaimed hardwoods on our furnishings. For instance, our line of "Old Java" from Indonesia is made from 100% certified sustainable hardwoods, each piece stamped with government approvals. We also can help you incorporate Feng Shui when designing & decorating your home. Feng Shui is a simple way to create a vibrant feeling of joy & harmony based on the arrangement of furniture in the home.
The shops are quite different. The Beverly location is much larger and has most of the Lawson-Fenning line and several other select lines mixed with great vintage pieces. Whereas, the Silver Lake location is a smaller neighborhood shop and it carries many more accessories and has an art and design bookshop.
By offering the best prices around for the highest quality items, we've become the go-to pawn shop in Los Angeles. Need a fast cash loan? Our watch and diamond buyers can help. We buy gold, too! We offer a wide variety of other luxury items including designer handbags, sports and entertainment memorabilia, art, and even exclusive movie props. At Yev's Jewelry & Loan, we guarantee that you will experience fast, professional, and friendly service while getting the best possible value for your special items. Stop by today for our free on spot appraisal! Now offering jewelry repair.
Located in the heart of LA’s West Side, Adesso features an eclectic combination of 18th and 19th century antiques and mid-century pieces. Art, custom home furnishings, and unique designer pieces make Adesso a destination for seekers of the avant garde and unusual.
The shops are quite different. The Beverly location is much larger and has most of the Lawson-Fenning line and several other select lines mixed with great vintage pieces. Whereas, the Silver Lake location is a smaller neighborhood shop and it carries many more accessories and has an art and design bookshop.
Pegaso Gallery Design proudly presents unique and collectible furniture, accessories, lighting and art from past and present centuries from around the world. We also offer complete design services, as well as a staff of skilled artisans that can create custom, one of a kind originals in an array of materials and finishes. Come visit us at 6812 Melrose Avenue between Highland and La Brea in Los Angeles, California.
Blackman Cruz specializes in extraordinary objects—the rare, the magnificent, the provocative, and the eccentric—in all their many forms. Their collection of furniture and decorative objects spans several centuries, many different styles of design, and a wide range of countries, from America and Mexico to Italy and France and beyond. Instead of period or pedigree, a particular aesthetic sensibility unites the showroom’s far-flung array of antiques and contemporary production pieces. Blackman Cruz’s approach to great design celebrates the virtues of drama, humor, ingenuity, and sculptural brio. Adam Blackman and David Cruz founded the company in 1993 as a resource for adventurous collectors and designers who share their passion for exceptional, idiosyncratic furniture and accessories. They filled the original showroom on La Cienega Boulevard with a heady mix of vintage treasures and alluring, offbeat curiosities from around the world. The partners soon began to complement the antiques with sympathetic contemporary objects of their own design, produced under the Blackman Cruz Workshop imprimatur. They cultivated their reputation as specialists in the exotic with signature pieces such as their bronze Op Table, Tri Ball Lamp and bronze Skull Lamp. By 2000, the BC Workshop collection had grown to encompass more than 50 pieces, ranging from chairs and tables to mirrors and lamps. Collaboration with artists has always been an important part of the work of Blackman Cruz. The BC Workshop collection includes sculpture and furniture designed exclusively for the company by artists Kathleen O’Keefe, Jeff Price, Alison Berger, and Lika Moore, Senior Designer at Blackman Cruz. Recently, the Blackman Cruz product mix has expanded into jewelry, with a range of exclusive pieces created by Pamela Park Proctor and Beth Orduna. In September of 2008, after fifteen years on La Cienega, the trendsetting shop moved its collection of dazzling curiosities into a much grander cabinet on Highland Avenue. Nearly triple the size of its original space, the new Blackman Cruz occupies the former home of the Probe, a gay bar popular in the 1970s and ’80s. The owners have maximized the dramatic potential of the vast-double space by installing monumental attractions and expanding the scope of their overall product offering.
We are committed to providing you the best customer service possible from a professional, friendly staff with expert design experience. - In-House Design Consultations - Interior & Landscape Design - Custom Furniture & Fountains Residential & Commercial - Retail & Trade We offer our customers Eco-friendly, reclaimed hardwoods on our furnishings. For instance, our line of "Old Java" from Indonesia is made from 100% certified sustainable hardwoods, each piece stamped with government approvals. We also can help you incorporate Feng Shui when designing & decorating your home. Feng Shui is a simple way to create a vibrant feeling of joy & harmony based on the arrangement of furniture in the home.
With over 14,000 studio items, and union/student discounts it's no wonder we're number #1 in Hollywood expendables! Don't believe us? Check out our new location, and follow us on twitter and instagram! We know you'll love us as much as we love this industry, and that includes you.
Selling natural history items, including mounted butterflies & insects, sea shells & other sea life, animal & human bones & skeletons, feathers, horns & antlers. Along with antique, vintage,& contemporary jewelry, oddities, funerary items & mourning jewelry, vintage & antique medical collectibles, antique prints and postcards, realistic resin human skulls, and vintage cameras.
"Rapport International Furniture has been a landmark for contemporary furnishing fashion for 67 years. In July 2011, Peter Skaaning bought this amazing business at 435 N. La Brea Ave. Peter – a furniture veteran originally from Denmark – has spent the past 10 years in Honolulu, Hawaii and Vancouver, Canada building his trend leading brand, Inspiration Furniture in those markets. Though no longer associated with Hawaii, Peter and his brother Steen, continue the aggressive growth of Inspiration Furniture, Vancouver and now Rapport International Furniture in Los Angeles." When you walk through our doors you will be welcomed by a friendly and knowledgeable design associate and discover a variety of styles, colors and textures to suit your preference. Rapport is the source of inspiration for many of California’s most beautiful homes. If you are in the market for furniture fashion, ideas and inspiration, check out the new and improved Rapport Furniture. It has a look that evolves, but never goes out of style and for those who appreciate beauty and craftsmanship, simplicity of form and the pleasures of living a passionate life… We say, Welcome to Rapport!
Kill City, a Los Angeles based punk inspired contemporary line, was created around alternative music and its associated sub-cultures from the past, present, and future. Stemming from New Wave Punk to Indie and contemporary music genres like Acid Folk and Post-Rock, Kill City provides clothing that supports these lifestyles. Consequently, Kill City has become synonymous with fashion forward designs adding a contemporary twist. Our philosophy is to produce intricately made fashionable pieces with distinctive silhouettes and vibrant colors that reflect today’s evolving interests and cultural influences—all while maintaining an affordable price point for the fashion savvy consumer. Kill City outgrew its initial 20-piece 2006 Men’s Spring Collection, and introduced its first Women’s line in Spring 2008. Using premium fabrics, washes, and construction techniques, Kill City's goal is to be a pioneer in all categories. Kill City's progressive wash and dye treatments include tie-dye batik, wax and pigment dyes to create innovative finishes which solidify an identity for the Kill City brand. Jeans, t-shirts, outerwear, and cut and sew knits are at the heart of the brand with seasonal items revolving around this core group. Deriding the establishment, Kill City strives to sever traditional boundaries with cutting-edge fabrics and key items that evoke an avant-garde and anarchist point of view—one that connects the consumer with revolutionary fashion.
Little shop of horrible hours Stephanie Mata's Never Open Store offers quirky items to those who can get in. December 12, 2009|By Bob Pool Los Angeles Times The Never Open Store is open only when Mata feels like unlocking it and allowing shoppers inside. Those who do get in are intrigued by the merchandise that fills every cranny of the 245-square-foot shop. Collectibles, eclectic art assemblages and funky antiques are crammed onto tables and shelves and hang from the walls and ceiling. Fanciful clothing and accessories are draped in any leftover space. "I pick who I want to come in here. I basically choose my clientele," said Mata, 47. "People put their noses to the glass windows to look inside and see if anyone's here. I can hear them asking each other why this place isn't ever open. They wonder how they can get in." When she is working in the store -- gluing odd pairings of items such as toys and ceramics together or customizing a battered picture frame for assemblages she creates -- Mata doesn't want to be distracted by paying customers. "I say 'no' with tact and grace. I'll tell them I'm cleaning and the shop isn't open," she said. "My store hours are hit or miss." A few moments later, Alexandra Guaderrama timidly poked her head inside the Never Open Store. "I saw the door open. I've lived up the street for a year and this is the first time I've seen this place open," the Cal State Northridge screenwriting student said. "It's amazing. The stuff here is random, eccentric, artistic. Some of the things are weird, but it works. It's perfect for Hollywood." Mata introduced herself as the owner. "I love your place," Guaderrama told her. "But why are you so rarely open?" Mata explained her philosophy as she checked the size of a green satin vintage cocktail dress that Guaderrama was admiring. "I'm the boss, and I don't like bad vibes," she said. Guaderrama commented on a dartboard that was riddled by labeled syringes, some bearing the names of deceased celebrities, and on a handbag decorated with tiny liquor bottles and an Alcoholics Anonymous emblem. "She gets it," Mata said, nodding. Like her policy with customers, Mata's prices are arbitrary, too. "Nothing in here is marked. I basically size people up. I know it's unethical, but it's based on what I feel -- whether I think they really love the item." She recognizes when studio set designers with a substantial budget to spend come in and charges them accordingly when they need a funky piece of artwork or a hip knickknack for the background of a scene. Young people decorating their first apartment on a budget are likely to catch more of a break. The green satin dress would be priced at $125, Mata said; the dartboard $75 and the handbag $125. Guaderrama left empty-handed but promised to return. The most expensive thing Mata has sold was a "cool chandelier I found on the side of the road" that went for $1,500. The cheapest items are $20 stainless steel fortune cookies. She bought a box filled with them at a clearance sale she happened upon in Northern California. Mata prowls garage and yard sales and thrift shops looking for one-of-a-kind items. "I usually like things that other people don't like. It's almost psychic -- spooky -- how things find me," she said. She has several "routes" that she travels on the lookout for castoff treasures on the nights before trash pickup day. Mata makes the loop about 1:30 a.m., after she finishes her shift working the door at local clubs such as the Roxy. Her longtime career as a professional doorwoman helps give her the financial independence to be picky about customers at her store, she said. It also has taught her how to politely tell them, "No, you can't come in." Her nighttime curb searching often pays off. "You'd be so surprised what people throw away. There are some amazing things. And the books that thrift shops throw out. It's heartbreaking. Sometimes I'll take the books and just leave them for people on a corner in a poor neighborhood." Mata's husband of 18 years, musician Dave Gibney, and their 15-year-old daughter, Molly, do not share her love of recycling, she said. They live in an apartment above another shop that is next to the Never Open Store. "When I find something on the street, they cross to the other side and pretend they don't know me," she said with a laugh. Mata decided to open her business eight years ago when her collection of objects d'art outgrew their living quarters. Her small storefront, built in 1929 at 707 N. Poinsettia Place, formerly housed a poodle grooming business and, later, a tiny art gallery. Both the merchandising and the nightclub door work come naturally for Mata. She was born in Las Vegas to a pair of designers who ran a clothing store that catered to such customers as the musicians and actors who made up the famed "Rat Pack." When she was 8 her family moved to Los Angeles, where she said her father worked with singers Bobby Darin and Tony Bennett. Her first husband was a musician who played in local clubs and that is where "somebody asked, 'Steph, can you do the door?' " and her nightclub career was launched, she said. Besides keeping the size of the crowd at the correct occupancy level, she turns away those who are underage, intoxicated or "are weirdos," as she puts it. For 18 years, starting in the 1980s, she held a series of daytime jobs in shops and boutiques on Melrose Avenue. "I did arrangements and design work without being compensated," Mata said. "I finally decided I might as well not get compensated at my own shop." She says she is comfortable as a merchant because her rent is reasonable and the income from her club "night gig," as she calls it, is reliable. So the Never Open Store remains open. Even as some shops on Melrose Avenue struggle to stay that way.
My life's work has been dedicated to creating jewelry that make women look and feel gorgeous inside and out. My artisan pieces are handcrafted using natural gemstones, pearls, cubic zirconia and crystal beads. The essence of my design is elegance, femininity and simplicity. Each piece of jewelry drapes and flatters our bodies to reflect our inner beauty to the surface and illuminates our true goddess nature. I have been designing and hand-making jewelry for over 30 years. My work has been featured in "W" magazine, Details, Brides and several other publications.
"The earth is already in space." Live Astro's mission is to create unique, high quality garments in and to promote independent artistry and design.