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Thomas Lagrange “I thought of my huge empty beach in France’s Médoc’s region, where I love to lie in the sun,” says photographer Thomas Lagrange of his inspiration for this issue’s accessories portfolio, “Beach Baubles” (p.84). Based in Paris, Lagrange is a widely known fashion still-life photographer who often works with Prada, Louis Vuitton and French Vogue. C SPOTS • The Getty • Art Center College of Design in Pasadena (my alma mater) • Neptune’s Net for seafood in Malibu

Jennie Nunn After a design hunt with Grant K. Gibson in S.F. for “Best of the Bay” (p.59), writer Jennie Nunn says, “Grant is a design genius. It’s so inspiring just to be around him.” The S.F.-based writer also contributes to Los Angeles magazine, 7x7, California Home+Design and the S.F. Chronicle.

C SPOTS • Solage resort in Calistoga • John Lautner’s Elrod home in Palm Springs • The Palos Verdes cliffs

Colman Andrews “I decided at an early age that restaurants—especially warm, clubby places like Scandia [“Sublime Scandia,” p.74]—were the best places in the world,” says writer Colman Andrews. A native Angeleno, Andrews cofounded Saveur magazine and has authored four books on food. C SPOTS • Santa Monica Beach • The pool at the Four Seasons on Doheny Drive • Coast Village Road in Montecito

Matthias Vriens-McGrath “Having worked with Courtney Sava [C’s Design Director] in the Matthias Vriens-McGrath (on right), who photographed this month’s covergirl Ellen Pompeo for “Essentially Ellen” (p.94). The Dutch fashion and fine-art photographer resides in L.A. and NYC and is launching bl33n, an organic T-shirt line, with husband Donovan (on left) later this year. C SPOTS • bl33n’s Venice offices • Post Ranch Inn in Big Sur • Groundwork Coffee Shop on Rose Avenue in Venice

Christine Lennon “On a Saturday during a giant rainstorm, I didn’t expect her to be so grateful and positive,” says writer Christine Lennon of interviewing Ellen Pompeo for “Essentially Ellen” (p.94). The L.A.-based mother of twins frequently contributes to Elle, Vogue and Marie Claire. C SPOTS • Silverlake Wine has the best selection • Nearby Descanso Gardens • Paso Robles for family vacations

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s the seasons officially changed a few months back, I decided my jewelry drawer—mostly full of costume baubles mixed with a few precious items— was due for some spring cleaning. It had been sitting unattended for too long, unloved and unorganized. It got to a point where I was only using what I could reach, and whatever had fallen to the bottom of the black hole of the drawer seemed lost forever.

Diving into the project, I cleared off my bed to use as a surface. One by one, I placed things

on view, unwinding tangled necklaces and rediscovering bracelets I had forgotten. Earrings were paired with their rightful match, and family heirlooms were unearthed.

As I slowly and methodically cleaned and cleared, I made piles for pieces that were

broken and needed mending, or things with great sentimental memories but weren’t “wearable” in the foreseeable future. I laid out all of my statement collar necklaces that I love to throw over a plain black dress. I “merchandised” my baubles, and slowly it all started to take shape. Secretly, I was hoping to discover a hidden gem, perhaps a large cocktail ring I might not have remembered was in this mess. But alas, despite my hopes of discovering a buried treasure, no hidden gem surfaced.

Speaking of hidden gems, this issue is full of them. From the literal to the figurative.

Take, for instance, the Cullinan Necklace (“California’s Crown Jewels,” p.112). A specimen on the level of the Hope Diamond’s history and lore, the Cullinan Necklace was uncovered

by Bay Area estate jeweler Stephen Silver and recently gifted to the Smithsonian’s national gem collection. C has the exclusive story of how this treasure came out of a century of hiding and is poised to capture the imaginations of jewelry lovers around the world. We also present the very latest news about cutting-edge jewelry designers and innovative creations in our What’s Hot and C Fashion sections. And the best gems of the season get some beach time in a lush portfolio produced by famed Parisian photographer Thomas Lagrange (“Beach Baubles,” p.84). We are thrilled with the glittering results!

Another diamond in our midst is Ellen Pompeo. An actor who is beloved for her role as Meredith Grey on “Grey’s Anatomy,” C speaks with her about her new role as mother and life behind the scenes on the iconic show (“Essentially Ellen,” p.94). We also take a peek inside legendary supermodel Cheryl Tiegs’ lush and tropical Los Angeles home, designed with love and flair by her friend and devoted decorator, Martyn Lawrence-Bullard (“A Model Home,” p.100). Her abode is a perfect example of how one can be chic but comfortable at the same time…a truly Californian trait.

With the best of all things bejeweled, C presents its spring jewelry issue full of all things sparkling!

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Famous for exquisite design and quality (as seen in this lariat necklace), they now offer a strand of 25 white, perfectly matched South Sea cultured pearls.

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With a precious inventory of home decor that includes everything from Louis XVIperiod armchairs to a Macassar ebony and ostrich egg lamp, it’s no wonder L.a.-based interior designer Timothy Corrigan searched far and wide before selecting the perfect new showroom. On display behind the tony whitebrick façade is a vast antique collection and his eponymous elegant home line. 5818 W. Third St., L.A., 323-525-1802. A.S.

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Ooh-la-Lafayette Nestled in the hills east of Berkeley, Lafayette’s pulse is quickening thanks to an emergence of stylish eateries and cottage-like boutiques.

Duchess shows off an extensive lineup of labels such as Elizabeth & James. 925-962-0208. Head to Art & Science of Eyewear for hyper-exclusive frames made from paper-thin fiberglass and handcarved horn. 925-283-2244. Pair chic denim with trendy tops at Specialtees.

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925-283-9900. a romantic-rustic milieu and Stewart Beatty’s pan-roasted swordfish make for a memorable evening at Postino.

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alph Lauren’s athletic-inspired RLX collection is taking a turn for the chic and sophisticated, and the company has elected Malibu for the reconceived label’s first free-standing boutique. Visitors to the new RLX store in the Malibu Country Mart will discover lightweight separates for men and women infused with a casual ease and Ralph Lauren’s impeccable craftsmanship. Sheer cotton tanks and waffle-knit cashmere hoodies convey a highly active and effortlessly lux­urious way of life. The 1,500-square-foot store’s stark white walls and minimal, Californiainspired furnishings reflect RLX’s new airy, unencumbered point of view. 3835 Cross Creek Rd., Malibu, 310-456-5375; polo.com. N.C.

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parts of Africa, some experts say the ultra-rare gem was formed in a

supernova explosion billions of years ago. Others suggest it’s the product of shock metamorphism from a meteor colliding with the Earth. For L.A.-based jeweler Azature Pogosian, the stone with a mysterious past has a crystalclear future on the couture jewelry circuit.

Born and raised in Hollywood to a family of jewelers, Pogosian was always drawn to proportions, design and an urban aesthetic, but it wasn’t until his mid-20s he would find his way back to the family métier. “I wanted to be different and avoided the jewelry industry

Pogosian recruited a team of exFabergé craftsmen from Russia to create the more intricate designs from the Azature collection.

for a long time,” he says. Attending Parsons School of Design, the young entrepreneur embarked on a career in clothing design that would include stints with Alexander McQueen and Christian Dior before he embraced the inevitable. “Jewelry is in my blood, I just had

to accept it.” With an original and astute vision, Pogosian singled out the black diamond as the focus of his line, to much industry head-shaking about what’s often tagged the white diamond’s “ugly stepsister.”

“I’ve had a long relationship with the shade,” admits Pogosian, who for the past 12 years has not gone a day without wearing head-to-toe black (he is even looking to trademark a shade of greyish-black in the U.S.). Perhaps more than anything, Pogosian identifies with the paradox—it’s a true diamond, but it doesn’t have what diamonds are known for: their sparkle. “Everything about it is difficult; that’s what I love about it.”

Using his family’s connections to source the ultra-rare gems from a conflict-free mine in Brazil, Pogosian launched Azature in 2007 with his signature six-sided ring. The modern and artistic settings of the line quickly garnered a following among Hollywood’s fashion-forward, and in 2008 the brand expanded, rolling out a casual diffusion line, A.Z. by Azature, followed

by Azature Atelier, a custom one-of-a-kind service. “In a fast-moving town like L.A., where things are constantly changing and evolving, I’m always searching for what’s next,” says Pogosian. “Hopefully with Azature I’m making the future a little less distant.” azature.com.

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Le Passeport as the Musée d’Orsay in Paris closes for renovation, the de Young in S.F. will open its doors to receive 100 of the Musée’s Impressionist masterpieces. “The Birth of Impressionism” will feature works by Manet, Degas and Monet. June 5-Sept. 26; famsf.org.

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he highly anticipated reopening of the Oakland Museum of California on May 1st will reveal the yearlong renovation and expansion of its landmark Kevin Roche-designed building. A groundbreaking reinstallation of its collections will fill almost every inch of the 300,000-square-foot museum, with the galleries integrating new technologies to explore the Californian identity and reality. 1000 Oak St., Oakland, 510-238-2200; museumca.org.

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Art Intuition Santa Monica Museum of Art’s INCOGNITO sale returns May 1st as acclaimed and unknown artists alike donate work to benefit the museum. With each piece priced at $300, the identity of the artist is revealed only after purchase. smmoa.org.

Spring Flicks Director Thomas Balmes chronicles four newborns from around the world in Babies (May 7). The intersecting lives of three women (Naomi Watts, Annette Bening, Kerry Washington) are dramatized in Mother and Child (May 7). Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett star in Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood (May 14).

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Camilla Belle

chanel the house of Coco and camellias gathered a who’s who of SoCal sophisticates in l.a. for a dinner toasting the academy awards.

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black fleece thom Browne, designer of Brooks Brothers’ luxe label Black fleece, greeted San francisco’s fashionable set for the opening of the elite brand’s new Bay area boutique.

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QuEEn of thE SCEnE while look #42 of Chanel’s winter haute couture show originally featured a dramatic chiffon train, Diane Kruger kept things short and to the point (with Jimmy Choo shoes) in the dress for the house’s l.a. oscars dinner.

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Zac Posen a bevy of pretty young things converged at hollywood’s très chic Chateau Marmont hotel to catch up with perennial “it” designer zac Posen.

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Jamie Tisch, Frederic de Narp, Larissa Sabadash

a select set of Beverly hills’ most glamorous jewelry aficionados appeared at harry winston’s posh rodeo Drive store to greet the brand’s new CEo, frederic de narp.

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louis Vuitton’s Daniel lalonde welcomed a flurry of starlets to a rooftop cocktail party benefiting the red Cross’ relief efforts in haiti at the house’s Beverly hills flagship store.

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These new styles are more than arm candy. This season’s diamond-studded watches are sure to dazzle—Dior’s Christal mysterieuse even features a transparent caseback. K.M.

Gold Coast S.F. material girls are flocking to jeweler Frank Ancona’s new by-appointment salon. 179 Maiden Ln., S.F., 415-392-3232.

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FUlly EvolvED “my wife, Sybil, and I started this company with a love of sculpture and art to guide us,” says high-end jeweler David Yurman, who dropped out of NyU 30 years ago to pursue a career as an artist. Now, his brand rests at the forefront of the jewelry industry and yurman himself is an american icon.

Here’s to another three decades of classic, artistic design. davidyurman.com. K.M.

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T David Yurman Signature Cable bangles in gold with pavé diamonds, $895-$2,500.

he high art of the Japanese kimono shows through the distinct dyes, soft braiding and rich embroidery of Koi Suwannagate’s fall 2010 collection, but finding jewelry to complement the Japonesque aesthetic was another challenge.

The L.A.-based designer and CFDA nominee began experimenting with bold colored stones, ultimately creating Koi, her first collection of artistic jewels. koisuwannagate.com. K.M.

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Ex-Factor

The former wife of diamond scion Francois Graff, Zeta Graff joins the biz with ZG Jewelry. Maxfield, L.A., 310-274-8800.

ultivating her love of jewelry from an early age, L.A.-based connoisseur Hilary Tisch remembers admiring her mother’s Spratling and Pineda pieces. With a recent degree from the Gemological Institute of America and having trained at renowned jeweler Fred Leighton, Tisch is a practiced jeweler currently researching and amassing a private collection of antique and estate pieces.

Inspired by Mexican silver from the ’30s and ’40s, Tisch says they “carry energy and have a story. In this green age, vintage and estate jewelry are like recycling.” With hopes to design her own line and open a store in the near future, this industry insider shares some of her precious California go-to’s, plus her recent must-haves: • For amazing vintage jewelry finds I go to Rita Watnick at Lily et Cie. 9044 Burton Way, Beverly Hills, 310-724-5757.

• My other favorite for fab jewelry finds is my best friend’s store, Jenni Kayne. She always has an amazing selection, especially when it comes to great costume jewelry. 614 N. Almont Dr., West Hollywood, 310-860-0123; jennikayne.com. • The LA Modernism and Antiques Shows are great for jewelry. dolphinfairs.com/lamod ernism; losangelesantiqueshow.com. • I’m addicted to 1stdibs.com. Every Wednesday they upload new pieces to their ever-growing jewelry selection. • For wearable and everyday costume jewels I stop by House of Love & Luck. 370½ La Cienega Blvd., L.A., 310-657-9911; house ofloveandluck.com. • For fine jewelry repairs and custom pieces I use Eichberg Jewelers. 229 S. Beverly Dr., L.A., 310-271-4796; eichbergjewelers.com. S.T.

According to Tisch, every woman should own pearl earrings and a great watch: Mikimoto white South Sea pearl earrings, $4,900, mikimotoamerica.com. Rolex platinum Oyster Perpetual Datejust watch, rolex.com.

K.M.

World Piece

ZG Jewelry white diamond ring.

CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund winner Monique Péan launches her ecofriendly jewels in S.F. this spring at Barneys. Known for her work with recycled gold and conflict-free stones, the designer has created a line of Bay Area-inspired, one-of-akind pieces for the occasion. Barneys New York, S.F., 415-268-3500. S.T.

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Pump Protégé Shoe designer Gianvito Rossi earned his stripes working alongside his father (Sergio Rossi) before launching his own line in spring 2007. In addition to his namesake label, Rossi collaborated with fashion darling altuzarra this season. The line is stepping out in Ca for the first time at Saks Fifth avenue. saksfifthavenue.com. S.T.

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ver the lucky city, Las Vegas is host to Lanvin’s first West Coast boutique. The 3,000-square-foot elegant storefront is their third-largest in the world, with a theatrical floor-to-ceiling glass façade and their trademark 1930s interior decor. The Vegas location is the first U.S. store to carry the brand’s revamped menswear collection, along with their signature glamorous ready-to-wear, accessories, Blanche bridal collection and whimsical accoutrements (like music boxes, playing cards and stationery). All bets are off as Lanvin debuts in Sin City. Crystals at CityCenter, 3720 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Suite 106, L.V., 702-982-0245. S.T. Gianvito Rossi black organza ankle-strap sandal, $875.

The latest in Yves Saint Laurent’s repertoire of classic chic handbags, the New Rive Gauche embodies the je ne sais quoi spirit the brand is famous for. ysl.com.

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Leading Suit Who better than two L.a.-based swimsuit models to design the ultimate bikini? Shimmi’s alison Renner and Scarlett Chorvat know fit and fabric. shimmicollection.com. K.M.

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Aftelier trèvert, $150, aftelier.com. Yosh Ginger Ciao 2.27, $110, Apothia, l.A.

Top Notes

a growing set of Ca perfumers is bucking the trend of mass fragrance production with small-batch scents BY ELIZABEtH KHUrI CHANDLEr of numbers based on fragrance family, chakra and numerology. The sophisticated products contain 40-plus notes, including exotic elements such as Tunisian opium and Egyptian tuberose.

S.F.-based Rühland trained in Versailles in the classic way. Her education gives her the technical know-how to dream up synthetic molecules inspired by the scents surrounding her, such as the angel’s trumpet blooming over her stoop. “I try to create scents that are original, but clear and not too complicated,” she explains.

Naturalist perfumers Mandy Aftel, Jane Hendler, Roxana Villa and Alexandra Balahoutis also hand-blend their chemical formulas, but they shun synthetics, playing with whole ingredients and absolute oils. Aftel and Hendler say their approach is like cooking. Aftel, who has authored a book with Michelinstarred chef Daniel Patterson about pair-

Heaven Scent Spring brings an array of botanical perfumes from the world’s favorite names in fragrance. These three are reminiscent of an enchanted garden: Miss Dior Chérie has sweet orange, rose and patchouli; Chanel Chance is full of grapefruit, quince and jasmine; Voyage d’Hermès contains sandalwood, cedar and juniper berry. J.m.H. from top Dior miss Dior Chérie Eau de toilette, $82, Sephora. Chanel Chance Eau tendre, $90, chanel.com. Hermès Voyage d’Hermès, $90, hermes.com.

ing food with essential oils, says, “I feel very connected to the food world—the artisanal approach, the concern about the integrity and variety of the ingredients.”

In the heart of Carmel Valley, perfumer Hendler distills lavender from her farm for her line, Ajne. “I love terroir. I love that each natural fragrance is a tad different,” she says.

Other perfume sages in California, such as McNatton, Keiko Mecheri, Lisa Hoffman and Gaye Straza, work with established perfume houses to create their scent formulas.

McNatton develops fragrances for Gap, Gump’s and Restoration Hardware by working with perfume houses such as the Swiss company Givaudan. He explains that he seduces the chemists with “words that equate an olfactory note, an atmosphere, a place, light.”

Mecheri’s Loukhoum perfume is inspired by Turkish delight, and her Genie des Bois is a woodsy and violet scent influenced by an Akira Kurosawa film.

Hoffman’s pulse-point oils, crafted with Givaudan, can be layered throughout the day in melodies of bergamot, amber and ginger or orchid.

And Kai, one of the most popular niche scents of the past decade, is a heady gardenia, jasmine, tuberose and musk concoction that captivates both men and women.

“The scents are more personal here,” Eastwood says. “With these niche perfumers, it’s an art form.” •

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ar from the storied French perfume houses and New York’s corporate forces, a crafty perfume industry has sprung up, filled with ambitious and entrepreneurial scent-makers. Its fragrances, inspired by the environment, are instinctive and fresh. “We come at perfume from a natural identity, examining how things smell in real life versus fantasy. It’s pure; it’s not overly complex. It’s never focus-grouped.

California fragrances never smell like last year’s success,” says Gary McNatton, president of Through Smoke Creative.

Respected niche perfumers Sarah Horowitz, Yosh Han and Ineke Rühland formulate perfumes from the ground up, a process Horowitz likens to painting with scent. Horowitz’s best-seller, Perfect Veil, is a mixture of lemon, bergamot, musk, vanilla and sandalwood.

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etting to know someone’s skin is like reading a book,” says Beverly Hills aesthetician Francesca Paige. “Our bodies can relay fantastic stories.” As she tells it, our whole body ages at the same time, so it’s important to include all body parts when discussing skincare. Here, Paige’s 10 catch-all tips: 1. Wash your face twice before bed. If there’s makeup on your towel, there’s makeup on your face. 2. Sleep. 3. See your dermatologist for a full body check once a year.

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“I like a mix of tailored, clean lines with hints of French, asian and modern, so the space doesn’t feel too stuffy.”

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an Francisco-based interior designer Grant K. Gibson loves a good story.

This explains why the L.A. native, known for his glamorous, black-andwhite ateliers and his classic-meets-modern approach to traditional Pacific Heights homes (think a rustic farm table paired with Knoll chairs and a hot pink rug), is constantly on the lookout for pieces with a past. “I like a mix of tailored, clean lines with hints of French, Asian and modern, so the space doesn’t feel too stuffy,” says Gibson, who frequents the Alameda Flea Market and jets off on buying trips to Paris and Hong Kong. “When I go shopping, I keep an open mind and try not to look for anything specific.”

At newly opened design boutique Homme (2354 Polk St., 415-400-4299; homme.1stdibs.com), owner Michelle Homme offers a well-edited mix of turn-of-the-century and 1970s wares such as sunburst wall sculptures by C. Jere and brass candlesticks by Jens Quistgaard. “She handpicks everything, so there’s a real history behind each item,” says Gibson, who launched his eponymous design firm in New York in 2002 before At Homme, a brass moving to San Francisco. “It’s my antler head from the go-to spot for accessories.” ’70s and Ben Seibel Tail Light bookends.

“It’s sort of this secret, hippie source with fabulous affordable tableware that’s perfect for an impromptu dinner party,” says Gibson, who recently took home a set of classic white square plates from Kamei Restaurant Supply (547 Clement St., 415-666-3699).

For pendant lamps, Danish modern tables and Murano decanters, Monument (573 Valencia St., 415861-9802; monument.1stdibs.com) is Gibson’s top pick. “It’s the place for mid-century chandeliers and pieces that make a statement,” he says.

“Accent pillows are a simple way to update a neutral sofa or add a pop of color to a beige bedroom,” says Gibson of his frequent visits to Krimsa (2190 Union St., 415-441-4321; krimsa.com) for Thomas Paul pillows, ikat-inspired cushions and a selection of area rugs from Egypt and Nepal.

“I’ve traveled to Paris, England and Italy with Kathleen, owner of Kathleen Taylor: The Lotus Collection,” (445 Jackson St., 415-398-8115, ktaylor-lotus.com) >

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Necklaces by London-based designer Tatty Devine hang above a vintage credenza at Eden and Eden.

Gibson sets the tone for a day of shopping at Homme.

At Krimsa, accent pillows by Trina Turk, Thomas Paul and Michele Varian.

Olive tree branches, air plants and letterpress cards at Birch.

“accent pillows are a simple way to update a neutral sofa or add a pop of color to a beige bedroom.”

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Floral designer and Birch owner Torryne Choate, who just opened a chic all-black storefront in Hayes Valley (564 Hayes St., 415-626-6860; birchsf.com), helps Gibson add finishing touches. His favorites? White tulips and peonies. “Her seasonal arrangements are like works of art,” says the designer.

For inspiration, Gibson takes the short walk from his office to March Gallery (3075 Sacramento St., 415931-7433; marchsf.com). “I love how they juxtapose industrial pieces with a soothing, natural palette,” he says of the showroom stocked with wooden stump sculptures and crème tufted daybeds.

“Art is so personal, so I like to direct my clients to SFMOMA Artists Gallery,” says Gibson of the rotating gallery with pieces by up-and-coming Bay Area artists (Fort Mason Center, Building A, 415-441-4777; sfmoma.org).

“They rent artwork so you can take it home and live with it before committing to buy.”

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• Donate excess to Fallen Fruit (fallenfruit.org). The Woven Garden, thewovengarden.com. MARTA TEEGEN • For raised planting, lay your bed on a half-inch layer of newspaper. • Soil mix is key. Fill with steaming-hot stable bedding from Tim Dundon in Altadena, bonemeal and greensand. Homegrown, homegrownlosangeles.com.

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Italian-made Felco hand-pruners are virtually indestructible; vintners swear by the original (F2, $59.20, felcostore.com). Paxton Gate carries the Japanese minimalist razor-sharp Nagano steel shears (pictured right; paxtongate.com). The U.K.’s oldest garden toolmaker, Burgon & Ball’s Sheffield metals endure through the seasons (from $21, artedona.com). Restoration Hardware’s new garden collection (pictured above; from $49, restorationhardware.com) features eight hand-forged garden essentials from Sneeboer, the famous heritage-quality Dutch toolmaker.

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ealthy Food For Ecstatic Body & Soul” asserts the white-on-white sign inside Kyochon restaurant. The slogan—which reads more like a mnemonic device—is a far cry from the likes of Hooters’ “Objects Are as Large as They Appear” or even Hot Wings Cafe’s “Best In Los Angeles.” And, yet, the name of the game is still chicken wings.

Diners are hard-pressed to find scantily clad waitresses, football or even blue-cheese dressing at this latest fried-wing institution, where the waiters sport green polo shirts and TVs play kids’ cartoons. This eatery, after all, is located right smack in the center of Koreatown, where the rules—and ingredients—are a bit different.

Chicken wings are just the latest Korean culinary trend to hit this densely populated Los Angeles neighborhood. Here, res-

taurants are said to number more than 800, and the cuisine— especially in the realm of hangover cures—is remarkably varied.

As Koreatown has boomed over the last 20 years, so have its dining options. And, while Eighth Street’s smoky Soot Bull Jeep restaurant might once have been L.A.’s iconic representation of Korean food, now options range dramatically: barbecued meats, tofu stew, juke rice porridge, baked goods and, yes, chicken wings.

When embarking on a ride through this varied culinary landscape, a first bite through crusty, tangy, fried goodness into the juicy white meat of a Kyochon Garlic Soy Sauce wing is not a bad place to start. Most L.A. residents know not to judge restaurants based on mini-mall locales, so Kyochon’s spot off Sixth Street (with no-frills decor) is not off-putting. Inside the small stark space, bright oranges sit cheerfully behind a couple of white banquettes, and tables are set with paper place mats and disposable chopsticks. Kyochon— with more than 1,000 locations in Korea and a few in California and New York—looks a lot like a tiny fast-food joint, although diners receive table service unless ordering counter takeout.

Some options—like Crispy Rice Chicken Strips—are just okay.

But the Garlic Soy Sauce wings—double-fried without transfats, which is why they’re billed as “healthy”—are unforgettable. The Hot Sweet Sauce drumsticks are equally flavorful, but truly hot.

So, milder foodies may just snag an order of two hot “sticks” as a small sample. Sides of pickled white radish, swimming in clear

brine in a neat plastic package, are perfect crisp, cool complements to the chicken in place of the standard celery and carrots. And the check arrives along with a small surprise: a dollop of chocolate frozen yogurt to punctuate the meal.

Tasty food aside, sometimes one craves a little ambience. Enter upscale Korean BBQ spot ChoSun Galbee. Some argue they offer a softball version of Korean cuisine (à la Woo Lae Oak) but, in reality, good “ethnic” food is not relegated to dives (as evidenced by ChoSun Galbee’s sometimes painfully long waits for weekend tables). The outdoor patio’s industrial steel overhang is juxtaposed with dangling greenery, while private indoor rooms with polished wood appointments attract large parties.

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From Top Fiery offerings at BCD Tofu in L.A.’s Koreatown neighborhood.

The full accoutrement of condiments at BBQ house Dong Il Jang. Traditionally attired servers at Dong Il Jang stand prepared to tend their tables’ grills.

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ometimes, when I’m sitting in some edgy new eatery in New York or L.A., sampling creative cuisine that belongs to no identifiable tradition, served by some gorgeous young thing whose head is in Hollywood or hip-hop or high-tech, I start daydreaming about Scandia, the stylish but old-style Scandinavian restaurant on the Sunset Strip that closed 20 years ago last August.

Scandia was born and flourished in an age when restaurants were built to last, not to flash across the The scene at L.A.’s Scandia firmament for a year or two before morphing into anin 1954. other eatery altogether. It was never a trendy place— I’m not sure there really were trendy places, in the modern, intentionally ephemeral sense, back in Scandia’s golden kind of thing we’d had around the house when I was growing era—but it was a fashionable one. It was a place where the up. At Scandia, it was served as an assortment of preparawell-to-do and the accomplished went to dine, where people tions, five or six in all—a multi-part exultation of an otherof celebrity and of import gathered, no matter what their age wise plebeian fish—along with constantly replenished basor field of endeavor—the kind of place where you might catch a kets of dark and medium-dark breads, some salty and some glimpse of anyone from Diane Keaton to Tom Bradley to sweet, and chilled shot glasses of Aalborg Akvavit from DenGeorgia Frontiere to auto paint-shop mogul Earl Scheib. mark, a strong, crystal-clear alcohol flavored with an earthy To the left as you walked into the restaurant was a big, note of caraway and so cold it flowed like syrup from its naplight dining room, inspired by the pavilions in Copenhagen’s kin-wrapped bottle. As much for the herring and the akvavit Tivoli Gardens—a room where it always seemed like a springas for anything else, I consider Scandia to have been the first time afternoon, no matter the season or time of day. This room restaurant of my grown-up life. was a favorite with the society dames of the era, the ones who Scandia was born in 1946, a year after I was, on the north side would later be dubbed “ladies who lunch,” and there was of Sunset Boulevard, opened by a taciturn, mustachioed Dane usually a fashion show going on at noontime, featuring sensibly named Ken Hansen, who’d been the chef at the Bit of Sweden cut, if not sensibly priced, suits and dresses from—where? restaurant down the street. If my parents went there in its early Don Loper? I. Magnin? Something of the sort. days, they never asked me along. In 1957, though, Scandia But it was also an eating place that upheld the highest moved across Sunset to a commodious new Scandinavianstandards of gastronomy. I used to make the case that Scandia modern building, and I was taken there for the first time soon was the best French restaurant in town, even though it wasn’t afterward. That Scandia had become, by that time, an important French at all—the point being it offered a level of cuisine and L.A. establishment, may be seen from the fact that on moving service that would have done any classic French place proud. day, one of its steady customers, L.A. County Sheriff Peter When I remember what I ate and drank at Scandia, all Pitchess, had a few blocks of Sunset closed long enough for a kinds of delights come to mind. It was there, for instance, I horse-drawn Carlsberg beer wagon, bearing a pianist, an first tried Campari (I didn’t like it, but had ordered it to show accordion player and the Danish operatic tenor Lauritz Melmy parents how, well, cosmopolitan I had become and I was chior, leading a troop of regulars—reportedly among them darned if I was going to show anything but enthusiasm for it), entertainers Victor Borge and Nipsey Russell, General Jimmy encountered turbot and sampled venison. And it was there I Doolittle, and future presidential candidate Barry Goldwater— developed an affection for herring, which was not at all the from the old restaurant to the new one, continued on PAGe 125

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hen the curtain at the Music Center rises on the Los Angeles Opera’s Der Ring des Nibelungen this month, it will be the result of 10 years of toil.

The 25-year-old company has long been the ugly stepsister to San Francisco’s 87-year-old counterpart. But three runs of the four-opera Ring Cycle in succession, including 60plus hours of music, at a cost of 32 million dollars marks a seismic shift in the landscape of California culture.

In the opera world, once you’ve developed a top-drawer, original Ring production, you’ve finally arrived.

And with their choice of German theater artist and painter Achim Freyer to design and direct, the L.A. Opera is presenting their Ring with panache—and a dollop of controversy. As the four original operas in the cycle, Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung, debuted separately over >

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culture the last two years, they garnered mostly positive reviews— and a few boos. icture a Wagnerian opera without breastplates, spears or braids. Instead, envision a fantastical, postmodern tableau filled with Freyer’s hand-painted costumes and sets with Surrealist and Dadaist references. Siegfried, the hero figure, wears a suit of comic-book blue with pronounced abs. “Freyer presents him as Superman and at the same time makes fun of the whole archetype,” John Steinmetz, the principal bassoonist for the opera orchestra, says.

The mechanics of stagecraft are left out in the open: The singers stand on a raked circular disc that rotates to symbolize the passage of time; characters step in and out of costumes; and an ensemble of actors shake fabric to suggest the Rhine river. And then there are the light sabers, lasers, bicycles and giant reticulated-foam wigs.

San Francisco-based soprano Linda Watson plays Brünnhilde in the upcoming cycle. She has performed in 10 Rings all over the world, including with New York’s Metropolitan Opera. “Achim Freyer’s Ring is quite different from all of the others. I am used to being the center of attention as Brünnhilde and—I smile as I say this—my ego took quite a hit in the beginning. In Freyer’s Ring, the story takes on a larger structure. It offers a more visual panoply of choice for the audience on which to focus.”

The futuristic production is nothing if not divisive. Shigemi Matsumoto, a soprano and vocal teacher who debuted with the San Francisco opera in Die Walküre, found Siegfried deeply intellectual, illuminating the music with methodical solemnity, while one naysayer wrote on his blog the costumes appeared “scavenged from a Cirque du Soleil plane crash.”

In a way, Freyer’s ideas match the ambition of the romantic composer. “I liken it to Avatar,” Steinmetz says, “At the time he wrote it, Wagner was pushing the technology.” Wagner had a larger stage built, grew the orchestra to 90 players, asked for unusual instruments (including what would come to be

known as the “Wagner tuba”) and wrote music rewired for vocal gymnastics and superhuman stamina.

All those “special effects” require an infusion of money behind the production, and the road to L.A. Opera’s Ring has been particularly bumpy. Over the past 10 years, various production ideas were tossed aside—a 60-million-dollar Star Wars-themed Ring Cycle with George Lucas, talks with director Baz Luhrmann— and fiscal challenges—resulting from 9-11 and the Great Recession—intervened. But the company has prevailed. They even took out an emergency 14-million-dollar loan, guaranteed by the county, to make sure the project would be completed.

The endeavor has evolved into “a movement unto itself,” Jill Baldauf, a member of L.A. Opera’s board of directors, says. More than 100 cultural institutions have come together to create a citywide Ring Festival, with exhibitions and performances, including panels at UCLA’s Hammer Museum and the Museum of Tolerance to address Wagner’s infamous anti-Semitism and the possibility of separating his philosophy from his music.

Steinmetz suggests reading the story before experiencing the Ring because it takes a number of twists. Yet even without familiarity with the plot, audiences will find the music pleasingly familiar. “When John Williams was hired to do Star Wars, he said, ‘Let’s do something Wagnerian.’ To me, it sounds familiar in the way his music is so supple. I think there is always controversy [about anti-Semitism] with Wagner. The best thing you can say is this guy was a real creep and he wrote great music.

He’s one of those genius musicians. And his music is famous for being able to turn on a dime emotionally.” He pauses. “I call it God’s cartoon music.” Couple that with Freyer’s visuals, and there’s sure to be plenty of operatic conversation around Southern California this summer. •

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“achim Freyer’s Ring is quite different from all the others.

It offers a more visual panoply of choice for the audience on which to focus.” —Linda Watson

Outsized costumes and minimalist sets in Das Rheingold blur the line between opera and performance art in L.A. Opera’s new Ring Cycle.

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This major survey traces the various styles and influences throughout the career of Armenian-American artist Arshile Gorky. A seminal figure in the movement toward abstraction that transformed American art, Gorky’s tragic life informed some of the most gripping, deeply personal paintings of the 20th century.

Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective is organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art in association with Tate Modern, London, and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

The international tour is made possible by the Terra Foundation for American Art. The U.S. tour is supported by The Lincy Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

The exhibition at MOCA is presented by The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation. Generous support is provided by Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg, Steve Martin, The MOCA Contemporaries, and the Pasadena Art Alliance. Additional support is provided by the MOCA Friends of Arshile Gorky: Mrs. Joseph H. Stein, Jr. and Mrs. Louise Danelian. In-kind media support is provided by Ovation TV, Asbarez Daily Newspaper/Horizon Armenian TV, YEREVAN Magazine, and Los Angeles magazine.

ABOVE: Betrothal I, 1947, oil on paper, 51 x 40 in., collection of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The Rita and Taft Schreiber Collection, given in loving memory of her husband, Taft Schreiber, by Rita Schreiber, Š 2010 Estate of Arshile Gorky/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Golden State Gleam

Viewed from afar, the recipe for California’s freewheeling style—all jeans, flip-flops and oversized shades—might not call for the ingredient of so-called important jewelry. The answer, though, known to fashionable insiders from Napa to La Jolla, is that the Golden State’s flexible and uniquely stylish dress code offers an array of ways for chic women to brandish their baubles.

Whether slipping on a cocktail ring for a walk on the beach or pulling out a treasured necklace for dinner at Bouchon, it’s all about the mix.

Venice-based costume jeweler Tom Binns and L.A. fashion star John Eshaya debut their Get Real collection of bejeweled silk-screened T-shirts. John Eshaya for Tom Binns T-shirt, $144, Jet at Fred Segal Santa Monica; tombinnsdesign.com.

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bookmark bling Chanel sunglasses, $340. Van Cleef & Arpels turquoise and diamond bracelet.

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Christian Louboutin high heel, $925, and bag, $995. Chanel Fine Jewelry brooch with South Sea pearl.

OPPOSITE Hermès deck chair, $3,150. Chanel handbag, $2,325.

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llen Pompeo is not Meredith Grey.

Ellen Pompeo is not Meredith Grey.

Ellen…Pompeo. Is. Not. Meredith Grey. The surest indication that the actor (who, just five months after the birth of her daughter, Stella Luna, is as blade-slim as ever) is not the living, breathing embodiment of the surgical resident she plays on “Grey’s Anatomy” is that she doesn’t repeat all of her sentences three times, stressing a different syllable with each delivery, as her character tends to do around Seattle Grace Hospital. She doesn’t. Re-peat. Her sentences.

Out of her scrubs, in charcoal-gray jeans, quilted Chanel boots and an angular little black leather jacket for a rainy Saturday afternoon at the Chateau Marmont, she blends alarmingly well with the rest of the fashiony types lingering in the lobby. During a relaxed chat over a pot of tea, and away from the dizzying, labyrinthine relationships on the show, the actor and new mom, 40, appears to be as sane as they come. And she’s also capable of making very astute choices—like disappearing to Europe to recharge during the show’s hiatus instead of making awful romantic comedies, and keeping her infant daughter at home, away from the paparazzi and out of the tabloids. In other words, she’s entirely unlike Meredith Grey. But she keeps such a low profile around town that it’s easy to understand why people project her famous character’s idiosyncrasies upon her. If she’s not Meredith Grey, then who is Ellen Pompeo?

“People may hate the character or find it all annoying but I try really hard and give it as much as I can,” she says with the slightest of shrugs. “Have you ever seen ‘Childrens’ Hospital’ on YouTube? It’s a total send-up of our show. Lake Bell plays me and it’s hilarious.”

For six years now, Pompeo has played the title character of the popular ABC show, devoting “two-hundred percent” of her energy to the job. Stories of conflict on the set have swirled around the media since the beginning, and Pompeo doesn’t try to convince anyone the drama on-set has been exclusively on-camera.

“I know the storylines can be just ridiculous. It doesn’t go unnoticed, by me or the other actors. Let’s just say that. Actors want to play a character in a way that feels real and honest. I don’t have any battles left to fight about this. But I also know the show really touches a lot of people,” she continues. In 2008, when Pompeo traveled the country campaigning for President Obama, she had a chance to meet many of those fans firsthand. “Whether they had a parent with Alzheimer’s, or they just relate to Meredith in some way, they connected with it. So I must be doing something right for people to feel passionately about it either way.”

It’s shocking, really, how polarizing a character Pompeo can be.

What’s all the fuss about? She has a quick smile and the kind of beauty that can seem only a smidge above average one minute and then quite remarkable the next. The native of Everett, Massachusetts, hasn’t had the kind of fame-kissed childhood and instant success that can often spark the rumblings of jealousy.

“I didn’t have my mother when I was growing up. She died when I was really young, so my family, my older sister Maureen and

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my aunt and uncle, really tried hard to make memories for me. We lived in a really working-class Boston town, but we’d go to Walden Pond on the weekends to look for turtles and little frogs,” she said.

“My Aunt Ellen, who married my mom’s brother, introduced me to the movies. I think I knew from way back when that I wanted to perform, but I had absolutely no idea how to go about it.”

After a stint as a waitress and bartender in Miami after high school, she moved to New York to try her hand at acting at 26.

“I did commercial work,” she says. “I needed to make some money. Where I come from, you graduate from high school and you get a job at the post office, if you’re lucky. I wasn’t a starving artist. I was happy to be working.” er first big break came in 2002, after she moved to Los Angeles, when she was cast as Jake Gyllenhaal’s love interest in Moonlight Mile. But after playing small roles in a half-dozen movies after that (including Daredevil with Ben Affleck and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), only to have her entire performance spliced out of nearly all of them, she found her way to a smallish part in a giant movie, Old School, and eventually to a screen test for a drama called “Secret Service.”

“Apparently, ABC wasn’t buying me as the head of the Secret Service,” she says, with what appears to be a typical deadpan.

“But I guess they must have liked me in the test, because that’s how I got ‘Grey’s.’”

The show premiered in 2005, and the rest is pretty much McHistory. Pompeo married Chris Ivery, a music producer who grew up just a handful of miles away from her, two years later. The couple was introduced by mutual friends after bumping into each other in the grocery store.

“I didn’t marry someone super-famous to catapult my career,” she says. “And yes, I really believe that people do that, to be photographed together when they’re out. I just married a great guy. And he’s a really good father.”

Stella Luna spends her days at home with her daddy and their live-in baby nurse, which explains why her mom looks so fantastic.

Instead of lugging her daughter to the set to roll around the floor of her dressing room, Pompeo scoots home at lunchtime to see her.

“Stella Luna’s schedule is what’s important right now,” Pompeo says. “Her life doesn’t need to be as chaotic as mine. In the afternoon, she goes out into the yard under the olive trees to watch the birds and my dogs. She knows exactly when her bottle is coming.

She doesn’t need much more than that. And I’m at work saying, ‘Let’s hurry it up so I can get out of here at 4:30.’”

While Pompeo’s life isn’t exactly the stuff of scandal, that doesn’t mean the paparazzi haven’t been parked outside her home in Hollywood’s Whitley Heights neighborhood, carefully observing the progress of her McBabyBump, and then waiting to glimpse her little McCutie, who has her dad’s caramel skin and her mom’s almond eyes.

“I’m a big girl so I can handle the scrutiny. I signed up for this life, and it’s a luxury problem to have. But I want to keep my daughter out of it,” she says. conTinued on page 125

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Turkish Suzani and Southeast Asian ikat fabric pillows on the sofa echo the Oriental mood.

OPPOSITE A portrait of Tiegs by Andy Warhol hangs in the master bedroom.

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heryl Tiegs greets me wearing sweatpants and a soft knit zipup sweater, her blonde hair haloed around her face in oversized pink plastic rollers.

At 62, she’s girlish and immediately recognizable, her eyes an icy, mesmerizing blue.

Squint a bit and she could still be the quintessential California blonde with a diffident smile that launched a legendary modeling career in the ’70s. That career propelled her from modest roots in the Midwest and L.A.’s San Gabriel Valley—she grew up in Alhambra—around the whole world, and finally back to Southern California.

Perched on the end of a winding cul-de-sac above Sunset Boulevard, at first Tiegs’ house appears to be an almost-modest bungalow. (Modest by Bel Air standards—her neighbors are Elizabeth Taylor and Nancy Reagan.) The housekeeper has buzzed open the iron gate from the street, and the double front door is ajar, leading to a low-lit, snug foyer, then on to a spacious, breezy area anchored by four 28-foot-high pillars and wallpapered in woven grass cloth. Here in this lofty expanse, under a soaring ceiling, four distinct but integrated tableaux converge. To the right, a space with a cozy sofa, low, spacious table, and a television (the reassuring, now-old-fashioned cathode-ray variety) functions as a family room where Tiegs likes to eat dinner and watch the tube with her teenage son, Zachary. To the left of the entrance, a Ziegler Mahal Persian rug anchors a sitting area rounded out by a cobalt-blue mohair couch and cheerful cerulean ikat-covered chairs. Straight ahead, tall, carved Indonesian wood screens divide the room, behind which stand a navy blue-felted pool table and a mantle topped with family snapshots. Beyond lies the dining area, punctuated by antique Hundi lights, which at night offers a lovely view of the twinkling Los Angeles skyline.

The home exudes a layered, colonial aura, amplified by the exotic collection of keepsakes from Tiegs’ peripatetic life.

Tiegs is shy about personal matters, but her history and family life are apparent everywhere. A painted canvas of Peter Beard, an ex-husband, presides over the sitting-area fireplace, and his iconic collages are sprinkled throughout the home. Beard and Tiegs spent much of their married life at Hog Ranch, Karen Blixen’s former estate in Kenya, and Beard’s stark photographs of that locale are displayed on the walls. “I love things that have history,” says Tiegs. “Everything I keep means something to me.”

The bedroom of Zachary, Tiegs’ son with Tony Peck, her third husband, is in meticulous order, possibly explained by the 18-year-old being away at boarding school. In the master bedroom, a portrait of Tiegs by Andy Warhol hangs opposite the bed, a memento from the days when she was a regular at The Factory. “Oh, I don’t have a boyfriend right now; otherwise I wouldn’t put that up here. It was hidden away in the gym— Martyn made me do it. I’m trying to find the right balance of

masculine and feminine in this room. I’d like to make it more inviting for male company,” she says with a laugh.

“Martyn” is Martyn Lawrence-Bullard, her longtime confidante, designer and collaborator, whose client list includes Eva Mendes, Elton John and Cher. He possesses an essential quality in a tastemaker: a self-assurance and conviction in his design that inspires confidence. The inveterate touch-up artist is a regular presence at Tiegs’ home, eternally rearranging wooden panels, African artifacts, flowers, vintage books, pillows, settees and objets d’art—leaving everything just a little more deftly situated and visually pleasing in his wake. When Tiegs tries on a leopard-print blouse and asks: “Is it too Jackie Collins?” Martyn is the one to laugh and emphatically answer: “Yes.” The two met at a dinner party 12 years ago and clicked instantly. Tiegs had just purchased the ’50s-era tear-down abode, its most notable features being the louvered windows and aluminum sliding doors. She sought to transform it into a Zen, Bali-inspired sanctuary, and invited Martyn over for an interview, then hired him on the spot. “I didn’t really know what I was doing yet,” he says. “It wasn’t until later that I found out she had already considered almost every other decorator in town.” They set to work, breaking down the low ceiling to reveal the high rafters and the house’s airy potential.

Since then, they’ve continued to collaborate over the years.

“He’s honest,” says Tiegs. “And we’ve managed to become such great friends.” Though Tiegs is often traveling for work— she’s a spokesperson for Cambria, a luxury quartz-countertop line—they see each other often, including at Tiegs’ convivial Sunday gatherings. Her long dining table can accommodate 24 guests, and her specialty is roast chicken. “I love the house most when it’s filled with people,” says Tiegs. •

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Raffia cloth softens the kitchen island, which is topped by an oversized butcher block. The counters are covered with Cambria stone, for which Tiegs is a spokesperson. ABOVE A 19th-century copper vat, now a planter, was originally used to dye traditional fabrics. LEFT The tile on this Regency table comes from the floor of an ancient villa uncovered in the ruins of Pompeii. OPPOSITE Tiegs sleeps in a custom-made replica of a half-tester bed, common in 19th-century Indonesian colonial homes. The trunk is Bavarian.

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Crown Jewels

An astute and intrepid Bay Area estate jeweler uncovers a necklace of extraordinary historical dimension and captivating beauty

he smooth-faced glass office buildings dotted along El Camino Real in Menlo Park, about an hour south of San Francisco, exude the kind of low-profile industriousness that brings to mind Silicon Valley law firms or just-sprouted social media outfits.

Nestled on the second floor of one of these defiantly bland building blocks of NorCal’s high-tech economy resides an entirely unlikely entity: a literal treasure trove of covetable gems and baubles.

This suite of tucked-away offices is the domain of estate jeweler Stephen Silver, whose firm, S.H. Silver Company, practices the rarefied business of connecting the dots between those who may, for one reason or another, be interested in letting go of a few precious stones and collectors on the hunt for specimens brimming with historical interest and exquisite luster.

The exchange of beautiful pieces of jewelry hums along through booms and busts, and since setting up shop in 1980, Silver has steadily widened his reach and burnished his reputation among the gemelogically inclined with cunning appraisals, measured sales and acquisitions wrapped in an impeccable aura of discretion. But on one afternoon in his career of peering into all the right jewelry boxes, he caught sight of a piece of transcendent beauty and historical significance. This once-in-a-career find, which a lifetime of study and experience prepared him to recognize and act upon, now rests in the vaults of The Smithsonian Institute’s National Gem Collection in Washington, D.C., for all the world to see after lurking in obscurity for more than a hundred years.

Having grown up surrounded by the refined wares of his artcollecting family, Silver, who moved to the Bay Area as a teenager and studied geology in college, embarked on a career in the jewelry industry after earning a graduate degree from the Gemelogical Institute of America—the Harvard of bling—in Los Angeles. He first worked as a mélange sorter for a large-scale commercial jewelry manufacturer in downtown L.A., sifting and grading thousands of tiny diamonds a day, honing his technical mastery of gems with each flick of his wrist.

It wasn’t until he joined an estate jewelry firm in San Francisco in his early 20s that Silver, who was flirting with applying to medical school, discovered the real source of his passion for the business of gems. Curious about the finer items in his new boss’ collection, Silver inquired about their origins. With a bit of background information in hand, he plunged into the library for more specifics, discovering not only that his employer had inaccurate information

about some of his most valuable pieces, but that the misconstrued facts were undercutting their worth. “I fell in love with this industry on that basis,” says Silver. “All of the sudden this light turned on and I realized that a knowledge and appreciation of history created a great opportunity.”

And so in 1980, with an initial investment of $3,000, Silver struck out on his own, tapping into his network of friends and family in search of jeweled creations with enough history to transcend mere prettiness. Twelve years later, with his appraisal-driven business humming along, he received a call from a Portland-based retailer he had worked with in the past asking if he’d come up to have a look at the jewels of a woman who had recently moved to the Northwest from South Africa. Her assets were tied up in the murky process of immigration and she had a few things she was considering selling.

Owing a visit to the dealer anyway, Silver hopped on a flight to meet the prospective client. Anne Robinson and her husband picked Silver up from the airport and took him to their bank in Portland. A middle-aged woman of more sensible than fashionable appearance, Robinson presented him with a box of various diamond clips and baubles he estimated at a glance to be worth roughly $25,000. They were all handsome pieces to be sure, but none of any immediately apparent special interest. “I do have one other thing I wanted to show you,” Silver recalls her saying, after which she pulled out a second box.

He discovered inside what he recalls as one of the most beautiful works of art he had ever seen: a diamond necklace with a large bow motif dotted with nine sparkling—and exquisitely rare—blue diamonds. Awestruck, he asked Robinson to tell him about the piece. “Well,” she recalled, “my great-grandfather gave it to my great-grandmother.” Upon being told her great-grandfather was Thomas Cullinan, the famed South African discoverer of the largest known diamond in history, Silver knew he was facing a precious specimen of epic historical significance.

Thomas Cullinan was a well-to-do South African builder with an interest in geology. Convinced that a tract of land near Pretoria had great mineral riches, he pursued the purchase of a farm on that land for several years, until the end of the Boer War in 1902, when the owners found themselves strapped for cash and agreed to sell. There he established the Premier Diamond Mining Company and began to dig. While the land proved rich in precious minerals, it wasn’t until 1905 that its ultimate potential would be revealed. As legend has it, after blasting a section of earth to expand the mine, Cullinan and his foreman walked past a giant crystal hanging continuEd on PagE 126

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Home to a colorful spectrum of Tinseltown personalities, the El Royale in Los Angeles has seen its share of drama. Now the famously quirky building may be losing its indie appeal

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bout a decade ago, Oscarwinning actor Nicolas Cage and his then-girlfriend, actress Christina Fulton, had a fight in their 10th-floor apartment at the El Royale, an imposing building on Los Angeles’ Rossmore Avenue with a neon-green sign on the roof that radiates throughout Hancock Park at night. As building lore has it, he locked her out on the terrace. She had to smash her hand through the glass door to get back inside, cutting her wrist badly. The cops took him to the station and the paramedics took her to the hospital—but not before she shoved a towel in the kitchen-sink drain and turned on the water.

“When I came in at 6 a.m., the ninth floor had called down to say there was water running out of the ceilings,” says Sandy Griffin, the manager of the building for 37 years, who recently retired. She rushed upstairs, encountering a truly wacky, wet sight.

“Over here was a huge aquarium with a huge shark, and it had flipped it over with its tail,” Griffin says, miming the action. “There were two hairless cats; they had eaten the pet parakeets and there were feathers everywhere. There was a big prop beetle and heavy red drapes.” She takes a deep breath.

“Nic Cage was the most challenging to have in the building.”

When Griffin, now 71, started working at the El Royale, it was almost like a senior citizens’ home, packed with residents who had been there since it was built in the late ’20s, primarily to accommodate employees of the nearby Paramount lot. Designed by architect Douglas Lee, the apartments featured ornate moldings and fortress-like walls, making it feel like L.A.’s answer to New York’s storied Dakota. During

Griffin’s early days, she had the unfortunate experience of finding four longtime residents dead in their apartments.

“I became very close to some of these people and when one would pass away, it was like losing a parent,” says Griffin, who also knitted 14 baby blankets for the newest of residents.

About 20 years ago, CAA power agent Kevin Huvane moved into a seventh-floor apartment with a view of the Hollywood sign.

A new shiny regime followed, created largely by Huvane placing his inner circle, including his brothers, Stephen, a prominent celebrity publicist, and Chris, a manager and co-owner of Crown Bar, within his midst. (Other CAA power agents in residence have included Bryan Lourd, Jim Toth and Brian Siberell.) Throughout the years, the resident roster has read like the guest list to the Vanity Fair Oscar party: Uma Thurman, Cameron Diaz, Ben Stiller, Katie Holmes, Jack Black, Judd Apatow, Ellen Page.

Under the reign of Huvane, the El Royale became a quirky home for industry achievers and strivers, recent divorcées, kids—who often ran free through the halls—and displaced New Yorkers who preferred valet service and 24-hour doormen to a garden and a pool. Akin to a grown-up dorm, it’s the kind of place where neighbors lend each other chairs for dinner parties, drain bottles of wine over late-night gossip sessions, give notes on scripts and fling open their doors for building-wide holiday fetes—particularly after the Christmas party in the lobby and the July 4th party on the roof. Both holiday parties were funded by the late Martha Scott, the building’s longtime owner, who died at age 98 last summer, leaving residents abuzz about the building’s future and prompting Griffin to retire.

“I promised my family that when Martha didn’t need me anymore, I would pursue other interests,” says Griffin. She’s wearing a blue-and-white-striped shirt with embroidered butterflies, and blue pants and blue sneakers, and sitting in the living room of an apartment just off the ornate lobby where she and her husband have lived part-time for the past three years. Before that, she would

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commute from her home in the San Gabriel Valley, gether because they’re thrown together—and where she once ensconced four elderly ladies who that was my experience in L.A., a town so couldn’t take the stairs when the elevator was grounspread out, with everyone in their own pods. ded in the El Royale after a power outage due to the You have this oasis in the middle where everyNorthridge earthquake of ’94. (“Desperate Houseone chooses to live right on top of each other, wife” Nicollette Sheridan and her mother flew and somehow it just works. A couple years down the stairs wearing negligees, a sight that Griffin into living there, I was thinking, ‘This could be says kept the “fellows” happily hanging in the lobby.) a TV show,’ and I just wrote it.”

When Scott died, the building’s ownership He didn’t have to work too hard for story ideas was transferred to a trust owned in a building where it’s hardly uncommon to hear by her four children, and manprofessional-level piano playing in the lobby agement was taken over by or witness a TV heartthrob local company Dolan & Knight, sweating it out in the bareprompting questions about the bones basement gym. There’s building’s fate. even a cheese impresario “Many of the residents who’s generous with unpaswould like to have it turned teurized slices during iminto a condo or co-op, but promptu picnics on the roof whether that’s feasible would and building-wide sing-alongs Past residents of the El Royale, have to be studied with the led by a musical theater star from left: CAA city,” says Griffin, adding that who, at Christmas, gave everyagent Bryan Scott never explored those opportunities during her Lourd; Uma one jars of wild honey she had harvested herself in Ojai.

Thurman; Katie life. “I could have postponed retiring forever,” says Holmes (with The show, starring Raquel Welch, Chris Klein and then-boyfriend Griffin. “I so enjoy the people and the staff.”

Jeffrey Tambor, got tangled up in the writers strike Tom Cruise), The feeling is mutual among the building’s past and Ben Stiller. and only aired five episodes (it’s now available on present inhabitants. “El Royale is my favorite place I’ve iTunes)—but the building has a new carpet in the lived to date,” says Paranormal Activity producer Jason Blum, who lobby to show for it, paid for by the location shooting fee. now lives in a stunning modern home in the Hollywood Hills. He If the show had gone on, Griffin would have had plenty of mateused to buy Griffin a piece of jewelry for Christrial to share. Among her favorite stories are the one about when the mas every year. “It was one big happy family, night doorman had to go outside at around 2 a.m. and yell at a limo and Sandy made it that way,” adds Blum. driver for parking in the building’s driveway, which leads into the valet parking garage. The driver begged the doorman to leave them he cast of characters in that family was colorbe, pleading, “I can’t disrupt the people in the back!” After about an ful enough for John Hamburg, the writer/dihour or two, the doorman went back and insisted the limo be rector of hit movies like I Love You, Man and moved. The driver pulled up to a loading zone and out stepped Along Came Polly to create a CBS TV show, Tom Cruise, who proceeded to walk Katie Holmes to her one“Welcome to the Captain” (2008), based on bedroom apartment inside. We all know the next act of that story. his experience living in the building. He was Griffin’s other favorite tales: the time when an oil heiress introduced to the El Royale by Stiller when went out of the building wearing only her underwear, a feathhe was living in the penthouse, which he passed on to Allison ered boa and a hat. “I ran out and retrieved her and said, ‘I Shearmur, now the president of Lionsgate, who gave a toast at think you best put a dress on if you’re going down Rossmore,’” Griffin’s farewell fete in late February, attended by about 100 says Griffin, laughing. And then there was the woman who got people. (Shearmur lived in the penthouse for a decade and evicted and was carried out wearing only a sheet by the cops started the building tradition of having photocopies of the after getting into a fight with her bookie/chauffeur, back when weekend’s box office numbers available in the lobby.) there was a gambling den run out of the garage.

“The more time I spent at the El Royale, the more I felt like Through it all, Griffin has smoothed over the wrinkles and it had a unique, unbelievable cast of characters,” says Hammade the problems disappear quietly. She’s been known to burg, a born-and-bred New Yorker who now primarily lives in pick a certain tenant up from the police station on more than Manhattan. “Strange things became normal on a daily basis. one occasion. Before she left, she helped a single resident There was this great warm family feeling; some of my favorite move to a smaller, more affordable apartment after the tenant TV shows have this—a group of disparate people coming tolost her job so she wouldn’t have to conTinued on page 127

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Because of its close proximity to Paramount, the studio’s stars and executives were among the El Royale’s first residents. Notable inhabitants like Cameron Diaz have been known to entertain on the building’s lushly planted roof deck.

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C travel Valley High With its new Herb Garden addition, Ojai Valley Inn & Spa offers fresh levels of relaxation

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ike a resort within a resort, Ojai Valley Inn & Spa’s new Herb Garden gives guests an added dose of tranquility on top of the property’s numerous amenities. With 17 new suites decorated in shades of lavender, two self-contained spa treatment rooms for private pampering and a spacious new pool, Herb Garden guests could be forgiven for never venturing to the Inn’s golf course or tennis courts. A dozen cabanas around the pool, along with tented teahouses amidst the tiered garden, ensure a perfectly secluded experience, while the new Herb Garden Cafe is on hand to satisfy any culinary craving—likely with a hint of rosemary in the mix. 905 Country Club Rd., Ojai, 805-646-1111; ojairesort.com. N.C.

A serene alternative to the resort’s main pool, the 70-foot-long Herb Garden pool caters to adult guests.

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Dezso’s India-sourced diamond ring. Jaipur’s beloved rambagh Palace. Visit “bangle lane” in the old city and the morning flower market at Phool mandi. The allsuite Devi Garh is a quick trip from Jaipur.

Jaipur lures jet-setters, royals and fashionforward designers from around the globe

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ithin Rajasthan, Jaipur glitters like a sparkling diamond. It’s impossible not to be seduced by the Pink City.

Here, a sampling of the delights waiting to be discovered in this playground for the senses.

Discover treasures among the city’s leading bazaars, like the Gem Palace (gempalacejaipur.com), which reigns supreme when it comes to heritage jewelry and couture design. The Kasliwal family was the court jeweler to India’s great Mughal Emperors and later established this Jaipur emporium in 1852. You’ll be mesmerized by the jaw-dropping jewels from the family vault.

In 2005, Munnu Kasliwal of the Gem Palace and French jewelry designer Marie-Hélène de Taillac teamed up to open Hot Pink (hot pinkindia.com) in the gardens of the Narain Niwas Palace Hotel.

The concept boutique will make you blush with passion for contemporary Indian fashion. Their own line of One-of-a-kind caftans, bags and home emerald, ruby and accessories are fun, vidiamond cuffs from Gem Palace. brant and contagious.

Get past the tourist entrance at Saurashtra and ask to dig for treasure upstairs, where you’ll find embroidered

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Pakistani pillowcases, Afghan beaded bags, belts and blankets. Be ready to barter, and bring cash.

Sara Beltrán’s inspirations for her jewelry line, Dezso (sarabel tran.com), are the sandy beaches of Ibiza and Kona, but this saucy Mexico transplant, who now calls Mumbai home, sources her stones from all over India. Jade Jagger, among others, is a fan of her organic and oceanic designs.

Swedish beauty Sophia Edstrand’s fascination for Indian handicraft began while working with de Taillac in Jaipur. The inspired 26-year-old started creating embroidered necklaces, bracelets and belts with colorful heart and floral motifs. Now her collection, Sophia 203, is sold at Hot Pink in Jaipur and Colette in Paris.

Jaipur’s leading places to stay include India’s seven-star luxury resort Oberoi Rajvillas (oberoihotels.com). The 32-acre property is replete with Raj pavilions, regal tents, azure pools and an incomparably kind and accommodating staff.

Walk the same halls as maharajas and maharanis at the Rambagh Palace (tajhotels.com). The 47-acre, former royal home was converted into a hotel in 1957. With 42 opulent rooms and 33 suites, some with their original chandeliers and fountains, this posh palace provides private butler service, nightly folk performances and an occasional elephant polo match.

Book a quick flight on local airline IndiGo (goindigo.in) to visit Devi Garh (deviresorts.in), a restored 18th-century palace, which attracts fashion-world movers and shakers such as frequent guests Tom Ford and Elizabeth Hurley. GINA TOLLESON

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STAYING CONNECTED My MacBook Air for iChat—if I’m not with my loved ones, I can see them. apple.com. SECURITY CHECKLIST 1. Before your travel date, go online and check the latest security rules so you don’t have any surprises once you’re there. 2. Use the airline’s online check-in when available. 3. Most airlines have representation and the ability to meet and assist at the airport. They can’t walk you through without having to do security or customs, but they’ll help guide you. B. Romanek handbags are available at Barneys New York.

With fine leather exteriors and ultra-soft lining, jewelry cases make the ultimate statement piece for private travel, weekend jaunts or simply enhancing a dressing table. Here are two of the season’s best. In capra leather, Asprey’s chic case in subtle Sand features a travel-ready jewelry envelope. smythson’s boasts three removable trays, a palladium-coated solid brass lock and fittings in Mimosa goatskin.

Asprey large jewelry box in Sand, $3,100, asprey.com. Smythson jewelry box in Mimosa, $2,450, smythson.com.

Case study Rimowa has had such great success with Salsa Air (pictured left), the lightest-weight of its polycarbonate collections, that it’s launching two new lines exclusive to the Beverly Hills’ boutique: Salsa Deluxe Speedy and Salsa Deluxe White. 332 N. Rodeo Dr., B.H., 310-888-8686; rimowa.com.

Rimowa Salsa Air multiwheel trollies in Inca Gold, Ultra Violet and Aquamarine.

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320-9299; kyochon.com. ChoSun Galbee,

then-obscure small California producers with

3330 W. Olympic Blvd., L.A., 323-734-3330;

names like Heitz, Mayacamas and Caymus—I

chosungalbee.com. Dong II Jang, 3455 W. 8th

decided that it was “my” restaurant, even

St., L.A., 213-383-5757. BCD Tofu House,

more so than Chasen’s had been. Sure, my

(transliterated differently everywhere). Still,

3575 Wilshire Blvd., L.A., 213-382-6677; bcd

parents introduced me to it and took me there

BBQ—cooked on tabletop grills by charm-

tofu.com. Bonjuk, 3551 Wilshire Blvd., L.A.,

a lot, but when I walked into Scandia’s warm,

ingly attired waitstaff—is the specialty. “Gal-

213-380-2248; bonjuk.com. Olive Bakery, 928

always animated foyer, alone or with friends,

bee” is actually a popular BBQ meat (soy-

South Western Ave., Ste. 153, L.A., 213-385-

I knew that I’d be greeted by name and made

6971; olivebakery.com. •

to feel absolutely at home—if not by Ken Han-

SubliMe Scandia

noncommittal nod, then certainly by Angel

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sauce-marinated short ribs). Thinner, leaner bulgogi beef is also delicious. And the whole experience comes complete with panchan (or “banchan”) sides like kimchi and fish cakes.

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the maître d’hôtel, Freddy the manager, John the bartender and roughly half the waiters.

Somehow, nearby BBQ spot Dong II Jang has remained a well-kept secret of the Korean

sen himself, who rarely gave me more than a

almost certainly with glasses in hand.

For at least six or eight years, it’s safe to say,

community. The casual space—with comfy

Scandia never seemed as magical as Cha-

leather diner booths—also offers groups the

sen’s—my favorite restaurant in my younger

option of sitting shoeless on pillows in a spe-

years—did to me, but it felt every bit as com-

Unfortunately, it didn’t last. In 1978, Ken

cial raised wood-floored room. While bulgogi

fortable, and I loved the food. The menu was

Hansen was ready to retire, and sold Scandia

there was no restaurant in Los Angeles that I would rather have gone to.

and galbee are just as flavorful here, the most

huge, both physically (it measured about 12

to one of his longtime regular customers, the

notable items are sides: Flavorful Chop Chae

by 16 inches) and in the sheer quantity and

magazine mogul and big-game hunter Bob

glass noodles are sautéed with beef and vege-

breadth of what it offered. All the “continen-

Peterson, whose offices (in the lobby of which

tables, and seafood and/or pork pancakes are

tal” standards that any expensive American

stood a stuffed polar bear he’d reportedly shot

served with a spicy soy dipping sauce that’s

or European restaurant of the time was ex-

with a forty-five-caliber handgun) were just

hard not to drink.

pected to have were there—shrimp cocktail,

down the street. The restaurant continued on

The menu at BCD Tofu House also in-

wilted spinach salad, vichyssoise, Lake Supe-

more or less as before for some years, though

cludes bulgogi, but their specialty is Soon

rior whitefish (was there any other kind?),

regulars noted that the ship wasn’t run as

Tofu stew. Versions include meat and dump-

chateaubriand, baked Alaska—but there were

tightly as it had once been. During one of the

lings, but the base model stew is a bubbling

also dishes that made you feel as if you were

Christmas lunches I had there annually with

cauldron of tofu and red-flecked spicy broth

someplace else, someplace with a different

a group of wine-loving friends, a waiter

in incarnations from less-than-mild to hot.

sensibility…someplace, well, Scandinavian.

dropped a large tray full of dirty dishes and

At the large, bustling restaurant, stews come

Besides the herring, there were oysters baked

glasses at the edge of the dining room with a

with crunchy dill pickles on ice and fried

in their shells with herbs and akvavit, grav-

resounding crash and clatter. The dining room

whole yellow Covina fish (watch the bones,

laks with dill sauce, fried Norwegian lobster

was silent for a moment as the last resonance

but don’t be afraid to try it—it’s not fishy).

tails (frozen, certainly, but flavorful nonethe-

died out. Then somebody at our table cracked,

To calm the belly after too much soju

less), mushroom caps stuffed with snails in

“In Hansen’s day, that fellow would have

(South Korea’s answer to sake), head to Bon-

garlic and walnut butter, something called

been dead before the dishes hit the floor.”

juk for comforting rice porridge. These steam-

“The Crêpe” (which the menu described as

Hansen died in 1980. The restaurant last-

ing dishes with an oatmeal-like consistency

“Thin pancake wrapped around tiny coral-

ed longer, but lost its shine and, increasingly,

are topped with nori seaweed and sesame

pink Shrimps in Dill and Hollandaise, glaced

its customers, and its old-style virtues came to

seeds and can be combined with shrimp,

under fire”), böf med lög (a plump tenderloin

seem outmoded in the era of Spago. It closed

salmon, chicken and the more adventurous

steak buried under heaps of butter-fried onions), a selection of simply cooked fresh North

more than 20 years ago, in 1989. •

abalone. To help the decision-making process, Bonjuk—an unassuming spot with nice

Atlantic fish—turbot, plaice, sole—“via S.A.S.

wooden tables—offers nutritional menu nota-

over the Pole”—and, most exotically of all, a

tions like “helps children’s growth” or “keeps

tourist-pleasing showpiece called the “Viking

beauty for women.”

Sword.” Described on the menu as “Large bro-

To buy a little more privacy for her family,

So, what’s for dessert? Head to Olive

chette of broiled breast of turkey, small Chateau-

she bought an 11,000-square-foot fixer-upper

Bakery on the bottom floor of a Koreatown

Briand [sic], center of a smoked pork chop,

that once belonged to silent-film star Antonio

mall for plastic-wrapped baked goods that list

tomatoes and mushrooms, served on a flaming

Moreno in Laughlin Park, a gated neighbor-

ingredients in English. While cream-filled

sword with many kinds of vegetables and

hood near Griffith Park.

jelly-roll cake slices satiate a sweet tooth,

sauce béarnaise,” this anthology of victuals

“I stopped buying clothes and I started

doughnuts in unusual flavors, from curry to

made its dramatic passage through the dining

buying houses,” she jokes. Though she has

sesame to white bean, are the draw.

room, a blazing brochette held high by a white-

plenty of experience restoring properties—

Such deep-fried baked goods are hardly

garbed waiter, always eliciting oohs and aahs.

she updated her current home, a 1920s

health food, but—like the Kyochon slogan

As I grew old enough to come to Scandia

Spanish-style house, and furnished it herself

says—no doubt they contribute to an

on my own, and to legally enjoy the akvavit—

in an ethnic, Moroccan theme, and oversaw

“ecstatic body & soul.”

and various bottles from the extraordinary

the renovation of a midcentury modern

Kyochon, 2515 Torrance Blvd., Torrance, 310-

bargain-price wine list, especially strong in

home in Hollywood which she rents to

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tenants—this latest project is big even by

land’s King Edward VII as a diplomatic

pulled out of his grasp, Silver, who was due

Pompeo’s ambitious standards.

gesture of peace disguised as a birthday

back home that evening for his daughter’s sev-

“It’s an old Paul Williams house from

present. A New York Times report in 1907

enth birthday party, implored her not to sign

the ’20s, though they didn’t realize that

indicated the King was nervous about accept-

anything, no matter what they offered her, so

when they sold it to us,” she says. “It’s been

ing such a lavish gift from the relatively poor

that he would at least have the chance to

empty for so long. It’s a total Grey Gardens

people of Transvaal but, “it is regarded as

make a counteroffer.

house. Raccoons are living in it. It’ll take at

probable that the King will accept the present,

Back in Menlo Park, Silver found a mes-

least a year for us to finish. I love doing the

as to decline it would be likely to cause ill-

sage from Robinson that the auction house

interiors myself, but I’m working with my

feeling, which is the last thing [England]

had named a price she couldn’t refuse.

friend Martyn Lawrence-Bullard on this

wants to see in the Transvaal.” Lo and behold,

Alarmed, he called her, pressing to know

one because it’s so huge. And Nancy Goslee

the King did accept the Cullinan and sent it

whether they had actually written her a check

Power is doing the gardens.”

off to the Asscher Brothers of Amsterdam,

outright, which auction houses are legally

For now, the architectural hobbyist has

who divided it into nine major gem-quality

barred from doing. “Well no,” she answered,

her hands full with a new baby, a looming res-

stones. The largest, 530 carats known as the

“but they assured me I would get at least one

toration project and the title role on a hit one-

First Star of Africa, is mounted in the head of

hundred thousand dollars more than what

hour show. But when this ride is over—the

the British royal scepter. The second-largest

we had agreed on.” In the hours since first

cast just renegotiated for two more seasons—

piece, 317 carats called the Lesser Star of

seeing the necklace, it had become increas-

she’ll be happy to move on, maybe have an-

Africa, became the fourth-largest polished

ingly clear to Silver that owning this glittering

other baby, perhaps spend more time eating

diamond in the world and belongs, with the

relic would not only be a point of pride, but

ice cream on a street corner in France.

rest of the polished Cullinan fragments, to the

would greatly lift the prominence of his busi-

Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom.

ness. The values being discussed for the piece

“If the show ended right now, I’d still be thrilled,” she says. “I want to do something

While she lost out on her husband’s big-

transcended its material worth, and Silver de-

different. I want to challenge myself and go on

gest prize, Annie Cullinan would not be dis-

cided it was worth pursuing the gem to add

auditions again and do something scary. May-

appointed for long. For his true love, the mas-

its mythical potency to his portfolio. “Rarely

be I’ve forgotten how to act? Maybe I’ll be

ter prospector set about crafting a special

in our industry do you have something like

Meredith Grey forever.

necklace featuring a handful of extraordinary

this, with a firsthand accounting of history,

“I just want to do good projects and

stones. Cullinan’s mine remains the only

with the piece being sold to you from a pri-

good work for me,” she adds. “Those people

known significant source of blue diamonds in

mary owner, with provenance that can be

who live their lives trying to make other

the world, and he gradually assembled a set of

bona fide without question, and which the

people like them? There’s something wrong

nine luminous stones the color of the sky,

world has never been exposed to before,” says

along with 251 other diamonds, with which

Silver. “I saw it as a career opportunity.”

with their heads.”

•

to forge his gift for Annie. The occasion to

And so he matched the auction house’s

give her the necklace, which includes 5.32

higher price, convincing Robinson to annul

carats of blue diamonds, arose when King

the contract she had signed with them. Silver

George elected to knight Cullinan for his lar-

dispatched an employee to retrieve the neck-

on one of the freshly exposed walls for almost

gesse and deft political maneuvering. The

lace from the auction house’s San Francisco

two weeks, thinking someone had affixed a

necklace was then passed to the first daughter

coffers. “My biggest fear was that it wouldn’t

hunk of quartz to the mine as a practical joke.

in each successive Cullinan generation, wind-

be as beautiful or important as I thought,” he

Eventually, though, the foreman pried the

ing its way through appearances at opera ga-

recalls. But when it arrived, it met all of his

crystal off the wall with a knife, only to dis-

las in Johannesburg all the way to a bank in

expectations. The question, then, was what to

cover that he was holding a nearly flawless

downtown Portland, Oregon.

do with this trophy. The first move he made

crown jewelS continued from page 112

was to draft a letter to the National Gem Col-

3,109-carat diamond of the highest color grade.

lection at the Smithsonian.

“In over a hundred years, nothing has come

“Your great-grandfather was Thomas Cul-

even close to the Cullinan in terms of size and

linan?” asked Silver, imagining the various

Silver didn’t have any intention of resell-

purity,” says Silver. “There may be something

appraisers and possible buyers with whom

ing the necklace to make a profit, and so he

bigger out there—nothing’s finite about geol-

Robinson might be meeting. “Well, yes,” she

began a lengthy discussion with Jeffrey Post,

ogy—but it’s truly remarkable,” he adds.

replied, without any particular pride or en-

Geologist and Curator-in-Charge of Mineral

According to Robinson, Cullinan thus

thusiasm. “Let me tell you,” he said, “if any-

Sciences at the Smithsonian. Learning of the

delivered on a promise he made to his wife,

one you show this necklace to does not know

Cullinan Necklace’s existence from Silver

Annie, to one day bring her “the biggest dia-

who your great-grandfather was, they have no

was a revelation for Post. “Any piece these

mond in the world.” But his plans for the

business owning it.” Having established an

days that has any kind of significant blue dia-

crystal went far beyond the home front. In the

understanding between them, Silver made an

monds in it is already special,” he says. One

wake of the recently ended Boer war between

offer, which Robinson accepted. But just

out of 200,000 diamonds might have a strong

Britain and the Dutch-descended settlers of

when the ink on the deal was nearly dry, she

enough color to rate as a “colored” or “fancy”

the Transvaal region of South Africa, Cullinan

revealed she did have one more appointment

diamond, he notes, and among those few,

orchestrated the sale of the one-and-a-half-

that afternoon with an auction house from

blue is among the rarest, with only a handful

pound diamond to the government of Trans-

San Francisco, and she felt obligated to hear

being discovered every year, and some years

vaal on the condition that it be given to Eng-

them out. Flummoxed at having the necklace

none at all. But it was the necklace’s story that

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tower oF power continued from page 116

body,’” says Ventimigilia, who quickly asked Huvane to put in a good word. Then, Weinberg went to La Brea Bakery and asked the

diamonds, but it’s a nice bonus that you have

baker to make special cookies shaped like the

a piece that connects back to one of the most leave the building. Most importantly, Griffin

El Royale, complete with neon-green frosting

After a temporary one-year exhibit of the

acted as a discerning gatekeeper, literally

at the top. Within 20 minutes of the cookies

necklace at the Smithsonian in 1994, Silver

holding the keys to the castle. No one got into

being delivered to Griffin, they got a call from

continued to ponder where it should ulti-

the El Royale without her approval, which

her. They were in, and they’re still there.

mately reside. And in 2006 he arrived at the

was often won by unconventional means.

famous names in diamond history,” he says.

“I never had to advertise,” says Griffin

conclusion the National Gem Collection,

Producer Gary Ventimigilia remembers

about the 55 rental units she oversaw. “We

which he likens to America’s crown jewels,

when his partner, David Weinberg, an attor-

always had a waiting list of people wanting in

ought to be its home. The piece is now in

ney, walked into the El Royale off the street

the building, but since Martha passed away,

Post’s hands in Washington, and he’s thrilled

and found out William Travilla, the Oscar-

there’s been a feeling of uncertainty.”

to be able to reveal this rare specimen to the

winning costume designer who designed

As for Ventimigilia and the other resi-

public after its long and quiet journey from

Marilyn Monroe’s billowing white halter

dents of L.A.’s most famous apartment

remote South Africa through the Northwest

dress in The Seven Year Itch had just died

building, it’s the end of an era.

and down to San Francisco. “The most capti-

and his 10th-floor apartment was available.

“The El Royale’s a lucky place for a lot

vating gems bring together this wonderful

(It’s the same one where Cage locked his

of people,” says Ventimigilia. “It’s rare

confluence of natural history, human history

girlfriend out on the terrace.)

that anyone lived here and left without some kind of connection, and Sandy was

and also beautiful artistry in one object,” he

“I was away and he called me and said, ‘I

notes. “This necklace does that very well.” •

saw this great apartment, you gotta call some-

that connection.” •

ON OUR COVER

Jewelry, 800-929-DIOR. Verdura faceted aquamarine and diamond Wrapped Heart brooch, $55,000, Neiman Marcus, Beverly Hills; verdura.com. Jacob & Co. yellowgold Link Chain necklace with two pavé diamond heart pendants, $8,800, Jacob & Co., N.Y., 212-719-5887.

harrywinston.com. De Grisogono amethyst, peridot, emerald, orange, pink and yellow sapphire earrings, price upon request, De Grisogono, N.Y., 212-439-4220.

Boucheron gadrooned drop sapphire and yellow sapphire Zaïa necklace, price upon request, Boucheron, S.F., 415-362-6020. Dior Fine Jewelry aquamarine Miss Dior ring, price upon request, select Dior Fine Jewelry, 800-929-DIOR. Chanel Fine Jewelry gold San Marco cuff with diamonds and pink, blue and red spinels, price upon request, select Chanel Fine Jewelry, 800-500-0005.

Bulgari High Jewelry necklace with rubellites and peridots, price upon request, select Bulgari; bulgari.com.

Salvatore Ferragamo mixed cotton limone dress, $1,490, Salvatore Ferragamo, S.F., 415-391-6565. Tiffany & Co.

by Frank Gehry yellow-gold Paper cuff, $12,500, Tiffany & Co., Beverly Hills, 310-273-8880. David Yurman gold Crossover cuff with pavé diamonds, $6,300, and black onyx ring with pavé diamonds, $4,500, David Yurman, Beverly Hills, 310-888-8618.

TABLE OF CONTENTS p.8 Christian Dior silk crepon herringbone-print dress and patent belt, $4,800, select Christian Dior, 800-929-DIOR. Bulgari High Jewelry blue sapphire and diamond ring, price upon request, select Bulgari; bulgari.com. p.10 Missoni pink leather woven bag, $3,405, Missoni, Beverly Hills; missoni.com.

Repossi orange zircon ring set in pink gold and brown diamonds, and green jade Indra necklace with diamonds and black gold, prices upon request, Repossi, Paris; repossi.com. Chanel Fine Jewelry gold San Marco ring with cultured-pearl center, price upon request, select Chanel Fine Jewelry, 800-500-0005. Dior Fine Jewelry citrine Miss Dior ring in yellow gold with diamonds, price upon request, select Dior Fine Jewelry, 800-929-DIOR. Miu Miu cream sunglasses, similar styles available, Miu Miu, Beverly Hills, 310-247-2227.

C FASHION FINE TIME, p.43 Van Cleef & Arpels white-gold Hibiscus watch with mother-of-pearl inlay dial on round diamond bracelet, $250,000, Van Cleef & Arpels, Costa Mesa, 714-545-9500. JEWELRY BOX, p.50 De Beers diamond and platinum Aero cuff bracelet, $380,000, De Beers, South Coast Plaza, 714-641-5820. Tiffany & Co. heart-shaped diamond earrings, $2,350,000, Tiffany & Co., Beverly Hills, 310-273-8880. Tom Binns gold Bitten Heart brooch, $115, Tom Binns Megastore, N.Y., tombinnsdesign.com. De Grisogono blue sapphire and diamond heart-shaped ring set in white gold, price upon request, De Grisogono, N.Y., 212-439-4220. Van Cleef & Arpels white mother-of-pearl and diamond Effeuillage ring, $3,150, Van Cleef & Arpels, South Coast Plaza, 714545-9500. Dior Fine Jewelry white gold with diamonds Cupidon ring, price upon request, select Dior Fine

BEACH BAUBLES p.84-85 Chanel white Luxo sunglasses, $340, select Chanel; chanel.com. Van Cleef & Arpels turquoise, diamond and peridot Nour bracelet, price upon request, Van Cleef & Arpels, Costa Mesa, 714-545-9500. De Grisogono purple sapphire and diamond ring, price upon request, De Grisogono, N.Y., 212-439-4220. Repossi white-gold and diamond Moon ring set with button turquoise, price upon request, Repossi, Paris; repossi. com. p.86 Hermès teak and leather deck chair, $3,150, select Hermès, 800-441-4488. Chanel yellow jersey handbag, $2,325, select Chanel; chanel.com. Repossi angel-skin coral necklace set with diamonds in pink gold, price upon request, Repossi, Paris; repossi.com. Cartier diamond and onyx Panthère de Cartier necklace, price upon request, Cartier, S.F., 415-397-3180. Harry Winston yellow sapphire and diamond necklace, price upon request, select Harry Winston; harrywinston.com. p.87 Christian Louboutin ivory patent-leather cutout Fernando high heels, $925, Christian Louboutin, West Hollywood, 310-247-9300; and platinum laminated Lolita Maxi canvas bag with gold-chain strap, $995, select Foot Candy, 877-517-4606. Chanel Fine Jewelry whitegold San Marco brooch with South Sea pearl center, $140,000, select Chanel Fine Jewelry, 800-500-0005. p.88-89 See “Table of Contents.” p.90 Bulgari green quartz and diamond Parentesi cocktail ring, $7,900, select Bulgari; bulgari.com. Chanel Fine Jewelry white ceramic J12 watch with gold and diamond index, $8,720, select Chanel Fine Jewelry, 800-500-0005. Christian Dior gold bikini, $520, Christian Dior, Beverly Hills, 800-929-DIOR. p.91 Dior Fine Jewelry citrine Incroyables et Merveilleuses Muguet ring, price upon request, select Dior Fine Jewelry, 800-929-DIOR. Hermès cotton beach towel, $530, select Hermès, 800-441-4488. Missoni yellow Cabras bikini, $395, Missoni, Beverly Hills; missoni.com. p.92-93 Harry Winston ruby and diamond bracelet, price upon request, select Harry Winston;

ESSENTIALLY ELLEN p.94-95 Bally silk georgette powder-colored tank, $195, Bally, Beverly Hills, 310-271-3310. Stella McCartney blush silk shorts, $585, Stella McCartney, L.A., 310-2737051. Christian Louboutin nude patent-leather cutout Fernando high heels, $925, Christian Louboutin, South Coast Plaza, 714-754-9200. Tiffany & Co. by Elsa Peretti yellow-gold Aegean necklace, $13,500, Tiffany & Co., Beverly Hills, 310-273-8880. Verdura white-gold Criss Cross cuff, $11,500, Neiman Marcus, Beverly Hills; verdura.com. p.96 Alberta Ferretti white plissé silk Vneck dress, $2,895, Alberta Ferretti, L.A., 310-652-9000.

Bulgari High Jewelry pink-gold and mother-of-pearl Serpentine bracelet, price upon request, select Bulgari; bulgari.com. p.98 Bottega Veneta canvas cotton silk dress, $2,800, select Bottega Veneta, 877-362-1715.

Bulgari High Jewelry peridot and diamond necklace, price upon request, select Bulgari; bulgari.com.

CORRECTIONS In the March 2010 Issue, “Center Stage” (p.140), the Mandarin Oriental Las Vegas’ address was misprinted. It is 3752 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las Vegas, NV. In the Weddings 2010 Issue, “About A Dress” (p.30), the square footage of Monique Lhuillier’s Melrose Place salon was misprinted. It is approximately 4,000 square feet.

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elizabeth taylor, 1959 Wearing jewels given to her by her fourth husband, singer eddie Fisher, elizabeth taylor takes in his performance at the tropicana in las Vegas.

Fisher would later say, “a $50,000 diamond could keep her happy for approximately four days.� their marriage ended five years later and taylor has married four more times, but her love for jewelry is a lifetime affair.

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