2016 Venice Design Series: Architecture + Experience
Saturday, Apr 30, 20166 PM — Saturday, May 21, 20166 PMPDT
Los Angeles, CA, US
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The 2nd annual Venice Design Series begins on Saturday, April 30, and continues through Saturday, May 21, 2016.
Following a sold-out first series in 2015, this year’s events are spearheaded by landscape designer Jay Griffith; VCH Board Member Dana Newman; movie/television producer Eric Newman; and community leader Linda Lucks. The series is comprised of six site-specific special events, hosted by visionary architects, artists, chefs, designers, civic leaders, entrepreneurs and performers who have rallied to support Venice Community Housing (VCH), a nonprofit housing and community development organization.
“As Venice changes,” says event co-chair Dana Newman, “it becomes more and more important to show compassion to the most vulnerable members of our community. The Venice Design Series is a terrific way to experience L.A.'s architectural heritage, including many normally private locations — and to help solve the homelessness and housing crisis by supporting the work of Venice Community Housing.”
This one-of-a-kind design series — from the creative team behind the Venice Garden & Home Tour, which concluded after 20 successful years — includes events and tours from Bunker Hill to Topanga. The events offer access to homes designed by L.A.’s top architects, with curated entertainment and dining hosted by acclaimed artists, chefs, designers, civic leaders, entrepreneurs, and performers. The events are intimate and exclusive — most can accommodate no more than forty attendees. Subscription packages are available; individual event tickets are $500.00 per person.
Saturday, April 30 DTLA: A Downtown Experience – Celebrate the history of Downtown L.A. with a dynamic coach/walking tour of living, working and dining spaces in the Historic Core, Bunker Hill, the Arts District, and Skid Row. The tour includes lunch at the recently reopened, legendary Clifton’s Cafeteria. Guests will enjoy iconic L.A. sites with inspired civic leaders. Adele Yellin, Managing Partner of Grand Central Square, will guide tourgoers through the Bradbury Building and the Million Dollar Theater; Nelson Rising will show the Pacific Mutual, Beaux Arts, and One Bunker Hill buildings; Sharon Rising, past president of the Library Foundation Council, will guide the group through Los Angeles Central Library; and Arts District developer Yuval Bar-Zemer will welcome guests into his penthouse at the Toy Factory Lofts. Tour leaders: Sylvia Aroth and Becky Dennison.
Saturday, May 7 Sullivan Canyon Walking Tour (morning) – Meander through Brentwood’s rustic neighborhood of Cliff May- and Peter Choate-designed mid-century ranch homes — including the former home of actress Bea Arthur — and the Jay Griffith-redesigned community equestrian center. Tour leaders: Patricia Choate and Jay Griffith.
Saturday, May 7 Moveable Feast on Appleton Way (evening) – Stroll a Venice neighborhood of architectural homes and savor cuisine by outstanding local chefs — The Rose’s Chef Jason Neroni and Leona’s Nyesha Arrington, with desserts by Sugar Rush by Iisha. Entertainment is offered at each of the four featured homes designed by Tom Carson, Dennis Gibbens, Santiago Ortiz and Sylvia Aroth. Hosts: Sylvia Aroth, Nic Bettauer and Tom Carson, Mimi Wheeler and Santiago Ortiz, Dana and Jerry Solomon.
Saturday, May 14 SWLA: The Vibrant Southwest Los Angeles Tour –
Experience the rich heritage of Leimert Village, including artist Mark Bradford, philanthropist and collector Eileen Harris Norton and social activist Allan DiCastro’s nonprofit Art + Practice, and a performance by jazz and blues great, Barbara Morrison. The tour visits the Sanchez Adobe, the oldest building in Los Angeles, part of a Spanish Colonial era land grant and now owned by the Consolidated Board of Realtists, an African-American real estate group. Also on the tour is the 1950s renovated home of Liz Gordon, owner/founder of Liz’s Antiques Hardware, as well as private homes in the Baldwin Hills, Village Green and View Park neighborhoods — with lunch at Post & Beam Bistro. Tour Leaders: Caroll Hill, Monty DeGraff and Lynne Southerland.
Sunday, May 15 Saddle Peak Soiree – Enjoy sunset at a private hilltop home on five acres overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The event includes cocktails and hors d’œuvres, with a performance by guitarist Mak Grgic and Robert deMaine, the principal cellist of the L.A. Philharmonic. The home’s architect Michael Sant and Kristin Sant will host.
Saturday, May 21 THE Party – VDS co-founder Jay Griffith will host this event at his historic Pacific Palisades home overlooking Santa Monica Canyon to celebrate the success of the 2nd Venice Design Series. The party will be attended by event hosts, sponsors, homeowners, architects, designers, and participants. Partygoers will enjoy catered food and drink and dramatic canyon views in a unique environment, one-time home to Eddie Albert.
The Venice Design Series will benefit Venice Community Housing, a 27-year-old nonprofit that has successfully developed lasting, neighborhood-based solutions for low-income children, families and individuals since 1988. The mission of Venice Community Housing is to preserve the economic, racial and social diversity of Venice and surrounding neighborhoods, maximizing affordable housing and economic development opportunities, and providing needed social services for the area’s low income populations. Information about Venice Community Housing may be found at http://www.vchcorp.org.
For tickets, more information on the Venice Design Series, visit www.venicedesignseries.org; or contact Linda Lucks at 310-526-3857 or cell: 310-505-4220 or [email protected].
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