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Cottage Life

admin — Sun, 31 Mar 2019 09:58:38 +0000

Pooltime at Chateau Marmont is always a good idea, as long as it is warm. Rather than staying in the main house, this time we made bookings early in order to get a cottage on the garden side of the property. I love it there. You have access to the house, restaurant and bar, but […]

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Botanica

admin — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 06:59:30 +0000

I recently learned that many of the hottest California restaurants are owned by women, including this gem in Silver Lake: Botanica. We had already decided to eat at Kismet, but a friend who is an expert on LA tips convinced us that we should save Kismet for later. Right now, we would not want to […]

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Nomad Los Angeles

admin — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 06:56:38 +0000

Suiting the California mood, the recently opened Nomad Los Angeles is a bright and cheerful version of its big sister in New York. The hotel building in Downtown LA dates back to the 1920’s when it was built as the headquarters for The Bank of Italy and named Giannini Place. Keeping the historical elements intact, […]

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Raquel Allegra

admin — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 06:55:17 +0000

To understand what the modern California style is about, browsing Raquel Allegra’s collections makes a great start. Born in Berkeley, California to artisan parents, Raquel Allegra is one of the most original and innovative of the new wave of West Coast designers. Famous of shredded t-shirts, tanks and jersey dresses introduced a decade ago, the […]

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Chateau Marmont

admin — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 04:56:18 +0000

Two things I did not know about Chateau Marmont until recently: it was loosely modeled after a royal retreat in Loire Valley, France and, it was originally designed to be an apartment building. Completed in 1929 and made into a hotel in 1931, Chateau Marmont is one of the few hotels in the world that […]

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That light

admin — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 08:00:05 +0000

“I came to Los Angeles from Philadelphia, where I had lived for five years, attending art school. Philadelphia is known as the City of Brotherly Love, but when I was there, it was a hellhole. There wasn’t a lot of love in that city. I arrived in L.A. at night, so it wasn’t until the […]

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Eating L.A.

admin — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 07:55:21 +0000

When in Los Angeles, the quality of the day increases a lot if you do not have to move from one neighbourhood to another for too many times. Staying in Chateau, we met a friend there for dinner one night. He drove from Venice and it took him two hours to get there. Two hours from Venice […]

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To feel

admin — Thu, 18 Aug 2016 15:00:47 +0000

On my travel moodboard, Los Angeles, always, yet for no particular reason. More than just a place – ah, so many wonderful places – to visit, LA is a feeling. I have kept in my notebook a quote from an article published in Vogue UK a few summers back. “Our yearning for summer shows how much […]

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