HI guys! Sorry this is getting posted so late for those on the east coast- clearly I am adjusting to west coast time and the WiFi in the hotel has been on the fritz this morning! L.A. has been great so far! My shoot with IKEA and OWN went so much better than I expected. I didn’t have my phone on set to take pics but some of the PR people there said they would send me pics to share with you later. What a production! I almost peed my pants when pulling up and seeing multiple trailers and like 30 people working on set. But the crew was SO amazing and the director so laid back and kind that I actually ENJOYED myself instead of stressing so much that I missed the whole experience. So I’m really happy and proud that I pulled it off. Then I came back to my hotel and my room is big enough to hold a yoga class in! It’s so fabulous- not to mention the perfect welcome gift from O of wine and the most amazing chocolates I’ve ever had by John Kelly. I ate most of them last night while watching the train wreck that is Magic Mike in my room. But holy hell can that Channing Tatum dance!
How great is this orange lacquer console in the HUGE entry?
Yesterday I got to wander around LA with one of my besties from Miss Porters in LA and see a few shops…. like Harbinger and Hollywood at Home (Peter Dunham’s shop).
How great is the exterior at Harbinger?
Peter Dunham’s shop featuring his own fabrics, which I love to use in my projects, and some of John Robshaw’s (who I got to have dinner with a couple weeks ago and is SO wonderfully charming and fun!)
Charming nooks and crannies off La Cienega.
While I find downtown LA to be not all that pretty- there sure are parts that are!
Then a fabulous lunch at Fig & Olive which is GORGEOUS.
Off to have lunch with a reader today (yes, sometimes if you email me I do write back- I know I’m terrible about that) and tomorrow we have our kick off event for the Life Improvement Project at IKEA in Covina with Lisa Ling and the whole Life Improvement Squad crew (I had amazingly fun drinks the other night with Amy Atlas who is the entertaining expert and she is fabulous!) If anyone in LA wants to come please RSVP to O Magazine at teh address below!
Sounds fab and love that hotel room! So funny you mention Magic Mike. I just mentioned Channing in my post today. I swore I saw him running shirtless on the Vegas strip. LOL! Hope your event goes well!
Oh my gosh, I was in BOTH of those shops yesterday looking for curtain fabrics!! I just want to move right into Harbinger (whose exterior I coincidentally photographed also for some front porch landscape inspiration!). I’m sure you have other places you’re planning on visiting, but I think you’d really like Rummage and Nickey Kehoe/NK on Beverly Blvd. and HD Buttercup in Culver City. Also, my favorite favorite favorite restaurant in the whole city is Bottega Louie, which downtown (7th and Grand). Even if you just go for a latte, you will DIE over the bakery packaging, the gorgeous interiors (brass hardware in the bathrooms!!) and the super yummy food.
My cousin owns Harbinger! I sent him a link to your post…
This is great! Congratulations! Looks like a blast!
->Ashley
Stop the presses. Did you say you had lunch with JOHN ROBSHAW? That must have been some sort of interesting…
WOW! AMazing…Congrats!! xo
sounds amazing. congratulations again, you deserve it!
My husband travels to LA on business a lot and he always stays at the Marriott LA Live so I recognize the hotel. He’s there right now if fact. This past summer my boys and I came out to LA to stay for a few days with him. We got lucky and were upgraded to the JW Marriott suite or VP suite. It was absolutely fabulous, but as you said all the rooms are large and beautifully decorated. The hotel is one of my design inspirations. Have you checked out Room Service LA. They have some great modern and glamorous sofas. They will customize anything from fabric to tufting to nailhead trim, and the prices are very reasonable. I am thinking of getting the Hollywood sofa. It was comfortable too.
Looks looks like you are having such a great time. Can you stuff that bar in your hotel room into your suitcase and smuggle it to my house? I love it! ; )
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