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features 90 LA VIE EN ROSE With a string of scene-stealing roles, actress Rose Byrne has blossomed into Hollywood’s next leading lady.

Bruce Gregga and William Laman curate a collected, global home in Montecito.

108 OBJECTS OF DESIRE A search for the season’s most exquisite jewels turned up these brilliant, one-of-a-kind statement-makers.

114 NATURAL HIGH Above Carmel Valley, elegant minimalist architecture and native coastal landscape design pay homage to the beauty of California.

122 STUDY IN CONTRAST At the expertly edited abode of Oliver M. Furth and Sean Yashar, divergent instincts blend for bespoke design.

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OBJECTS OF DESIRE, Chopard 49-carat rubelite ring with rubies and diamonds, p.108.

GABRIELLA IMPERATORI-PENN. SEE SHOPPING GUIDE FOR MORE DETAILS, P.129

98 ACQUIRED TASTE

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LA VIE EN ROSE, Rose Byrne in a Miu Miu top and Chanel earrings, p.90.

departments 20 FOUNDER’S LETTER

high-concept brand and boutique.

81 C TRAVEL

California: unlike any other.

Elegant bijoux for every occasion.

Fiji’s Laucala Island is the ultimate

Three West Coast jewelers share

luxury-on-offer escape.

22 C PEOPLE Who’s who behind the scenes of C.

29 C WHAT’S HOT

their Mother’s Day musings. NYC’s best-kept stylists’ secret heads

Photographer Todd Hido’s

glamping gear.

perspective and Depict’s digital

Sophie Buhai makes a tandem foray into jewelry and home

frame of mind.

61 C BEAUTY

decor. Popping in: Echo Park Craft

Laurel Whole Plant Organics

Fair sets up shop at MOCA. An

unmasks the natural beauty of

129 SHOPPING GUIDE 130 C CALIFORNIA

insider’s guide to the O.C. A new

skin care. Entrepreneur India Hicks

crop of hotels sprouting up all

launches a new lifestyle collection

Uncaged: a snapshot of actress

over the state. Juliet de Baubigny’s

and empowering business model.

Tippi Hedren with her pet lion, Neil,

spring picks from apps to beauty

in 1970s Los Angeles.

creams. Hitting the high notes: Eric

67 C DESIGN

Buterbaugh and Fabrice Croisé on

Artist Elyse Graham’s colorful

their debut fragrance collection.

creations are as light as air.

Marble wonders. Shop talk with

42 REPORTS FROM THE SOCIAL FRONT

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85 C CULTURE

to Beverly Hills. This season’s

interior designer Amber Lewis.

ON OUR COVER ROSE BYRNE photographed by David Slijper in a Michael Kors dress and skirt, and Van Cleef & Arpels earrings and ring.

75 C MENU

45 C FASHION

Octavia bows in S.F. A taste

Fashion plates Erica Pelosini

of Napa Valley. The power

and Touriya Haoud settle into a

of coconuts.

See Shopping Guide for more details, p.129.

Styled by Penny Lovell at The Only Agency.

HAIR Sascha Breuer at Starworks Artists.

MAKEUP Kate Lee at Starworks Artists.

MANICURE Brittni Rae at Nailing Hollywood.

DAVID SLIJPER. SEE SHOPPING GUIDE FOR MORE DETAILS, P.129

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Unique (adjective) 1. existing as the only one or as the sole example; single; solitary in type or characteristics 2. having no like or equal; unparalleled; incomparable

nique is a word that (ironically) gets thrown around a lot. Ubiquitous though

it may be, however, it’s fair to say that when it comes to California, the true meaning of the adjective applies. The state is singular in so many ways—its topography, climate, people (who are made up of innovators, inventors and

dreamers), cuisine and lifestyle are spectacular. I daresay it’s near impossible

to find another place that has all of this in such a stunning setting. Of course it’s not always

perfect (hello taxes, earthquakes and drought) but we tend to put up with it to live here: For most of us, it’s a love affair, and one that is too hard to break. Speaking for myself, I could not get the smell of jasmine-scented air mixed with orange blossoms out of my mind when I first encountered Santa Barbara 24 years ago—a far cry from the Michigan of my youth, I was hooked for life.

In this issue, we’ve set out to capture the originality that permeates the Golden State, in a bid to inspire every design fancy. Take a page from a bucolic family retreat above Carmel Valley

(“Natural High,” p.114), fashioned specifically to honor its pristine surroundings; or our feature

Founder’s Letter

on the season’s bold, red carpet-worthy one-of-a-kind jewels—each without equal (“Objects of Desire,” p.108). There are profiles on influencers who have forgone the usual routes to cut their own distinct career paths, including florist Eric Buterbaugh, designer Sophie Buhai and fashion star Erica Pelosini. Plus, we go inside the living space of L.A. interior designer Oliver Furth and decorative arts brand consultant Sean Yashar, as well as Montecito boutique owner William Laman and interior designer Bruce Gregga, who all truly live with what they love. At the center of it all is stunning actress Rose Byrne, a former L.A. resident who opens up in a candid conversation about life, her many upcoming projects and Hollywood itself. Considering her range—from ad-libbing the most cringeworthy wedding toast imaginable in Bridesmaids to holding her own opposite James Earl Jones on Broadway—it’s an understatement to say she is cast from her own mold.

My greatest hope for this issue? That in the process of celebrating these individuals, perhaps a new generation of creative minds who encounter their stories will be inspired. Because if it’s going to happen anywhere, it’s going to happen here—in an environment that is frankly unparalleled, at

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WHO’S WHO BEHIND THE SCENES OF THIS MONTH’S ISSUE, PLUS THEIR FAVORITE CALIFORNIA PLACES

David Slijper “I wanted to create a spring dreamscape for Rose [Byrne]—a place that fit with her beauty,” says David Slijper, the photographer behind this month’s cover shoot, “La Vie en Rose,” p.90. The New York-based British lensman has shot many famous faces spanning Beyoncé to Scarlett Johansson for magazines such as i-D and Harper’s Bazaar. C SPOTS • Anywhere under the sun • The outdoor space and green gardens in L.A. • Big Sur

Laure Joliet “I got to shoot in the most beautiful English garden in the middle of L.A. and meet Eric [Buterbaugh] and his business partner Fabrice [Croisé], who are dead serious about creating beauty with flowers and details,” shares photographer Laure Joliet, who captured the pair in “Petal Pushers,” p.38. C SPOTS • Ojai—I just love this sleepy little town • Chinatown (where my studio is located) in Downtown L.A. • The Arroyo Seco in Pasadena for a nature walk

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“When I am selected for a project with clients, architects and builders of this caliber I pinch myself. It takes a team with talent and passion to pull all the pieces together,” says Australian-born landscape architect Bernard Trainor of the residence featured in “Natural High,” p.114. Trainor is the founding principal and design director of his Monterey-based firm Bernard Trainor + Associates, whose work has appeared in Vogue Living and Garden Design.

C SPOTS • Hiking in the Santa Lucia Mountains • Sonoma for the old and new architecture • Native Sons nursery in Arroyo Grande

Sascha Breuer “It was just a pleasure and so much fun

this shoot. Rose looked amazing on the set that David and his team created,” says L.A.-based Sascha Breuer, the mastermind behind the actress’s tousled waves in “La Vie en Rose,” p.90. The esteemed Germanborn hairstylist has an impressive client list that includes Anne Hathaway and Naomi Campbell. C SPOTS • Joshua Tree National Park • The ocean and nature in Big Sur • My weekly sunset

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to work with the beautiful Rose [Byrne] and the super-talented David [Slijper] on

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WHO’S WHO BEHIND THE SCENES OF THIS MONTH’S ISSUE, PLUS THEIR FAVORITE CALIFORNIA PLACES

Shadi Beccai “I was directly inspired by my recent time spent in Ventura County and Los Alamos for this month’s trend page—escaping the city and getting in touch with California’s natural beauty,” says C’s Market Editor Shadi Beccai of “Into the Wild,” p.54. The L.A.-based and Florence-bred fashion expert’s resume includes

Evan Jourden

styling for Marie Claire and Santa Barbara Magazine. C SPOTS

“We worked with simple natural elements—

• Alamo Motel in Los Alamos

flowers and tree branches—to create a

• Meditation Mount in Ojai • The

dramatic and beautiful set,” remarks designer

Jolly Oyster in Ventura

and Seattle native Evan Jourden of this month’s cover shoot, “La Vie en Rose,” p.90.

The L.A.-based creative has built sets all over

Jennifer Blaise Kramer

California, as well as New York and Mexico.

“I loved getting a glimpse into the lives of

like a page out of a Steinbeck novel • The

local legends William Laman and Bruce

flower district in Downtown Los Angeles— the

Gregga. Their design aesthetic is a reminder

beauty there mixed with the contrast of the

that our homes—and the materials we use—

location makes it one of my favorite places

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C SPOTS • Lotusland in Montecito • Salinas—

should reflect the things that inspire us the most,” notes Santa Barbara-based writer (and Magazine) Jennifer Blaise Kramer, who visited the Montecito residence featured in this month’s home tour “Acquired Taste,” p.98. C SPOTS • The rose garden at the Santa Barbara Mission • Irish coffees at the iconic Buena Vista in San Francisco • Calistoga for wine tasting by bicycle

Gabriela Imperatori-Penn “We wanted to photograph these one-of-a-kind pieces using a different approach—very architectural, really showing the design of each and giving them their own space,” says photographer Gabriela ImperatoriPenn, who shot the fine-jewelry feature “Objects of Desire,” p.108. The still-life photographer, who splits her time between St. Barths and NYC’s West Village, has been featured in numerous publications including InStyle and Real Simple. C SPOTS • Napa and Sonoma—I am a big wine lover • The redwoods and coastal line in Northern California • Temecula

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Floral designer and now perfumer Eric Buterbaugh was all smiles in between shots with the C crew and photographer Laure Joliet in a sunlit Bel Air garden for this month’s spotlight on his efflorescent new venture (p.38).

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curated lamp designed by Studio Spruzzi, $1,200.

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phenomenon often occurs when a certain type of woman turns 30 years old: Her lifelong obsession with clothing is offset by a domestic impulse—the urge to decorate, entertain and nest. Case in point is Sophie Buhai, the co-founder of the well-respected New York-based fashion line Vena Cava (which she and her partner, Lisa Mayock, quietly shuttered in 2013), who this season is simultaneously launching high-concept jewelry and interiors projects.

“I knew Vena Cava was ending and I was going through a moment of trying to figure out what I wanted to do and what I wanted my life to look like. It felt like being a teenager and trying to find out who I was again,” says Buhai, now 33. Her first step was to move back to L.A.—the Hancock Park native found a 1930s Spanish-style house in Silver Lake and soon after, her long-distance lawyer beau, Josh Sussman, made the romantic gesture to join her on the West Coast. (The couple married last summer in Buhai’s parents’ backyard.)

Upon her return, Buhai was living her version of the 30-something dream—decorating her new home, taking art classes at Barnsdall Art Park, attending an artist’s residency at Tuscany’s Villa Lena, and experimenting with form. “I converted the bottom floor of my house into a studio and started drawing and making sculptures and jewelry. I was trying to work through stuff to see if anything was sticking,” she says. The result was twofold: an online gallery for her bold, sculptural sterling-silver jewelry collection and a curated selection of home objects (both found and fabricated) that combine to reflect Buhai’s new phase in life. “It’s not about having a lot of things, but the right things that feel really special.” Items featured on the site range from an in-house ebony Ikebana vase to the modern Mapplethorpe cuff—perhaps the most special is a $28,000 bronze sculpture by Harold Ambellan.

Buhai also takes on one to two interior design projects a year (she’s currently working on gallerist Hannah Hoffman’s Silver Lake home) while she tends to her retail business, which is already in specialty shops including The Line, Jenni Kayne and Maryam Nassir Zadeh. Her homes, like the objects, are a mix of Japanese wabi-sabi with European sophistication (Axel Vervoordt is an inspiration) and a healthy dose of California casual. Favorite sources range from 1stdibs and eBay, JF Chen and the flea markets to dealers like Patrick Parrish in New York. She’s also meeting local craftsmen to bring her sketches to life: “There’s so much to be discovered in L.A. That’s what I love about this project.” sophiebuhai.com.

FROM TOP A selection of new pieces. A Tobia Scarpa couch and armchairs in Buhai’s living room. Dream collar, $1,200, and Egg pendant necklace, $550.

Héritage collection split ring, $2,500. BELOW The facade.

SAN FRANCISCO

Très Chic

Maison Margiela opens the French doors to its first S.F. boutique. The 2,900-square-foot townhouse next to Xanadu Gallery is as avant-garde as its Spring/Summer collection—think pictures framed backwards, a Salvador Dalí-inspired sofa and trompe l’oeil inflections. 134 Maiden Ln., S.F., A leather-wrapped 415-917-2101; maisonmargiela.com. banister inside the C 30 MAY 2015

new S.F. shop. RIGHT Replica Promenade in the Gardens perfume, $129.

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Blueprint

The MOCA pop-up.

Rachel Craven textiles. Beatrice Valenzuela and Rachel Craven.

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Arts + Crafts

“We love everything that adds beauty to life—we appreciate handmade objects that are timeless, feminine and made with integrity,” says shoe designer Beatrice Valenzuela of the much-adored biannual Echo Park Craft Fair, which she, along with textile maven Rachel Craven, co-founded in 2009. In this spirit, their ever-growing indie marketplace returns this month at Mack Sennett Studios, hosting 90 artisans and designers including jewelry by Gabriela Artigas, ceramics by April Napier and Craven’s own line. The pair is also holding a tightly edited preview of the event via a MOCA pop-up shop—offering hand-selected goods from 15 tastemakers. MOCA pop-up: through May 8. Echo Park Craft Fair: May 9-10; echoparkcraftfair.com.

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French artist Vincent Lamouroux breathes new life into Silver Lake’s long-abandoned Sunset Pacific Motel, aka the “Bates Motel,” with Projection—a not-to-be-missed installation (in conjunction with Downtown retail concept Please Do Not Enter) that has drenched the landmark in opaque limewash, bringing attention to the vastly changing urban landscape in Los Angeles. Through May 10; 4301 Sunset Blvd., L.A.; projectionla.org. Projection rendering by the artist.

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With contributors like Herb Ritts and Bruce Weber, the notorious Pirelli Calendar has successfully elevated the pinup since its 1964 debut. The Italian tire company takes a cheeky look back with the clothbound tome Pirelli— The Calendar: 50 Years and More (Taschen, $70) by Philippe Daverio—spanning 1969’s Big Sur shoot to rare images of Kate Moss and Giselle Bündchen from 2006 on location in France.

Whitney bag in slate, $1,150.

To celebrate this month’s opening of the new Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC, Max Mara has teamed with the project’s Italian starchitect Renzo Piano to construct the Whitney bag: a stellar reflection of the facade’s fine vertical lines and metallic detailed paneling.

451 N. Rodeo Dr., B.H., 310-385-9343; maxmara.com.

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Best in Show Collectors rejoice: Doyle New York, the auctioneer behind the estates of Hollywood stars like Bette Davis and Rock Hudson, finds its place in the sun with its first post on the West Coast. A sale of fine jewelry will commence at L’Ermitage Beverly Hills, replete with rare art deco bracelets and necklaces from brands including Tiffany & Co. and Bulgari.

May 17-21; 9291 Burton Way, B.H.; doylenewyork.com.

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Basic Instincts

Of Maria Canale’s Deco-inspired Pyramide collection for Forevermark, the designer says, “It has given me the opportunity to move from an all-diamond look into more everyday wearable pieces.” forevermark.com.

SOLUDOS X JEFF DIVINE Smoking Slipper espadrilles, $75, soludos.com.

RUBY MINT Tropicana towel, $78, ruby-mint.com.

WH THREE’S COMPANY Venice retailers Mona Moore, Pamela Barish and VENICE

LFrank have decamped from their individual Abbot Kinney digs and set up shop under one roof on nearby Main Street. Dubbed III Luxury Collective, the sun-drenched space houses three separate but interconnected boutiques, showcasing Barish’s eponymous clothing line, LFrank owner Liseanne Frankfurt’s fine jewelry and luxury lingerie, and a covetable selection of shoes and accessories (The Row, Chloé) from Mona Moore founder Lisa Bush. 222226 Main St., Venice; threeluxurycollective.com.

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DOLCE & GABBANA pendant, $4,450, dolceandgabbana.com.

TADASHI SHOJI dress, $408, tadashishoji.com.

Pamela Barish, Lisa Bush of Mona Moore and Liseanne Frankfurt of LFrank.

RANDY BADER custom hand-built rocking chair, $5,900, randybaderwoodworking.com.

CHARLOTTE OLYMPIA Panoramic Pandora clutch, $1,295, charlotteolympia.com.

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SIEMON & SALAZAR Clear Happy vase, $650, siemonandsalazar.com.

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Pyramide pendant, $9,825.

The Land of Plenty Beyond the draw of Orange County’s famous beaches, visitors are lured by the area’s mix of luxury hospitality and world-class retail with cuttingedge craftsmen and startups. Here, you can have the best of both worlds.

STAY Check in at The St. Regis Monarch Beach for its Spa Gaucin.

• The Ranch at Laguna Beach, nestled in the Aliso and Wood Canyons, is opening soon. • The Resort at Pelican Hill is beloved for its ocean-view golf course. SHOP Sunscreen at Fashion Island’s new ZO Skin Health shop and towels at Ruby Mint. • Pick up Spanish shoe purveyor Soludos’ latest, a collaboration with La Jolla surf photographer Jeff Divine. • Browse cocktail dresses at L.A. designer Tadashi Shoji’s newly remodeled South Coast Plaza store. And while you’re there, stock up on Dolce & Gabbana jewelry at the Italian house’s revamped boutique; and don’t miss British accessories queen Charlotte Olympia’s new digs. HOME GOODS Design your own succulent pot at Roger’s Gardens. • Be sure to check out glassblowers Siemon & Salazar and furniture by Randy Bader.

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at L’Horizon Palm Springs open onto the infinity pool. L.A.’s Mama Shelter.

San Vicente Bungalows in West Hollywood.

CHECKING IN

With a wave of new hotel openings across the state, there’s no time like the present for a weekend staycation.

MAMA SHELTER Benjamin Trigano brings his family’s Philippe Starck-designed European boutique concept to Hollywood.

From $149; mamashelter.com. L’HORIZON PALM SPRINGS Originally built in 1952, this adults-only midcentury desert gem reopens this month with 25 private bungalows spread across three manicured acres. From $605; lhorizonpalmsprings.com.

THE LANDSBY A Scandinavian-inspired retreat in the heart of Solvang wine country. From $229; thelandsby.com.

LODGE AT NAKOMA The Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired 42-room golf resort in the “Lost Sierra” opens this summer. From $179; nakomagolfresort.com. LAGUNA BEACH HOUSE Within walking distance of Main Beach and Downtown, it’s like having your own beach cottage. From $159; thelagunabeachhouse.com. SAN VICENTE BUNGALOWS Jeff Klein (also of Sunset Tower) is transforming this whitewashed West Hollywood establishment into a hotel and private club. From $139; sanvicentebungalows.

WORLD FARE

San Francisco’s historic Swedish American Hall is turning into a cultural melting pot. The Ne Timeas Restaurant Group behind Flour + Water has opened Basque restaurant Aatxe (aatxesf.com) with cocktail connoisseurs the Bon Vivants, while Café Du Nord (cafedunord.com) on the floor below is finalizing construction. The hall’s former ballroom is also now headquarters for the Noise Pop Festival (noisepop.com), which will host live acts throughout the year.

WH Bits Supreme Quartz pendant, $280.

Aatxe’s beets and kumquat with trout mojama, farmer’s cheese and olives. RIGHT The Aatxe bar.

PATRON SAINT

Virginia Dwan, the Minnesota-born 3M heiress, opened her first gallery in 1959 in Westwood, representing extraordinary talents like Yves Klein, Franz Kline and Robert Rauschenberg. The gallery soon moved to a larger location and eventually to New York, but Dwan had laid the foundation for a powerful creative movement in L.A., which continues to flourish.

Virginia Dwan: Dwan Gallery (Skira, $70) remembers it all through exhibition shots, catalogs and personal photos.

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ROCK SOLID

From her Joshua Tree studio, jewelry designer Adina Mills creates oneof-a-kind pieces from exotic raw cut stones and crystals. Available at Roseark, W.H.; adinamills.com.

L’HORIZON: JAMIE KOWAL PHOTOGRAPHY. MAMA SHELTER: COURTESY OF MAMA SHELTER LOS ANGELES. AATXE: CHARLIE VILLYARD

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Petal Pushers

Eric Buterbaugh and Fabrice Croisé are creating the most exquisite floral fragrances, changing the landscape of the perfume industry in the process

BY KELSEY McKINNON PHOTOGRAPHED BY LAURE JOLIET

Eric Buterbaugh and business partner Fabrice Croisé.

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n paper, Eric Buterbaugh and Fabrice Croisé could not be more different. Buterbaugh (pronounced “booter-bah”) grew up in Oklahoma and landed a job at Versace in Dallas, which led to a director position in London before he traded in fashion for flowers: For the past 17 years, he’s been one of L.A.’s most in-demand florists, operating out of a studio at the Four Seasons on Doheny Drive. Croisé, a dapper French-born former Lancôme executive, moved with his wife and four kids to Park City, Utah, from Chamonix, France, so they could be near the mountains, while he commutes back and forth from L.A. (Buterbaugh, in his Southern twang, succinctly describes himself and his partner as “Lazy Spice” and “Sporty Spice,” respectively.) But together they have forged common ground with the launch of a new perfume line, Eric Buterbaugh Florals.

“I always wanted a business partner. I wanted it to be like Giancarlo Giammetti and Valentino, where someone could take care of the business stuff and I could…” Buterbaugh searches for the right word when Croisé offers, “Where you could bloom.”

The pair met through Mike Jones, former CEO of MySpace, and within a few hours had developed the key concept of the brand: that it would be exclusively based on flowers— surprisingly, a unique idea in the niche perfume space, populated with the likes of Serge Lutens, Frédéric Malle, Kilian and Le Labo. In the past year, they have developed 10 fragrances with the world’s master noses, including Firmenich’s Alberto Morillas out of Geneva. Come June, violet, tuberose, orange blossom (in its later stage), lilac, jasmine, lavender, lily of the valley, hyacinth and rose (the flower for which Buterbaugh is famous) will be freshly bottled. The company’s growth potential is as infinite as the number of different botanical expressions,

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even within the same varietal. For example, the pair will launch with the note of a Provençal rose and plan to release a Bulgarian rose later in the year.

The subtle, gender-neutral scents are currently available through their website as the pair put the finishing touches on a jewel-box parfumerie set to open early this summer in West Hollywood. It’s a far cry from duty free: The duo stumbled across a midcentury bungalow on Beverly Boulevard and took it down to the studs. When it’s completed, the space will feature an art gallery (“There’s one criterion to do a show in the gallery: It must have something to do with flowers,” says Buterbaugh), offices and a parfumerie bar. The label’s heavy crystal bottles feature a touch application, instead of a spray nozzle, to preserve the integrity of their contents. Even the samples are special (drops are placed on ceramic tablets stamped with the brand crest, a crowned rooster).

Buterbaugh hopes the new digs, complete with a catering kitchen, will also provide a meeting ground for his international circle of friends—say for an intimate book signing or a 90-person dinner party in the private garden.

House-made scented candles and collaborations with artists and fashion houses are in the works. And while Buterbaugh will maintain his business at the Four Seasons, he and Croisé will be at the parfumerie each day to help clients navigate and understand the complex notes.

Croisé, for example, encourages clients not to limit themselves to just one expression: “The orange blossom, which is very effervescent and light, is more for day, and the tuberose, which is a more assertive, opulent scent, would be for evening,” he says. Drought or no drought, here you can pick as many flowers as you’d like. Candles, from $70; fragrances, from $300; ebflorals.com. •

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1. The quail-egg ravioli dish at Italian restaurant Quince. 470 Pacific Ave., S.F. 2. Hooker’s Sweet Treats caramel gift box, $20. 3. Charlotte Tilbury Charlotte’s Magic Cream, $100. 4. Dior Spring/ Summer 2015. 5. Favorite apps: Instacart, Nextdoor and Tradesy. 6. The pool room at Tosca Cafe. 242 Columbus Ave., S.F. 7. Oribe Gold Lust hair mask, $62.

8. Bettina Javaheri earrings, similar styles available at Ron Herman. 9. Andrew GN Spring/Summer 2015. 10. Edie Parker clutch, $1,695. 11. Alexandra Knight tote, $895. 12. Apple Watch, starting at $349.

13. Tata Harper Resurfacing Mask, $55.

14. Pam & Gela dress, $325.

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reports from the

SOCIAL FRONT Sizing up California’s glamorous scene one bash at a time Edited by Phoebe Doheney

MID-WINTER GALA

Suki Waterhouse

Sloan Barnett, Stanlee Gatti

Vandy Boudreau, Damian Smith, Summer Tompkins Walker

Anne Vyalitsyna Michael Polish and Kate Bosworth, Katie and Todd Traina

Kate Harbin Clammer Stephanie Marver

On an unseasonably warm evening at the Beaux Arts–style Legion of Honor, socials and stars came together for the Dior-sponsored event of the season, the Mid-Winter Gala benefiting the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

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EDUN + NEIMAN MARCUS Peggy Lipton

Douglas Friedman

Kate Mara

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LA><ART

Danielle Sherman, Ali Hewson

Lawren Howell

credits tktk Gia Coppola

Sonya and Joshua Roth

Karyn Lovegrove, Liane Weintraub

tktk + NATHAN TURNER INDIA credits HICKS Minnie Mortimer

Joseph Varet and Esther Kim Varet

Nathan Turner, India Hicks, Zoe de Givenchy

Philippe Vergne and Sylvia Chivaratanond

It’s official: LA><ART knows how to party. The independent nonprofit art hub celebrated its 10-year anniversary and recent relocation to West Hollywood by holding its annual Ungala at the famous celeb haunt, Lucy’s El Adobe Café.

Designer Nathan Turner invited friends to his West Hollywood shop to celebrate the launch of India Hicks’ tropical new book, India Hicks: Island Style.

Wyatt Kahn, China Chow

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Edun and Neiman Marcus hosted an intimate dinner to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Ali Hewson and Bono’s brand. Guests also toasted Danielle Sherman, Edun’s creative director, at the midcentury Simon house in Trousdale Estates on the new collection.

Konstantin Kakanias, Suzanne Rheinstein

MID-WINTER GALA: DREW ALTIZER. LAXART: STEFANIE KEENAN. EDUN EVENT: PHOTO COURTESY OF EDUN. INDIA HICKS: AMY GRAVES/GETTY IMAGES

Max Boyer Glynn, Jordana Brewster

Katy Perry, Mia Moretti

BARNEYS + VICTORIA BECKHAM Kate Beckinsale

Gwyneth Paltrow

Rose Byrne

Constance Jablonski

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COACHELLA

Barneys New York and Victoria Beckham hosted a private dinner at Fred’s to celebrate their new partnership. With her husband by her side, it was a joyous occasion for the couple to reunite with old friends since they moved from L.A. back to London last year.

With hosts ranging from Interview magazine to Nylon, Rachel Zoe and H&M, who didn’t throw a party at Coachella this year? Jeremy Scott, creative director of Moschino, drew an impressive crowd to his annual after-party with performers including The Misshapes, Diplo and Skrillex. Meanwhile, Coach’s creative director, Stuart Vevers, invited his friends to the Soho Desert House for a pre-festivities bash hosted by Coach x ShopBazaar, featuring a performance by Echosmith.

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Victoria and David Beckham

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Zoë Kravitz

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S.F. OPERA The San Francisco Opera Guild and Saks Fifth Avenue hosted a lavish spring fundraiser benefiting opera educational programs.

The event garnered a number of supporters, who were also treated to a sleek, minimalist presentation from British designer Erdem Moralioglu followed by a live auction.

Allison Speer

Dede Wilsey, Fawaz Gruosi

LEGION OF HONOR

Joy Venturini Bianchi

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco held a dinner to celebrate the opening of High Style: The Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection, sponsored by de Grisogono. Guests previewed the exhibition before dining under the stars on the museum’s terrace.

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Fashion Opener

MIKE ROSENTHAL

The Curator LA founders Erica Pelosini and Touriya Haoud on the streets of Los Angeles.

Shop Girls

A pair of European transplants make their mark on L.A.’s fashion scene

BY KATHRYN ROMEYN

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hat happens when two style-forward, globetrotting women meet at a Vivienne Westwood dinner in L.A.? A one-of-a-kind boutique concept, the likes of which the city’s never seen.

The Curator LA is the collaborative effort of Touriya Haoud, a Dutch-born actress/fashion publicist, and Erica Pelosini, an Italian editor and co-creative director for husband Louis Leeman’s eponymous luxury shoe line. Their new experiential shop in West Hollywood is slated to open before summer with a Matches Fashion pop-up collaboration, set against interiors by in-demand designer Nicole Fuller.

“Everything you can see you can buy—we’re creating a

lifestyle,” says Haoud. Adds Pelosini, “It’s like an art gallery where couturiers, artists, designers and boutiques can showcase their masterpieces exclusively curated by [us].”

Expect a consistent stock of rare European labels and limited-run pieces, as well as designer installations such as “Mary’s Garden, where we’ll convert the store into a real garden with Mary Katrantzou’s bags and a cafe with baristas; or create our own Legoland with Lego bag designer Les Petits Joueurs,” says Haoud. In addition to women’s and men’s clothing, look for pieces for miniature fashionistas, too.

555 Norwich Dr., W.H., 310-657-4239; curatorla.com.

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FASHION Scenic View

The latest high-jewelry collection by Piaget celebrates the French Riviera’s free-spirited ’60s and ’70s through Mediterranean garden-inspired confections. Harnessing time-tested goldsmithing and gem-setting techniques, the house has reinterpreted blue seas with sparkling sapphires, and palm trees in a stunning Paraiba tourmaline- and diamondcrusted necklace. 323 N. Rodeo Dr., B.H., 424-332-4280; piaget.com.

Marine Corps

Mediterranean Garden necklace, price upon request.

Harry Winston Winston’s sporty Ocean Collection watches (designed for underwater activity) just upped the ante with the introduction of the women’s Ocean Chronograph Automatic 36mm, the first of its kind for female watch connoisseurs.

Available for preorder now, the timepiece features impeccable mechanics, of course—but it’s the 1.55 carats of brilliant-cut diamonds set on a rose-gold case that really make it shine.

310 N. Rodeo Dr., B.H., 310-271-8554; harrywinston.com.

Ocean Chronograph Automatic 36mm watch, price upon request.

SAN FRANCISCO

SAN FRANCISCO

Fashion BitsTwice as Nice

audience with fine jeweler Marco Bicego’s jaw-dropping, Watermelon tourmaline and stone-laden, one-of-a-kind sapphire handUnico creations (and his other engraved earrings, signature lines) can get it at Bloomingdale’s $15,630. in San Francisco, where the Italian house is staging its first West Coast shop-in-shop, outfitted in Italian mosaic tiles and woven fabrics. Bloomingdale’s, 845 Market St., S.F.; 415-856-5300; marcobicego.com.

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DIVE IN

San Francisco’s House of Borel has created the ultimate accessory: a handbag that doubles as jewelry. Launched this spring, the Italian-crafted luxury fashion label offers an original take on exotics like ostrich and crocodile, alongside rose-gold and palladium hardware. A by-appointment S.F. showroom opens in June and apparel launches this fall, but the opulent Eve clutch—sueded, hand-painted anaconda from New Zealand with a removeable rose-gold chain bracelet—is the ultimate catch. houseofborel.com.

Eve clutch, $12,000.

Swimwear meets sun protection this summer thanks to designer Lisa Moore’s label, Cover, which comprises sleek long-sleeve suits and rash guards made from UPF 50+ swim jersey, protective aqua activewear, and a range of maillots featuring imagery from photographer Steve Wrubel’s “29 Palms” series. The pastel-hued designs are lined with SoCal palm trees—an ode to the state that inspires both Wrubel and Moore, who produces her collection in L.A. coverswim.com.

Sleeveless swimsuit in Palms by Steve Wrubel, $290.

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Stuck on You

English luxury handbag designer Anya Hindmarch has a gift for not taking herself too seriously—dreaming up pieces that are beautiful, clever and, most of all, fun. This season, the creator of the sensational “I’m not a plastic bag” tote released her latest concept: leather stickers. The collection, which debuted at her Spring/Summer runway show, was inspired by the popular schoolgirl hobby of personalizing belongings, and elevated it to a much more grown-up medium. To that effect, the designer created Sticker Shop in collaboration with Charlotte Stockdale of Chaos Fashion, which offers playful, graphic handcrafted leather stickers that can be safely applied to bags, notebooks, phones or accessories. Leave it to Hindmarch to rally fashion devotees to graffiti their most prized possessions.

118 S. Robertson Blvd., L.A., 310-271-9707; anyahindmarch.com.

Stickered Up Bathurst bag, $2,360. Leather symbols, $75 each, and leather letters, $55 each.

LOS ANGELES

Fashion Bits WOW FACTOR

Ice, Ice, Baby

Southern California fine-jewelry designer Suzanne Kalan knows what she likes, and it’s baguettes.

Her new Fireworks collection centers around the classic diamond cut, set in scattered patterns that mimic the random way metal shavings adhere to a magnet. The result is bijoux that feel modern, architectural and totally fresh. suzannekalan.com.

Peaceful Place pendant necklace, $374,000.

VENICE

After 20-plus years of jewelry innovation, Todd Reed, whose Venice flagship opened last year, continues to push boundaries. His latest masterwork, the Peaceful Place pendant—a 22-karat-gold, palladium and platinum locket studded with diamonds, moldavite, moonstones and sapphires that opens to reveal a handcarved Buddha—“articulates the beauty around closing down and opening up, revealing your true self or working with a polished outside,” in the designer’s words. 1511 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Venice, 310-450-7840; toddreed.com.

BRENTWOOD

A mix of white and champagne diamond rings, $4,000-$7,000.

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the 405 to open a second L.A. shop at the Brentwood Country Mart. Featuring a nautical theme reflective of its proximity to the Pacific, the two-story boutique offers red soles for women and men, handbags and the brand’s lavish beauty collection. 225 26th St., L.A., 424-217-4911; christianlouboutin.com.

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P.S. I LOVE YOU

All-American interior designer and blogger Mark D. Sikes’ first foray into women’s fashion is focused, to say the least. His inspirations? The work of designer Claire McCardell, ’30s and ’40s sportswear and stripes.

“I don’t know if I have ever met anyone who didn’t love a blue-and-white stripe,” says Sikes, whose debut M.D.S. Stripes collection is made in L.A. and comprises classic cotton tops, dresses, ball skirts, scarves and accessories named for style icons including Grace Kelly, Jane Birkin and Lauren Hutton. Coming up: cashmere and additional knit silhouettes for fall, plus more ball skirts—can you ever have too many? mdsstripes.com.

Gold and clear quartz Mother’s Day Locket, $245.

Taking a Page

What are the five eye tricks every girl should know?

How do you make your bedroom a sanctuary? Check out L.A.-based fashion journalist, TV host and blogger Louise Roe’s first book, Front Roe: How to Be the Leading Lady in Your Own Life (Running Press, $25), a comprehensive roundup of practical tips and guidelines Roe has learned through years of working in the industry.

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or Milan-born gemologist Tito Pedrini, jewelry design is not dictated by fashion. Instead, he says, “my stones dictate my designs.” Having just signed a collaboration with a reputed diamond cutter in Antwerp, Pedrini thrills to the idea that he “can have any kind of rare thing I want in one day,” he says. The jeweler, who views California as his spiritual home away from home, travels primarily between London and New York, where he crafts collaborative custom pieces for clients starting at $100,000 and four carats.

His true passion? Gemstones, of course. “I remember the colors and the stones of the jewelry my mother wore when I was a child. It was always a bit innate,” he says. And while he can easily elaborate on the distinction between a Burmese sapphire and one from Kashmir, his current focus is diamonds of the large, jaw-dropping variety. “I sell the most emerald cuts, but I love the marquise shape, though it’s not very popular,” he says. “And I always love hearts—I think they are coming back in America.” titopedrini.com. titopedrini.com FROM LEFT

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Tito Pedrini. A selection of extraordinary rings, price upon request.

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STARS IN STRIPES

The designer and friends in M.D.S. Stripes.

Just in time for Mother’s Day, Brooklyn-based designer Alexis Bittar has created a limited-edition locket. “It’s a play on a traditional Victorian locket,” he says, “but with a futuristic and edgy twist.” 1612 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Venice, 310-452-6901; alexisbittar.com.

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FASHION

Mother Knows Best Three jewelry designers reflect on the perks of parenting

Mara Carrizo Scalise

Each handcrafted piece Scalise designs incorporates two strong forces in her life: spirituality and positivity. After launching a fashion line in her native Argentina, Scalise became a fashion stylist in New York, and then moved to Laurel Canyon, where the mother of two now creates her jewelry and leather goods, imbued with her signature edgy, cool, yet timeless look.

WORDS OF WISDOM Be patient and enjoy the moment. Life is so beautiful and precious—make time to enjoy it with your kids.

FAVORITE ACTIVITY WITH KIDS Going to the beaches of Malibu.

PERFECT MOTHER’S DAY GIFT My B Horn pendant necklace with diamonds. It’s meant to be a protection charm.

B Horn necklace with black diamonds, $6,735, maramcs.com.

Mara Carrizo Scalise at home with her son and daughter.

Jennifer Fisher

A Santa Barbara native, Fisher started her company after the birth of her first child when she couldn’t find a piece of jewelry that both spelled his name and reflected her own personal style. Four thousand charms and another child later, her namesake brand includes fine jewelry and bold brass fashion pieces, and has a loyal fan base including Cameron Diaz, Rihanna and Naomi Watts. Fisher currently lives in New York City.

WORDS OF WISDOM From my mother-in-law: “If they are quiet leave them alone.” It’s true—I catch myself asking my kids if they need something a certain way and they are actually fine and don’t need the doting.

FAVORITE ACTIVITY WITH KIDS Gardening at my dad’s house in Santa Barbara (we planted pumpkins for Halloween on our last trip).

PERFECT MOTHER’S DAY GIFT Always a charm necklace to represent your kids and family!

Or a burnished diamond cuff with the kids’ names, monogram nickname or birth dates.

Jennifer Fisher and her family in Los Angeles.

Equation cuff, $5,500, jenniferfisherjewelry.com.

Jacquie Aiche

Raised in the Hollywood Hills, Aiche’s Egyptian and American heritage informs her eponymous jewelry line, which mixes gemstones with organic fossils, amulets, relics and hammered gold. Her body chains and finger bracelets are stylist favorites. Aiche now calls Beverly Hills home with her husband and two children.

WORDS OF WISDOM You get what you give.

FAVORITE ACTIVITY WITH KIDS Our Sunday morning brunch ritual.

Each Sunday is a different menu and everybody pitches in to help.

We all look forward to it each week; we’re creating a family tradition.

PERFECT MOTHER’S DAY GIFT The Daisy ring is one of my favorite pieces this season. The pink tourmalines are so fresh and feminine.

Jacquie Aiche and her children. Pink tourmaline Daisy ring, $2,500, jacquieaiche.com.

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WRITTEN BY HEATHER SEVERS. AICHE: WHITNEY BELL. SCALISE: ROBERT BRYANT

Fashion Turn

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THE ELDER STATESMAN handkerchief, $1,295, The Elder Statesman, W.H.

JANESSA LEONE hat, $251, janessaleone.com.

VALENTINO GARAVANI bag, $2,175, Valentino, S.F.

PENDLETON WOOLEN MILLS towel, $49, pendleton-usa.com.

FRAME DENIM jeans, $250, Diani Boutique, S.B.

ULLA JOHNSON wrap, $380, Heist, Venice.

PROENZA SCHOULER sandals, $545, barneys.com.

LISA MARIE FERNANDEZ bathing suit, $390, lisamariefernandez.com.

STANLEY mug, $30, shopstanley-pmi.com.

Fashion Bits PRADA sunglasses, $450, Prada, B.H.

Into the Wild

COLEMAN lantern, $20, coleman.com.

Pack up your glamping gear for a weekend under the stars

CURRENT/ELLIOTT top, $118, currentelliott.com.

BELL & ROSS watch, $3,400, Hamilton Jewelers Pavilions, Sacramento.

BEST MADE COMPANY first-aid kit, $48, bestmadeco.com.

7 FOR ALL MANKIND shorts, $138, 7 For All Mankind, Newport Beach.

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CHLOÉ bag, $990, Chloé, N.Y.

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MIANSAI bracelet, $125, Saks Fifth Avenue, B.H.

House of Borel

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FASHION STEPHEN WEBSTER $32,000, Stephen Webster, B.H. VAN CLEEF & ARPELS $30,800, Van Cleef & Arpels, B.H.

Garden of Eden Rings of the natural variety tempt in black diamonds, opal and tourmaline

ROBERTO COIN Price upon request, Shreve & Co., S.F.

SYLVA & CIE $9,375, Saks Fifth Avenue, B.H.

CHOPARD Price upon request, Chopard, South Coast Plaza.

ILEANA MAKRI $4,245, ileanamakri.com.

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DANIELA VILLEGAS $13,750, modaoperandi.com.

WENDY YUE $21,300, Neiman Marcus, B.H.

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Closet Envy

Irene and Marina Albright, the mother-and-daughter team behind New York’s Albright Fashion Library, bring their archives and one-stop-styling shop to California

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n open secret among stylists, costume designers and the sartorially savvy since its inception in 1990, New York’s Albright Fashion Library (AFL) makes even Vogue’s mystical fashion closet pale in comparison. In a nondescript building in Manhattan’s NoHo district is a treasure trove of over 30,000 gowns, dresses, blouses, skirts, jackets, shoes, bags and pieces of jewelry culled from the collections of more than 100 designers, from Givenchy to Alexander McQueen—each hand-selected by owner and former stylist Irene Albright and her daughter, fashion editor-at-large and buyer Marina, who previously honed her eye as a fashion assistant at Glamour.

Now the duo have expanded their archives—the most comprehensive of its kind in the world—to a West Coast flagship in Beverly Hills that has already lured the likes of stylists Isabel Dupré and Elizabeth Stewart, on the hunt for respective megawatt clients Kim Kardashian and Jessica Chastain. Packed with more than 10,000 finds, the new outpost features offerings available for rent by appointment only and sourced from the archives in New York as well as newly acquired pieces from Paris.

“The L.A. scene is more about cocktail dresses than gowns,” observes Marina. “So we’ve been buying differently here: more sequins and short fringed dresses—girls are really into rock ’n’ roll.” We caught up with Irene, who, with her daughter, is now officially bicoastal: “I’ll be in L.A. in October and November,” she says. “I’m a snowbird.”

What appealed about your new space?

IA: We found this beautiful midcentury Slim Aarons-style, six-bedroom house just off Sunset Boulevard—very ’70s sexy. It’s our showroom, but also a set for any editorial or advertising photo shoots in need of a full glamorous wardrobe, styling or consulting. It is open by appointment to fashion insiders, or to any woman eager to project a [specific] look.

Besides the obvious, what makes your service stand out?

IA: In New York, we have the last five years’ worth of collections of Azzedine Alaïa, Saint Laurent, Lanvin, Alexander McQueen, Mugler, Tom Ford, Balmain and Calvin Klein. We only buy statement pieces or great classics, nothing “commercial”—meaning boring—or über-trendy. We have a digital database of our entire New York collection, including new arrivals, that allows us to ship any piece overnight, if our 10,000-piece collection in L.A. is not sufficient.

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The AFL has a rich history with costume design in movies and TV. Can you recount a few highlights?

IA: Patricia Field relied on the AFL from the first to the last episode of “Sex and the City,” and we also provided many of the costumes in Zoolander and The Devil Wears Prada: When Anne Hathaway gets out of the taxi for her first ball as an official fashion insider, she’s wearing a black Galliano dress pulled from us. More recently in the first season of “House of Cards,” Robin Wright wore a dramatic silver Victoria Beckham dress from AFL—we let the costume designer [Tom Broecker] take it in to fit her.

What do you buy that others don’t?

IA: A lot of runway pieces that the stores are afraid of.

608 N. Alpine Dr., B.H., 424-274-3510; albrightnyc.com. •

HAIR AND MAKEUP: BEGLAMMED

Why did you decide to hop on the Los Angeles fashion bandwagon and open an outpost here?

Irene Albright: The fashion game in L.A. is amping up— between Saint Laurent’s studio, Tom Ford’s show and Louis Vuitton’s Palm Springs [Resort presentation]—we think we have a place here. In New York, we work with many stylists based on the West Coast, like Karla Welch and Erin Walsh.

Some used to fly to New York to pull clothes from us. They were the ones begging us to come.

Why is it called a library?

IA: Because we created our own Dewey Decimal System.

Everything is organized and categorized with care and detail to enable editors to find their selections with ease.

Marina (left) and Irene Albright in the Hollywood Hills.

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Beauty Opener

Planting the Seeds

BY CAROLINE CAGNEY

TRINETTE REED PHOTOGRAPHY

T The Laurel Whole Plant Organics skin-care line is formulated with all-natural ingredients. Detox mask of purifying French green clay for breakout-prone and congested skin, $50.

en years ago, San Francisco sommelier Laurel Shaffer parlayed a day at a spa into a revolutionary botanical-based skin-care line. “I often felt very loved and nurtured by these special destination spas, but then there was a disconnect with the toxic, mass-produced products they used in their facial treatments,” recalls Shaffer. So, she set out to create Laurel Whole Plant Organics, which includes everything from an eye serum (formulated with Roman chamomile, fennel and sandalwood to brighten and reduce inflammation) to a Honey Berry Enzyme mask (full of hydrating royal jelly, strawberries and firming grapefruit). Find these, along with other organic brands like La Bella Figura and Homestead Apothecary, at Shaffer’s new wellness studio in Sausalito, where you can also receive facial treatments and, soon, nutrition counseling. $44-$88; facials, $140/80 min.; 1 Gate 6 Rd., Ste. D, Sausalito, 415-717-1689; laurelskin.com.

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PRETTY GENIUS

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Beauty Bits

Pay It Forward

This month, L.A.-based eco-queen Priscilla Woolworth, recognized for her informative greenliving blog and web store, celebrates the release of LOLA, Lots of Love Always (Priscilla Woolworth Press, $38), a health and lifestyle guide for young women. The volume, inspired by her two daughters, ages 23 and 25, covers everything from how to cook healthy plant-based meals and write the perfect thank-you note, to the importance of volunteering and recycling. “The Natural Beauty chapter is one of my favorites because it explains how you can protect your health when choosing beauty products,” says Woolworth (a relative of one of the founding partners of the Woolworth store chain).

“When I was younger, nobody thought about the health connection—we just bought and used whatever was in stores and looked cool.” priscillawoolworth.com.

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body lotions as well as wash sets. An equally covetable accessories collection includes everything from canvas totes and leather clutches to scarves and dopp kits in whimsical beetle prints.

It’s the latest in a string of entrepreneurial endeavors for the former model, who also has an eponymous jewelry line at Bloomingdale’s, as well as India Hicks Island Living collections for both HSN and Crabtree & Evelyn. In addition to being sold online, the brand is also available through a direct-selling platform that encourages women to host social gatherings, a la Avon.

Says Hicks, “I wanted to offer women the opportunity to be at the center of their own businesses, encouraging them to be financially independent and to be their strongest.” $24-$420; indiahicks.com.

Physical Attraction

Exercise enthusiasts can head to Brentwood’s new boutique, Sweat NSK, to stock up on luxury activewear lines including VPL, Zoe Karssen, and made-in-L.A. brands Garbe Luxe and Live The Process.

11731 Barrington Ct., Brentwood; sweatnsk.com.

Garbe Luxe Low-Back tank, $68, and Tech Capri pants, $98.

WRITTEN BY CAROLINE CAGNEY. HICKS: BRITTAN GOETZ. SWEAT NSK: LUKE WOODEN

India Hicks and her daughter, Domino Carmen Flint Wood, at home in the Bahamas. RIGHT The Grove Hand Lotion, $29.

e are working at a faster rate than ever before [so traditional] retail has a slight dinosaur feeling to it now,” says Bahamas-based (and British-born) aristocrat and entrepreneur India Hicks of her foray into the e-commerce world with her first accessories and bathand-body lines, India Hicks London-Harbour Island.

Headquartered in Los Angeles, Hicks’ newest venture follows in the footsteps of her Harbour Island boutique and features two fragrances (English Rose, a composition of grass, peony and rose, and Wild Spiderlily, an ode to honeysuckle and orange flowers laced with notes of sandalwood), available in

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Shiva Rose, the Pacific Palisadesbased actress and founder of holistic lifestyle blog The Local Rose, is expanding her skin-care line to include Glow Face Balm, a decadent anti-aging brew of frankincense, nourishing rose-hip seed, and camellia and argan oils blended in a beeswax, shea butter and coconut oil base. $60; thelocalrose.com.

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SEA CHANGE

Santa Barbara Surf Scrub, $23.

Khol eyeliner in Jet Black, $20.

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SMOKE AND MIRRORS “My favorite makeup look is a smoky eye, and I’m a perfectionist when it comes to delivering that just-right, sultry [look],” says celebrity makeup artist Jillian Dempsey. It’s no wonder then that her debut namesake product was a khol eyeliner. The waterproof, yet smudgeable pencil is made with organic jojoba oil and shea butter and available in jet black and rich brown shades.

“I developed a product that not only stands up to the heat of the cameras, but is also good for your skin,” she says. Expect more eye products to begin rolling out in the fall. jilliandempsey.com.

When Santa Barbara-based couple Chelsey and Rob Wang began researching the ingredients in their everyday skin-care products, they were astonished to find items labeled “natural” or “organic” contained synthetic chemicals that could lead to serious side effects like infertility, asthma and cancer. So, they created Luxe de Mer, a safe, yet decadent face and body line. Standouts include the Gentle Face Cleanser (made with vegetable glycerin and rose water) and the Jasmine Dry Body Oil (maracuja and jojoba oils, vitamin E, jasmine essential oil). $21-$176; luxedemer.com.

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The latest crop of powerhouse sun protectants pairs innovation with luxury 2

1 La Mer’s Reparative SkinTint SPF 30 provides an airbrushed translucent glow while repairing the skin with its cell-renewing, nutrient-rich sea blend. Available in five shades. $95; neimanmarcus.com.

2 Head to Aēsop's West Third Street apothecary— opening this month in L.A.—to scoop up the Avail Body Lotion with Sunscreen, a lightweight water-resistant SPF 50 formula made with lemon, spearmint leaf and soothing vitamin E. $41; aesop.com.

3 Natura Bissé's C+C Vitamin line uses macromolecules to neutralize free radicals while a cocktail of fatty acids, collagen, and vitamins D and F combats aging. From $60; naturabisse.com.

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WRITTEN BY CAROLINE CAGNEY. DEMPSEY: NATASHA CALZATTI

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Out of Thin Air

DESIGN

L.A. artist Elyse Graham creates oneof-a-kind vases, one breath at a time

BY MAILE PINGEL

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or artist Elyse Graham, an unlikely combination of materials and process inspired a collection of vases that, while hollow, are filled with a certain mystery.

“I love seeing people’s first reaction to my work—especially when they guess that it’s either glass or ceramic and I tell them it’s neither,” says Graham. The artist, who also produces the sculptural jewelry line Elephant Heart from her Lincoln Heights studio, casts her Drip Vases from balloons, coating the interiors with layers of resin and outside surfaces with plaster to spectacular, saturated effect. “I hand-mix the dyes and pigments as I work, so each piece is composed of a completely unique set of colors,” she explains. It marks Graham’s first foray into decorative objects, a practice she began just over a year ago. “Each balloon’s shape is informed by the breath it contains,” she adds. “I’m making a permanent, tangible object in the likeness of that invisible force.” From $125; elysegraham.com.

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Design Opener

Excess resin drips out of the top of each handdyed vase, creating a frozen-in-motion effect.

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LOS ANGELES

Start Fresh

This month, Viyet, the NYC-based online retailer of pre-owned luxury furnishings, launches in L.A. “Los Angeles is brimming with beautiful homes so it’s the perfect community for us,” says CEO Elizabeth Brown of the expansion. One call summons a curator to evaluate your items and prep them for sale—from photography to transport. Sound easy? It is. With consignments from private collections and renowned showrooms, and designers like Molly Luetkemeyer and Trip Haenisch culling their favorite finds, it’s an intrepid curator’s nirvana. viyet.com.

FROM TOP The Viyet team: CEO Elizabeth Brown, VP of Business Development Jennifer Koen and Founder Louise Youngson-Klasfeld. A 1940s French art deco console, originally purchased from Jean de Merry, $2,615.

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Design EARTHLY Bits PLEASURES “The mere sight of a palm tree when I arrive from New York makes my shoulders drop,” says interior designer and avid green thumb Charlotte Moss. “There’s an ease of gardens in California.” Moss’ latest book, Garden Inspirations (Rizzoli, $50), walks readers through her own lush Hamptons estate, while offering myriad landscaping ideas and a look at her favorite outdoor environs around the world. (“European gardens can be interpreted in any climate, it’s just the plantings that change,” she says.) See a stunning example (and one of Moss’ personal favorites) for yourself on May 16, when Virginia Robinson Gardens in Beverly Hills hosts its annual tour. 1008 Elden Way, B.H.; 310-276-5367; robinsongardens.org.

of azure are turning up on a Marble Marvels Swirls range of home accessories this spring CHRISTOPHER SPITZMILLER plate, $95, hollyhockinc.com.

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JULIA KOSTREVA any-year daily planner, $32, juliakostreva.com.

1882 LTD jug, $54, barneys.com.

HAAND Cloudware cups, set of three, $99, haand.us.

WORKADAY HANDMADE large vase, $150, theprimaryessentials.com.

WRITTEN BY MAILE PINGEL. VIYET: GENEVIEVE GARRUPPO. CRAFTING COMMUNITY: KIMBERLY GENEVIEVE. VIRGINIA ROBINSON GARDENS: MOR WEIZMAN

For Karen Kimmel and Stacy Bernstein, family time is fun time—so much so that they created Crafting Community (craftingcommunity.com), a series of all-inclusive weekend retreats that bring kids and parents together. This month (May 1-3), they return to the Ace Hotel & Swim Club in Business partners Palm Springs with a roster of activities Karen Kimmel and including underwater photography, yoga, Stacy Bernstein. skateboarding and tie-dye. “Seeing a family come together through creative endeavors puts a smile on our faces,” says Kimmel. When the pair aren’t organizing ice cream socials and desert discos, they’re frequenting a short list of eclectic haunts in Palm Springs and Los Angeles: RAYMOND LAWRENCE An incredible selection of colorful Lucite. 830 N. Palm Canyon Dr., P.S., 760-322-3344. A LA MOD Requisite midcentury goods and pieces from the ’80s. 844 N. Palm Canyon Dr., P.S., 760-327-0707. VINTAGE OASIS A serious selection of retro pinball machines. 373 S. Palm Canyon Dr., Studio A, P.S., 760-778-6224.

POTTED A wonderful garden shop with gorgeous ceramics made by local artists. 3158 Los Feliz Blvd., L.A., 323-665-3801. INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY An awesomely eclectic shop of earthy, groovy artisanal home accessories. 3176 Glendale Blvd., L.A., 323-665-5344.

A sweeping view of the great lawn and historic estate of Virginia Robinson in Beverly Hills.

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FROM LEFT Artist

Liana Yaroslavsky.

The Murano chandelier table aglow.

SHADES OF AMBER

Calabasas-based interior designer and shop owner Amber Lewis delivers her go-to sources for creating an eclectic home Amber Lewis

STOCK LIST Vintage textile pillows,

Cisco Home furniture, Tensira African indigo textiles, Moroccan rugs and Pigeon Toe Ceramics—all carried in my online shop. GO-TO REFERENCE BOOK Commune: Designed in California (Abrams Books). LOCAL LOVE AFFAIRS Photographer George Byrne and ceramic artist Heather Levine.

HOME FRAGRANCE Fresh lilies and Maison Louis Marie’s No. 4 Bois de

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Balincourt candle. DESIGN ICON Spanish designer Luis Galliussi for interiors. DAILY INSPIRATION clementpascal.tumblr.com.

ENTERTAINING STYLE Alfresco buffet.

SHOPPING ABROAD Portobello Market in London. CURRENT PROJECTS Houses in Santa Monica, Laurel Canyon and Newport Beach, as well as a new brickand-mortar store opening in Calabasas this August. amberinteriordesign.com.

Prints by Peter Dunham for Natural Curiosities in a master bedroom designed by Lewis.

PINK WALL, 2014, George Byrne, georgebyrne.com.

MAISON LOUIS MARIE No. 4 Bois de Balincourt candle, $34, stevenalan.com.

A teenage girl’s bedroom in a Westlake Village project.

CAROLINE Z HURLEY throws, $140 each, amberinteriordesign.com.

HEATHER LEVINE one-of-a-kind wall hanging, $475, heatherlevine.com.

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A worldly assortment of pillows.

COMMUNE: DESIGNED IN CALIFORNIA, Abrams Books, $60, communedesign.com.

WRITTEN BY MAILE PINGEL. YAROSLAVSKY: CECIL MATHIEU. LEWIS: MIKE LEWIS. BLUE ROOM AND LOUNGE: LISA ROMEREIN FOR SUNSET MAGAZINE. TOWELS AND PILLOWS: TESSA NEUSTADT

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hroughout history, the Greek monster Medusa, with her mangled serpent hair, has been a favorite subject for artists of every medium.

Now the Gorgon is making a 21st-century appearance with Russianborn artist Liana Yaroslavsky’s bewitching Medusa table, composed of a Plexiglas box and mirror base containing the snaking, glowing branches of a Venetian crystal chandelier—the top of which breaks dramatically through the surface. “This remarkable series is a limited edition, which speaks to the quality of each individually crafted piece,” says Stefan Lawrence, who has represented the Paris-based Yaroslavsky at his Los Angeles gallery, Twentieth, for three years. Expect to see much more from the artist, who is moving to L.A. this summer to begin a number of interior design projects. “I’ve been in Paris for 25 years and I think change is healthy—plus the weather is unbeatable,” she says. From $29,000; Twentieth, 7470 Beverly Blvd., L.A., 323-904-1200; lianayar.com.

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DESIGN

WEST ELM pillow, $44, westelm.com.

TINA FREY DESIGNS trio of bowls and dish set, $175, barneys.com.

AERIN textured large vase and large urn vase, $595 each, aerin.com.

KARKULA basket chair, to the trade, karkula.com.

CIRCA LIGHTING Ted ceiling light, $693, circalighting.com.

JANUS ET CIE teak umbrella, $2,660, Janus et Cie, W.H.

Design Bits THE LACQUER COMPANY tray, $395, thelacquercompany.com.

A colorful outdoor living room by designer Jamie Bush features a custom coffee table by architect Bruce Bolander and vintage Italian wicker chairs.

Open Season

PATTERSON, FLYNN & MARTIN Amplitude abaca rug, to the trade, Patterson, Flynn & Martin, W.H.

As the days get longer, ready the outdoor living room with refined all-weather accents

ROCHE BOBOIS Escapade sofa, $6,460, Roche Bobois, Costa Mesa.

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NICKEY KEHOE Senufo stool, $475, 1stdibs.com.

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RH Ventana teak lantern, from $149, restorationhardware.com.

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Inside Octavia, designed by Michael Baushke of Apparatus Architecture.

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The scene at last year’s BottleRock Napa Valley festival.

Inside Atlas Social.

BELOW A street view of Cadet.

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Valley Highs

The need-to-know Napa guide for summer

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apa Valley has no shortage of year-round culinary draws, but come May 29-31, things reach fever pitch with the fifth annual BottleRock (bottlerocknapavalley.com), a three-day extravaganza devoted to all things wine, food and music. More than 100,000 attendees are expected to descend upon historic downtown Napa for the event, which pairs the country’s most lauded vintners, sommeliers and chefs (Dominique Crenn, Michael Mina, Michael Voltaggio) with an equally impressive musical lineup, from Robert Plant to Imagine Dragons.

But you don’t need a ticket to make the most of the region this summer: From a winemaker-approved bar to Charlie Palmer’s culinary debut in NorCal, there’s plenty happening offstage in and around town.

After closing its doors in 2014 for major renovations, Thomas Keller’s three-Michelin-starred The French Laundry is back in action, serving its internationally celebrated tasting menu out of temporary kitchens fashioned from four customized shipping containers. The ongoing facelift—the restaurant’s first in 20 years—is expected to include a remodeled entrance, newly expanded kitchens and courtyard, and a separate building to house both offices and The French Laundry’s vast wine collection. 6640 Washington St., Yountville, 707-944-2380; thomaskeller.com. • For a hands-on wine country experience, head to Franciscan Estate for the valley’s inaugural blending experience open to the public. Channel your inner sommelier with an hourlong class experimenting with five of the winery’s Bordeaux varietals to craft your own blend, while learning the secrets to creating the in-house Magnificat wine. “Mastering Magnificat: The Art of the Blend,” $50/person; 1178 Galleron Rd., St. Helena, 707-967-3830; franciscan.com. • Charlie Palmer gives us one more reason to swing by his Harvest Inn hotel in St. Helena with this month’s debut of Harvest Table, a 110-seat eatery that embraces produce primarily sourced from its five culinary gardens and two on-site bee colonies. Here, chef Levi Mezick turns out fare like roasted carrots with buttermilk and pan-roasted CONTINUED ON P.128

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Evangeline. At Harvest Table, chef Levi Mezick incorporates local produce in his dishes.

The pool at Charlie Palmer’s Harvest Inn. A sommelier in action at Franciscan Estate’s “Mastering Magnificat” class.

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Haute Chocolate

Beloved Bay Area chocolatier Guittard adds four new blends to its Collection Etienne line, crafted from sustainably sourced cacao beans from around the globe. Flavors range from the nutty Soleil d’Or milk chocolate to the extra-dark Nocturne multi-bean blend. guittard.com.

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In the Raw

Guittard’s new offerings, $5 each.

In Meredith Baird’s fourth book, the Los Angeles-based certified sommelier and raw chef harnesses the power of one extraordinary ingredient: coconut. Out this month, Coconut Kitchen (Familius, $20) highlights the superfood in everything from recipes like coconut “bacon” and kefir.

Baird’s tips also include ideas for adding coconut to your beauty routine with DIY shampoos, conditioners and face washes.

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Pressed Juicery’s charcoal juice, $6.50.

Everyone’s talking about the benefits of activated charcoal, a natural binding agent that cleanses the body and prevents buildup of toxic substances.

Reap the benefits with Pressed Juicery’s latest concoction, which combines the potent star ingredient with spinach, romaine, parsley and coconut. pressedjuicery.com.

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Second Helpings

Belcampo Meat Co.’s 1930s-inspired Santa Monica location.

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After a successful debut in Downtown’s Grand Central Market, Belcampo Meat Co. has opened another Los Angeles location in Santa Monica.

The old-fashioned butcher shop showcases the brand’s organic, humanely raised meats from its farm in Shasta Valley, as does the menu at the adjacent restaurant, with dishes such as deepfried quail salad and goat tartare. Even the cocktail list shines a spotlight on homegrown ingredients from the farm, including freshly picked grasses and fruits. 1026 Wilshire Blvd., S.M., 424-744-8008; belcampomeatco.com.

WRITTEN BY LESLEY McKENZIE AND LARK RUESCH. BAIRD: RACHEL GARAHAN. BELCAMPO: LAUREN DI MATTE

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Marco Bicego and Bloomingdale’s are pleased to invite you to celebrate the launch of their new in-store boutique and meet the Italian fine jewelry designer. The personal appearance and launch will take place on Saturday, May 9 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Fine Jewelry Department at Bloomingdale’s San Francisco. marcobicego.com.

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Todd Reed’s designs combine contemporary architecture with sophistication and tradition. Each piece is handcrafted in one of their two flagship stores in Venice or Boulder. Here, an 18-karat yellow-gold pendant necklace with autumn-color diamonds surrounding a fancy-cut diamond center stone. $16,720; 1511 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Venice, 310-450-7840; toddreed.com.

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All manner of services are at guests’ fingertips, including the spa, game fishing, a personal submarine, five restaurants and bars, and sailing.

f your criteria for a private-island birthday bash include a place you can land your Gulfstream G550, invite 70 of your nearest and dearest, laze on snow-white sands, and jet around in a DeepFlight Super Falcon submarine, Fiji’s Laucala Island is a natural choice. There are also coconut plantations, deserted beaches, coral-filled reefs and lush jungles to seal the deal. The resort, set on the truly paradisiacal 4.6-square-mile island owned by Red Bull co-founder Dietrich Mateschitz, is not only a playground for thrill-seekers—with sailing, game fishing, surfing, diving, horseback riding and jet-boating on offer—but also features more mainstream activities including cooking classes, golf (there’s an 18hole championship course) and spa-ing.

Treatments in the four spa suites are totally customizable and showcase the island’s native ingredients like freshly pressed virgin coconut oil, hibiscus flowers and papaya.

Beauty product junkies can even concoct their own elixirs using herbs, flowers and fruits picked in the garden and mixed in the in-house kitchen. In fact, the resort is 85 percent sustainable, with a hydroponic 240-acre farm that provides much of the five restaurants and bars’ products, from veggies and spices to Wagyu beef, Peking duck and coconut crabs.

A complete island takeover goes for an all-inclusive $150,000 per day (minimum five days), or you can visit Eden sans entourage by reserving one of the 25 luxuriously appointed, thatched-roof villas of varying size (rates from $4,600 per night). Each comes with its own stunning and unique view, buggy, and infinity-edge pool that’s ripe for a magical tiki-torchlit midnight dip. The ultimate one-of-a-kind underwater experience, however, is courtesy of that winged submersible—something no other resort can offer. laucala.com.

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It’s time to forget your abysmal airline expectations, because getting to Laucala on Fiji Airways’ 10½-hour direct flight from Los Angeles to Nadi is actually memorable—in a good way. Get a taste of Fijian hospitality in the recently opened business-class lounge at LAX’s Tom Bradley International Terminal before boarding the airline’s brand-new planes, each serving a menu created by celebrity chef Lance Seeto. Eight-degree lie-flat beds in business class stocked with plush pillows and blankets make it feel like you are already on vacation. fijiairways.com.

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No Filter

Todd Hido’s Untitled #10474-c, 2011.

Bay Area photographer Todd Hido charts a woman in all her mellifluous forms

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rand-new gallery Casemore Kirkeby—the latest venture from Julie Casemore and gallerist Stefan Kirkeby, set to open soon in the Dogpatch area of San Francisco—chose Todd Hido for its first collaboration.

Images of the fine-boned Khrystyna Kazakova—Oaklandbased photographer Hido’s model and muse—are always archetypal and often feminine: the come-hither seductress, the fecund mother, the ’50s-era Holly Golightly. Nearly 25 of Hido’s archival photographs are on display via the gallery at Paris Photo Los Angeles at Paramount Pictures Studios early this month (May 1-3), alongside 264 other prestigious WRITTEN AND EDITED BY ELIZABETH KHURI CHANDLER

artists hailing from as far afield as Iran and Argentina.

The fact that Casemore and Kirkeby chose to begin their gallery of contemporary photographic practices with a Hido project is no accident. “Hido is at an exciting turning point in his career right now,” says gallery director Jennifer O’Keeffe. “Disparate elements of his work are coming together to form a greater narrative, one that is more personal and autobiographical in nature. His work with Khrystyna and her shifting personas—women who seem to be hybrids of fantasy and personal memory—represents one of these threads.” casemorekirkeby.com; toddhido.com.

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Spring Reading A GOD IN RUINS After the resounding success of Life After Life, Kate Atkinson continues the journey by following the brother of that novel’s main character through World War II and beyond (Little, Brown and Co., $28).

The exhibition space with Josephine Pryde’s images.

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ritish curator Jamie Stevens strolls the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts and surveys his new kingdom. He’s about to launch his first show here, smack in the middle of the design district in Potrero Hill in San Francisco. “We’re interested in the status of the photograph,” says Stevens, formerly of the artist-run Cubitt Gallery in London. For his debut exhibition, the internationally renowned institute commissioned a series of photographs and sculpture by British artist Josephine Pryde for the front gallery and curated work by New York performance artist Julia Heyward for the second gallery. “I’m interested in how the repercussions of photography are used as a tool to ask urgent questions about society,” says Stevens.

Pryde’s 20 to 25 new works focus on hands: how they interact with knowledge and technology. Some are juxtaposed against fabric; others against iPads. Together with a childsize moving model train sculpture for visitors to ride while viewing—“an absurdly modest experience,” Stevens notes—attendees can ponder how “these sensations are defining how we experience things.”

The Pryde show is indicative of the latest wave at the Wattis. Since new director Anthony Huberman (founding director of The Artist’s Institute in New York) joined in 2013, followed by Stevens in 2014, the nonprofit affiliate of California College of the Arts has taken on a fresh identity.

Previously rather group-focused, shows are now Wattis curator mostly single artist-focused, and commissions are a Jamie Stevens. major priority. Personal touches in the new space on Kansas Street—now separate from the college—such as an Oscar Tuazon-designed bar for meetings, further shine a spotlight on creators. “We want the institution to have as much personality as possible,” says Stevens. “Standard practices are not the default.”

May 5-Aug. 1; 360 Kansas St., S.F., 415-355-9670; wattis.org. •

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BOTH SIDES OF SUNSET A follow-up to Looking at Los Angeles, and with a foreword by Ed Ruscha, this coffee table book captures Los Angeles in its messy, sprawling glory (Metropolis Books, $75).

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DRUGSTORE CAMERA An intimate array of Dennis Hopper’s photographs taken with disposable cameras during the filming of Easy Rider make up this latest release of the late maverick’s work (Damiani, $45).

THE ARGONAUTS CalArts instructor Maggie Nelson’s fluid memoir depicts falling in love with multifaceted sculpture, performance and video artist Harry Dodge (Graywolf Press, $23).

SOME LUCK The Pulitzer Prizewinning author of A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley continues her fictional series following the Langdon family through the ’50s (Knopf, $27).

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nside an airy 1930s-era brick building on Ritch Street in San Francisco’s South of Market district, two former classmates from MIT’s Sloan School of Management and their team are plotting the next wave for the art world. “Digital art is postmodern art,” says Kimberly Gordon, co-founder and CEO of Depict, an online marketplace that launched late 2014 where in-house curators collaborate with artists to sell original digital pieces. “And we’re opening up a new channel that doesn’t require the buy-in needed in the traditional art world.”

Backed by investors including Jim Pallotta (who co-owns the Boston Celtics and is president of the A.S. Roma soccer team) and Weili Dai (co-founder of Marvell Technology), among others, Gordon and co-founder Shambhavi Kadam are targeting digital art collectors. The pieces are inspected for resolution, and then sold in unique editions thanks to technology that embeds an invisible signature on each image. These signatures mean that even if the work emerges on the open Internet, its exact provenance can be traced.

“We’ve created a way to manufacture scarcity, much like a lithograph or a photograph,” explains Gordon. They also have a subscription service that loans out digital art to users, who can then buy the work at the end of the month if they like it, and a third business model: the company’s pièce de résistance, a high-resolution digital frame designed by Branch Creative. If a user buys a piece of art on Depict they can “cast” it to their frames anywhere in their home. The duo is betting that serious digital art collectors will want to see work on a backdrop that channels paper. “It’s elegant. We wanted it to feel like an analog piece,” says Kadam of the $1,800 object, framed in American maple. “It will surprise you when the image starts moving.” depict.com.

Kimberly Gordon sits next to a prototype of the company’s frame, which displays Sleeping Beauty

by Evan Lane.

Digital work Eye Screams by Kylea Borges.

Depict’s SoMa offices.

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Choreographer Mark Morris’ epic interpretation of Purcell’s 1689 opera Dido and Aeneas was a breakout moment for the artist in the ’80s. Morris danced the dual roles of Dido and the evil sorceress, playing off the notions of femininity and using his expressive, spare movement to underscore the structure of Purcell’s music, rendering the tragedy of Dido’s love for Aeneas profound.

After retiring the dance-opera for several years, Morris now sits behind the podium to conduct 20 singers, 12 dancers and the Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra through a classic in the canon of modern dance. May 15-16; 4242 Campus Dr., Irvine, 949-854-4646; thebarclay.org.

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OSE BYRNE is having an out-of-body moment over breakfast at Santa Monica’s Shutters on the Beach hotel. “Every now and then I get flashes of my 25-year-old self: This memory or feeling of a place—I go back there,” says the New Yorkbased Australian actress, now 35.

Over scrambled eggs, the doe-eyed star is reliving her Hollywood past: She called Los Angeles home for a tumultuous year in her mid-20s, after shooting the 2004 epic Troy. “I found it hard. It was 10 years ago, so the trauma has evaporated slowly,” she confides with a laugh.

“I love coming back now—my brother lives here and some of my best friends—but at the time I didn’t have much work and it got me down. A working actor is a happy actor; I was unhappy.”

Times have changed: This week she’s spending her days holed up in a house in Laurel Canyon with Susan Sarandon filming the movie The Meddler, a dramedy about a recent widow, Marnie (Sarandon), who goes to Hollywood to be closer to her daughter (Byrne), and the unexpected reawakening she finds there. Written and directed

by Lorene Scafaria, the film also stars newly minted Oscar winner J.K. Simmons. The experience, as described by Byrne, has a halcyon, Ladies of the Canyon ring about it.

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Sarandon; what a privilege,’ ” she says. “Those are the moments that you’re doing it for, for the pleasure of telling a story.” She pauses, playing back the statement in her head: “Which sounds very lofty.”

A native of Balmain, a Sydney suburb, Byrne studied at New York’s Atlantic Theater Company, subsequently garnering small parts in Star Wars: Episode II—Attack of the Clones and Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, and lived in L.A. and London before returning to New York and landing her Emmy-winning role in FX’s thriller series “Damages” alongside Glenn Close. She won over a legion of new fans with a dead-on turn as glossy-maned, best friend-stealing, puppy-gifting perfectionist Helen in Bridesmaids, a 2011 film co-written by and starring Kristen Wiig and directed by Paul Feig. The surprise runaway hit proved, as many (patronizing) headlines attested, “women are funny,” and crucially, that female narratives can amass major earnings at the box office—a topic Byrne has plenty to say about.

“There is a market for femaledriven projects, and a consumer —Insurgent and Cinderella are two recent examples, speaking purely on a monetary level—but it’s still totally unbalanced,” she says. “Eighty percent of the time I’m waiting to find out who’s got the male role before they’ll start discussing the female part. It’s hard to ignore because that’s what you’re hearing, and that’s unfortunately the reality.”

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TASTE BRUCE GREGGA AND WILLIAM LAMAN CURATE A COLLECTED, GLOBAL HOME IN MONTECITO

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In the living room, Gregga says he “made a marriage of metallics” and used an antique mirror to surround the mantel, adding reflection and depth to the room.

He bought the oil painting by Fernando Botero in Mexico City in 1958, before the artist was well known.

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NTERIOR DESIGNER BRUCE Gregga and antiquesshop owner William Laman have carried their beloved art and furniture from home to home over the course of 30 years, so a look inside their Montecito living room is a bit like peeking into their well-worn passports.

Collections of porcelain, artwork and rare furniture span the globe from Mexico City to Paris to Argentina.

“You’ll never see a lot of clutter here; Bruce edited everything,” Laman says of the seamless mix of styles and centuries. “You enjoy the empty spaces as much as those that are filled with furniture.” After finding their 1960s California ranch home three years ago, Gregga opened up a few rooms to create a better flow. The airy allure can also be attributed to Gregga’s signature custom blend of white paint, a shade that his former Chicago design team dubbed “BG White.” It’s a warm hue he calls “not yellow, just mellow” that is as flattering in a bare entryway as it is for a backdrop to their worldly art and furniture collection, which includes an original Botero oil painting and bookcases that once belonged to legendary composer Cole Porter.

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the kitchen gets a brilliant shot of blue and white, playing off the couple’s collection of English china and Delftware from Holland. Here Gregga turned a former maid’s room into an adjacent sitting room, lining the walls with indigo linen and surrounding the fireplace in discontinued decorative tiles made in L.A.—there were so few remaining in the batch that they finished the project with less than half a piece left.

The partners go on frequent buying trips for their Montecito store, finding pieces and inspiration everywhere. When it came time to re-engineer the exposed, circular driveway, they recalled wandering down a lane of rounding hedges in Paris, wondering where the magic might lead. To their surprise it spit them out in front of an Abercrombie & Fitch, but nevertheless they used that mental postcard to transform their front yard into a more private entry filled with hedges, boxwoods, topiaries and pea gravel.

After creating a private oasis inside and out, Gregga says he’s happy to walk in and close the door, surrounded by their possessions, which really are memories and stories. “Bruce was inspired by that curve and rhythm and understated elegance; it really is a breathtaking approach,” Laman says. “When you travel and are inspired, it translates.” •

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William Laman (left) and Bruce Gregga with their terrier, Mazie, in front of their Montecito home.

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A pair of black 19thcentury Hollywood Regency Spoon Back chairs was found at Ed Hardy Antiques in San Francisco. An antique Chinese secretary desk is painted in what Laman and Gregga call a “strange, beautiful green.” A white Picasso platter rests on a console. In the blueand-white sitting room off the kitchen, their collection of original Delftware includes two rare tobacco jars.

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Outside, the couple conjured up a lane in Paris as inspiration to add privacy to their home via curving hedges and lots of greenery. OPPOSITE Mazie lounges on her bed, a sofa they’ve kept for years, under a painting Gregga spotted from an escalator at Marshall Fields in Chicago.

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In the dining room, a pair of brass-and-walnut bookcases were originally designed by Billy Baldwin for Cole Porter’s apartment in the Waldorf Astoria. The table, which is more commonly covered in books than dishes, is surrounded by chairs from India.

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IGH ABOVE Carmel Valley beside rugged Halls Ridge, a Southern California family has created a rustic retreat in the embrace of ancient California live oaks and madrones.

Anchored by massive sheltering bluestone walls, the superbly delineated residence—which has won several architectural design awards—opens to a shimmering pool to reveal miles of undulating hills in this remote and pristine terroir.

Crafted in cedar and reclaimed barnwood, this mountain escape is a modernist update of the California farm building vernacular, designed as a frame for the landscape. The Santa Lucia Preserve where it’s located (Big Sur is less than 30 miles to the south) has over the centuries been home to a Native American community, Spanish explorers, Franciscan missionaries, Mexican

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land-grant ranchers, a brief and dramatic visit by Robert Louis Stevenson, and later, in the 20th century, cattle ranches and an equestrian center. But it’s the majestic Santa Lucia Mountains and miles of untouched hillsides that are now the focus of scrupulous preservation and conservancy.

When the current residents acquired their property some years ago, their goal was to protect the unscathed landscape and to make the retreat almost invisible, sitting lightly on the land. They hired architects Peter Bohlin and Greg Mottola of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, and Monterey landscape designer Bernard Trainor, all experts in thoughtful eco concepts and understated design.

With no other buildings in sight, the 1,500-square-foot residence is nearly undetectable with just the sculptural 2-foot-thick wall and chimney like protective sentinels.

Sited on a former cattle ranch at 1,800 feet elevation, the 50-acre

Mottola and Bohlin designed industrial-style sliding doors to open the house in summer and shelter during winter storms. Western red cedar was used throughout the house.

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ridgetop property has only two acres of buildable land. Mottola and Trainor embraced the gritty, raw and tough terrain. They took a restrained approach, distilling and focusing each element. “Our concept for this very powerful and almost mythical landscape was to keep everything minimal,” says Mottola.

Trainor’s method was to gently sculpt and shape stone pathways and terraces, maintaining a rustic and tranquil feel. His landscape design looks natural, with the addition of evergreen coast live oaks (which thrive in dry coastal climates) to augment indigenous groves.

“We wanted to blur the edge of designed and native landscape elements and reveal the surrounding slopes,” says Trainor, who grew up in Australia and has an ingrained understanding of thirsty land and rocky sites.

Wild ground covers, planted to conserve water, include manzanitas, coastal wood fern, coyote mint, silver lupine,

Sonoma sage and California fescue. Hot-weather shrubs planted to highlight the layering of ridges include Montara mugwort and several varieties of wild lilac.

The swimming pool, sheltered from prevailing winds by the dry-stacked wall, has a slate-gray plaster over gunite interior to best reflect passing clouds and drifts of afternoon mist that float up from the coast. Slivers of bluestone give the pool its defining rim.

Cedar throughout the house creates a calm, simple palette.

Floors in the entrance, living room and kitchen of the residence are reclaimed oak from a barn. Cedar cladding and weathered zinc roofing were selected to create subtle camouflage.

Early on summer mornings, with traces of fog still hovering among the manzanitas, the family sets out for hikes, stopping to watch hovering hawks and listen to the wind and poetic silence.

For days, they do not leave the property. Tranquility, indeed. •

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“OUR CONCEPT FOR THIS VERY POWERFUL AND ALMOST MYTHICAL LANDSCAPE WAS TO KEEP EVERYTHING MINIMAL.”

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In the eclectic salon, painted in a custom blue-green shade using Benjamin Moore colors, a pair of suspended sculptures by Elyse Graham serve as a dramatic focal point.

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Sean Yashar (left) and Oliver M. Furth, photographed in their upstairs living room with cat Rudy Huxtable.

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“Oliver’s a hoarder,” says Sean Yashar affectionately of his significant other, interior decorator Oliver M. Furth. “But we call it something else instead: collector.” The accused, sitting on an oversized custom teal velvet upholstered couch he himself designed in the pair’s silver-painted upstairs living room, good-naturedly shrugs. “One of Sean’s first gifts to me was an engraved pen,” he replies.

“It said: ‘I like things.’ ” Visit the pair

in their two-story 1920s Spanish Revival home in South Carthay, where niche antiquarian mixes with modern and avant-garde, and this much is apparent right away—from the Thai headdresses that anoint a 1950s cocktail table to the Mike Mills print on the mantel to an 1850s pine Louis Philippe cabinet that doubles as wine storage, beautiful objects are never far from reach.

Friends before they became an item, thanks to circulating in the same industry (Yashar, 32, is the founder of The Culture Creative, a brand consultancy and talent discovery and management firm for the decorative arts, with clients including cult showroom Blackman Cruz, emerging maker duo Dougall Paulson and French luxury design brand Jean de Merry) the couple—both local natives—moved in together five years ago.

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little pocket; the McMansion thing hasn’t happened here,” says Yashar of their Mid-City locale. “That being said, our neighborhood got its first hipster coffee shop, Paper or Plastik Café, a few years ago—where the drinks are lukewarm because they don’t want to burn the beans and they add turmeric for no reason—so, you know, it’s coming.”

The blending of possessions was a delicate dance: “Sean is much more minimal than I am, and efficient in terms of the way that he does things,” says Furth, 34. “If there’s a chair, he sits on it. For me, well, there are 300 years of chairs in here, and I’m as attracted to the chair that’s 1830s as I am the chair that’s 1960s.

I like the tension between them and the negative space around them—that’s what feels modern and OPPOSITE, CLOCKWISE current and interesting.” Still, despite FROM TOP LEFT In the Yashar’s more functional instincts, he, conference room, a contemporary light like Furth, loves era-mashing: delighting fixture by Kalin Asenov in the juxtaposition of a rare stool by hangs over a retro mirrored table. A center neo-Baroque Hungarian designer Lajos table in the living Kozma with a West Elm center table room hosts a diverse collection of coffee table refinished in a crackle lacquer. books and 1970s acrylic Downstairs lies, in the couple’s geometric objects.

A photograph by Bianca words, “The World of I Like Things.” Brunner hangs over a While the kitchen, sitting room, master tufted Napoleon III bed in the master bedroom. bedroom and dressing room (a plush Furth’s industrial case hive of natty sartorial) all reside on the goods, part of his forthcoming collection upper floor, the ground floor is their of shelving and storage professional domain, complete with pieces, flank a 19thcentury Edo screen in CONTINUED ON P. 128 individual offices the salon.

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In the couple’s dressing room a customized fixture from Pottery Barn lights the space, replete with artwork spanning Patrick Nagel to Tanya Aguiñiga. OPPOSITE The moodboard in Yashar’s office features a Jean-Michel Frank-focused ad he designed for the L.A. Antiques, Art + Design Show: “I like creating content in design that speaks to a small group of people who pay attention,” he says.

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Modesto squab with poached plums, paired with what’s rumored to be Napa Valley’s largest offering of sparkling wines. 1 Main St., St. Helena, 707-9674695; harvesttablenapa.com. • When it comes to drinking like a local, look no further than the lively Cadet Wine and Beer Bar, frequented by area winemakers for its well-edited menu that showcases everything from natural wines to sour beers. Don’t miss Winemaker Wednesdays featuring a guest bartender series helmed by area producers who serve their own tipples, as well as a few of their personal favorites. 930 Franklin St., Napa, 707-224-4400; cadet beerandwinebar.com. • California meets the Creole at Evangeline, a New Orleansinspired casual French bistro in the heart of Calistoga, which opened its doors this spring. Crowd-pleasers include gumbo ya-ya and the Croque Marin (chef Brandon Sharp’s baconpacked take on a traditional Croque Madame), not to mention a NorCaldriven beer program and a curated list of New Orleans liquors. 1226 Washington St., Calistoga, 707-341-3131; evangeline napa.com. • One of the most buzzedabout new restaurants in recent memory, downtown Napa’s Atlas Social has garnered a sizable following with its shareable small plates and rusticmeets-modern vibe. 1124 First St., Napa, 707-258-2583; atlassocialnapa.com. •

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Ghostbusters: “Talk about someone who’s done a lot for women,” she comments. She reunites with the director on next month’s counterintelligence comedy Spy, also starring Bridesmaids alum Melissa McCarthy and Byrne’s real-life paramour Bobby Cannavale (“Boardwalk Empire,” Blue Jasmine).

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recently filmed together, including the Jamie Foxx-starring reboot of Annie and the just-released indie comedy Adult Beginners. “Not everybody is up to work with [their] other half,” she admits. “But making a movie is such a consuming experience; to share that is really great.”

Byrne recently took five months off, following the closing of the Broadway show You Can’t Take It With You, in which she co-starred with James Earl Jones, last fall. “By the end of a play, you feel it. You’re crashing from the adrenaline—it takes a minute,” she says. She traveled to Australia, Miami and upstate New York to decompress. (Cannavale’s Instagram documents the pair’s Down Under adventures with outdoorsy snaps from Tasmania’s Port Arthur and Cradle Mountain National Park.)

The break was a rare move for her: She has a habit of bookending projects, and speaks admiringly of colleagues who have the confidence to hold out for the right thing. “I think it’s really clever and patient and smart to not just launch yourself into something,” she says. “In the end it’s what you say no to. I’ve been more impulsive in my decision-making; hungry to learn and work and do as much as I can.”

The upshot of this is a resume that testifies to her range, which spans breastfeeding jokes with Seth Rogen in last year’s comedy Neighbors to a subtle, emotionally weighted performance opposite Bradley Cooper in the acclaimed 2012 drama The Place Beyond the Pines. “You have to keep reinventing things and showing different sides of yourself,” she says. “It’s not a foregone conclusion: like, you’ve arrived and you’re established!”

When she finishes shooting The Meddler, she will return to New York (on her list of anticipated homecoming events: reuniting with Cannavale) before shipping off to Montreal to reprise the character of CIA agent Moira MacTaggert in X-Men: Apocalypse. “I feel lucky they’ve asked me back,” she says.

“They do a really sophisticated job with an extremely popular genre. And I’m excited—I didn’t expect it.

Because, you know, I’m not a mutant.”

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There’s an authentic “who me?” quality about her: a self-deprecating humility paired with an openness and general curiosity about the world that means she “still pinches herself” every time she goes home to her Downtown apartment; wants to know what you’re doing this weekend; and is forever exploring new terrain: “Australians are adaptable and curious people—I think because we live so far away,” she says. “But you know, actors also have the pioneer spirit: We go out seeking new land.” •

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and a conference room.

The main space functions as a salon.

It’s here that Yashar’s latest enterprise AUX (pronounced “auxiliary”), an in-house think tank for projects in experimental design, art and craft, has its spiritual headquarters. A preview of AUX’s latest quarterly installment is on view: a series of limited-edition smartphone-sized “devices” by L.A. artist Sean Brian McDonald that are due to launch this summer, and arrayed on a bronze Dan Johnson Gazelle table.

Comprising upcycled fabric textiles, dark blue enamel paint, paper and Styrofoam, the pocket-sized sculptures are intended as a commentary on art for personal experience as opposed to display, as well as an invitation to resist the addiction to documentation: “People are not engaging with art when they’re looking at it because they’re too busy shooting it with their phones,” explains Yashar. “It’s about replacing your phone with this thing that will curb your need to hold something while looking—like a patch.”

Furth is equally committed to fostering new ideas and talent: In addition to his practice, which he launched in 2005, he consults for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (where he’s chair emeritus of the museum’s Decorative Arts and

Design Council), and recently cofounded LA><ART><DESIGN, a sister organization to independent visual arts nonprofit LA><ART, devoted to bringing attention to the city’s burgeoning scene.

“I saw a white space: There’s no group here that’s focused on contemporary design. Meanwhile, you go to New York and there are three design museums— and L.A. is glutted with talent,” Furth says. Plans include yearly exhibitions, studio visits, lectures with local and out-of-town talents, and visits to collectors’ homes.

“We’re two sides of the same coin,” says Yashar. “Design is the common thread of it all, and this is our lab.” He points out a geometric walnut and metal ceiling fixture prototype by SCAD graduate Kalin Asenov that hangs in the conference room, panels of handpainted metallic white and yellow gold wallpaper Furth is developing in collaboration with an L.A.-based painter, and a pair of lacquered suspended sculptures by artist Elyse Graham—in the process of being adapted as light fixtures. “It might end up working and it might not,” he says. “But we’re happy to be the guinea pigs.” olivermfurth.com; theculturecreative.com. •

C FASHION INTO THE WILD p.54 The Elder Statesman 50-by-50-inch pashmina handkerchief, $1,295, The Elder Statesman, W.H., 424-288-4221, elder-statesman.com. Valentino Garavani brown Eye on You bucket bag, $2,175, Valentino, S.F., 415-772-9835. Proenza Schouler slingback espadrille, $545, barneys.com. Lisa Marie Fernandez poppy maillot swimsuit, $390, lisamariefernandez.com. Coleman Northstar candle lantern, $20, coleman.com. Best Made Company small metal first-aid kit, similar styles available, Best Made Company, N.Y., 646-4787092; bestmadeco.com. 7 For All Mankind relaxed shorts, $138, 7 For All Mankind, Newport Beach, 949-640-0138. Bell & Ross WW1 Guynemer watch, $3,400, Hamilton Jewelers Pavilions, Sacramento, 916-927-2300; bellross.com. Chloé crocodile embossed Faye crossbody, $990, Chloé, Madison Avenue, N.Y., 212-717-8220. Current/Elliott halter top, $118, currentelliott.com. Prada sunglasses, $450, Prada, B.H., 310-278-8661. Stanley classic one hand vacuum mug in hammertone green, $30, shopstanley-pmi.com. Frame Denim Le Grand Garcon jeans in Inglewood, $250, Diani Boutique, S.B., 805-966-3114; dianiboutique.com. Pendleton Woolen Mills jacquard Glacier National Park spa towel, $49, 800-649-1512; pendleton-usa.com.

Janessa Leone Panton hat, $251, janessaleone.com.

Miansai orange alligator bracelet, $125, Saks Fifth Avenue, B.H., 310-275-4211. Ulla Johnson hand loomed cotton Cusco wrap in claro, $380, Heist, Venice, 310-450-6531.

Arpels between the finger Virevolt ring, $30,800, Van Cleef & Arpels, B.H., 310-276-1161.

LA VIE EN ROSE p.90 Dior printed silk faille dress, $10,000, Dior, 800-929-3467. Nicholas Kirkwood double S knee Serafin lace-up boots, $1,790, nicholaskirkwood.com.

Vita Fede double cubo pearl earrings, $775, Neiman Marcus, B.H., 310-550-5900; vitafede.com. Chanel white gold pearl Ombre de Charme bracelet, price upon request, white gold and pearl Ombre de Charme watch, price upon request, Ruban Mademoiselle ring, $390,000, and Lion Astral bracelet, $324,000, Chanel, 800-550-0005. p.91 Delpozo jacquard and organdy strapless flared dress, $6,650, Delpozo, Miami, 305-573-1009. Cartier rose gold Paris Nouvelle Vague ring, $10,100, Cartier, B.H., 310-275-4272. p.92 Oscar de la Renta white English garden embroidered silk organza dress, $4,290, Oscar de la Renta, L.A., 323-653-0200. Vintage belt, stylist’s own. Jacquie Aiche rose gold double row diamond ear band, $625, jacquieaiche.com. Bulgari multicolored Flora earrings, $8,450, bulgari.com. p.93 Miu Miu top, see Table of Contents, white cloque skirt, $2,265, and cloque belt, $305, Miu Miu, B.H., 310-247-2227. Chanel white gold Boucles de Camélia earrings, $56,500, and white gold Sculpted Onyx Camilia ring, $170,000, Chanel, 800-550-0005. Nicholas Kirkwood boots, see p.90. p.95 Bottega Veneta flamingo banane gingham check viscose dress, $5,100, and flamingo banane gingham check viscose yarn cardigan, $1,350, Bottega Veneta, B.H., 310-858-6533. Tiffany & Co. hinged bracelet, $250,000, Tiffany & Co., B.H., 310-273-8880. p.96 Prada dress, $2,640, Prada, B.H., 310-278-8661; prada.com. Van Cleef & Arpels yellow gold Frivole earrings, $6,500, Van Cleef & Arpels, B.H. 310-2761161; vancleefarpels.com. p.97 Michael Kors sundress and skirt, see On Our Cover, Michael Kors, B.H., 310-777-8862. Van Cleef & Arpels earrings and ring, see On Our Cover. MAKEUP Chanel Hydra Beauty Micro Sérum, $110, Vitalumière Aqua sunscreen makeup, $47, Hydra Beauty lip care, $50, and Inimitable Intense mascara, $32, chanel.com. Laura Mercier Invisible Loose Setting Powder, $35, and Eyebrow Pencil, $22, lauramercier.com. Kevyn Aucoin The Sculpting Powder, $44, and The Celestial Skin Liquid Lighting emulsion, $52, kevynaucoin.com.

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ON OUR COVER Michael Kors gingham double face wool sundress, $2,695, and marigold embroidered tulle skirt, $9,995, Michael Kors, B.H., 310-777-8862. Van Cleef & Arpels yellow gold Frivole earrings, $6,500, and between the finger Oiseaux de Paradis Volutes ring, $23,000, Van Cleef & Arpels, B.H., 310-2761161; vancleefarpels.com.

TABLE OF CONTENTS p.14 Chopard 49-carat rubelite ring with rubies and diamonds Red Carpet collection ring, price upon request, Chopard, C.M., 714-432-0963. p.16 Miu Miu silk top, $1,050, Miu Miu, B.H., 310-247-2227.

Chanel white gold Boucles de Camélia earrings, $56,500, Chanel, 800-550-0005. Jacquie Aiche rose gold double row diamond ear band, $625, jacquieaiche.com.

A Denim Story: Inspirations from Bellbottoms to Boyfriends (Rizzoli New York, $32.50), 2014.

GARDEN OF EDEN p.56 Stephen Webster rose gold It Started with Eve ring, $32,000, Stephen Webster, B.H., 310-246-9500. Sylva & Cie rose gold butterfly ring, $9,375, Saks Fifth Avenue, B.H., 310-275-4211.

Ileana Makri yellow gold Slither Snake ring, $4,245, ileanamakri.com. Wendy Yue spiderweb ring, $21,300, Neiman Marcus, B.H., 310-550-5900.

Daniela Villegas cat’s-eye alexandrite Poseidon ring, $13,750, modaoperandi.com. Chopard high jewelry collection apple ring, price upon request, South Coast Plaza, C.M., 714-432-0963. Roberto Coin garden collection ring, price upon request, Shreve & Co., S.F., 415-421-2600. Van Cleef &

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Kimberly McDonald Triple Water opal slice cuff, price upon request, Kimberly McDonald, W.H., 310-8540890. p.113 Kimberly McDonald tourmaline slice earrings, price upon request, Kimberly McDonald, W.H., 310-854-0890.

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California CAPTURING THE GOLDEN STATE OF MIND

STORY BYLINE

TIPPI HEDREN WITH NEIL IN SHERMAN OAKS, 1971 Actress Tippi Hedren, who’s most famous for her role in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, was filming 1970’s Satan’s Harvest in Africa when she and her then husband, producer Noel Marshall, discovered an abandoned game warden’s house in Mozambique that had been taken over by a pride of lions. The experience inspired an idea for a film about a family who shared their house with exotic cats. Upon their return to California, Hedren—whose daughter is actress Melanie Griffith—was advised by handler Ron Oxley that to truly understand these animals, they must live with one. Hedren agreed and allowed Oxley to bring Neil, a 400-pound lion, to hang out at her family’s Sherman Oaks home a few days a week. Neil was such a welcome addition (seen here posing for a Life magazine shoot) that the family began adopting cubs and in 1981 released the film Roar. Even though the film flopped at the box office (and is infamously regarded as the most dangerous movie set in history), Hedren’s devotion to wild animals never waned: In 1972, she opened the Shambala Preserve, a 72-acre sanctuary at the edge of the Mojave Desert that is currently home to more than 40 big cats who have suffered from gross mistreatment and neglect.

Now 85, Hedren has also successfully lobbied for legislation to prevent the transfer of wild cats across state lines.

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