Special thanks go to David Keeps, who wrote the travel piece.

“Endlessly envied for its ideal weather and downright derided for its plastic-pretty, pampered populace, Los Angeles is, nonetheless, the US’s most successful company town. Its exports – movies, television, sportswear, fusion-food trucks, the cult of celebrity and the siren call of a mythic, sun-kissed lifestyle – occupy imaginations across the globe. And although it may be built on artifice (it was, after all, once a desert), LA has of late come into its own as a world-class art destination, with a particularly robust appreciation for postmodernism and contemporary art.”

“La Cienega Design Quarter, Beverly Boulevard and West Hollywood’s The Avenues are the must-trawl zone for design junkies.” 

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