Below is an excerpt from this month’s Shop Talk with Judith Hoffman:

Motivated by what she calls “a real passion” for all things Hungarian modernist — and a collection growing beyond what her house could accommodate — Judith Hoffman opened Szalon (pronounced “salon”) in 2004 in the heart of LA’s La Cienega Design Quarter. Always a collector, then a designer by trade — she received her degree in interior design from UCLA in the 1980’s — Hoffman gathered so many pieces for herself and her clients that one day, she said, “OK, I need to open a gallery.”…

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