SEE YOU IN LA: LCDQ 2019 CELEBRATES LEGENDARY ICONS OF DESIGN
Now in its 11th year, LCDQ’s Legends draws design industry luminaries for 3 days of fun in the sun in Los Angeles. As design events go, I look forward to this design marathon all year long. The can’t miss gathering of like-minded design denizens occurs May 7-9th, and promotes community, inspiration, and creativity with a wide range of keynote panels, conversations, product introductions, book signings and parties, lots of parties. Want to see that creativity in action? 40 designers are invited to create window vignettes in 50 participating showrooms and galleries along the design quarter centered around La Cienega Boulevard in West Hollywood. This year’s theme is a nod to nostalgia, as designers pay homage to an influential designer from the past. Luckily there are so many good design books that provide a view into legendary designers work to dig into for inspiration. Who will they choose? Will it be Tony Duquette? Albert Hadley? Elsie de Wolfe? Billy Baldwin? Or, someone else? You will have to wait for the big reveal to see and stroll the boulevard at night, the best time to take in all the elaborate design details.
A few new additions this spring include honoring esteemed designers Bunny Williams and Suzanne Rheinstein, two of my all time favorites. And since it’s important to preserve the past with care, a disco party to benefit SIA Projects, the organization started by LA design duo Jaime Rummerfield and Ron Woodson, with a mission of preserving unique LA architecture, will take place Wednesday evening.
Chairish is a participating sponsor and I will be there with the team, so be sure to say hello!
Ahead, the list of 2019 LCDQ window designers and their chosen icons:
Alex Papachristidis Interiors, Jonas
Geoffrey Bennison
Bridgid Coulter Designs, Una Malan
Zaha Hadid
Brooke Wagner Designs, Serena & Lily
Dorothy Draper
Brooke & Steve Giannetti, Giannetti Home, Compas
Bunny Mellon
Catherine M. Austin Interior Design, Janet Yonaty
Alberto Pinto
Chad Dorsey Design, Mehraban-North Window
Eileen Gray
Colette van den Thillart Interior Design, Marc Phillips Decorative Rugs
Cedric Gibbons
Dan Mazzarini, BHDM, Arteriors
Cedric Gibbons
Drew McGukin Interiors, Alt for Living/Remains
Karl Lagerfeld, Lee Radziwill and Mario Buatta
Edel Legaspi & Christopher Courts, Legaspi Courts Design, Waterworks
Michael Taylor
Elizabeth Barondes & Kelly Morris, Barondes Morris Design, West Hollywood Fireside BBQ & Appliances
Emily Summers Design Associates, McKinnon & Harris
T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings
Gary Hutton Design, Mehraban – South Window
Verner Panton
Jake Arnold Interior Design, Hollywood at Home
Rose Cumming
Jeff Andrews Design, Dragonette Ltd.
Billy Haines
Julia Wong Designs, Cache
Alberto Pinto
Kari Arendsen, Intimate Living Interiors, House of Fine Arts
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Kathryn M. Ireland, Nicky Rising
Nancy Lancaster
Kelly Schandel, thinkpure, Marc Phillips Decorative Rugs
Elsie de Wolfe
Kenna Mazaros, Studio Kenna, Hollywood Sierra Kitchen
Arthur Elrod
Kevin Isbell Interiors, Gracie
Albert Hadley
Klein Agency, Hammer & Spear
Eileen Gray
Kristi Nelson, KMNelson Design, LLC, Cache
Renzo Mongiardino
Laura Umansky, Laura U Interior Design, Janet Yonaty
Kalef Alaton
Mary Ann Schicketanz, Studio Schicketanz, Mansour
Josef Hoffmann
Martyn Lawrence Bullard, Martyn Lawrence Bullard
Tony Duquette
Massucco Warner Miller, Hollywood at Home
Sister Parish
Max Humphrey Interior Design, Tufenkian Artisan Carpets
Luis Barragan
Maximilian Sinsteden and Catherine Olaskey, Olaskey & Sinsteden, Mecox
John Fowler
Neal Beckstedt Studio, Woven
Pierre Jeanneret
Nicole Fuller Interiors, Galerie Carole Decombe
Henri Samuel
Nicole Gordon Studio, Tabarka Studio
Syrie Maugham
Ohara Davies-Gaetano Interiors, Barakat Gallery
Francois Catroux
Patrick Sutton Design Studio, Jamal’s Rug Collection
Billy Baldwin
Penny Drue Baird, Dessins LLC, Dragonette Ltd.
Mario Buatta
Peti Lau Inc., Harbinger
David Hicks
Philip Nimmo Design, Mansour
Tony Duquette
Sasha Bikoff Interior Design, Marc Phillips Decorative Rugs
Madeleine Castaing
Scott Schrader, Schrader Design, Richard Shapiro Studiolo
David Hicks
Sheldon Harte, Harte Brownlee & Associates, Paul Ferrante
Jean Michel Frank
Tammy Connor Interior Design, Harbinger
Albert Hadley
Tim Barber LTD, Renaissance Design Studio
Timothy Pflueger
Tom Stringer Design Partners, Harbinger
Billy Baldwin