Installations

Flower Machine @krystalchang The FLOWER MACHINE is a participatory installation that will change shape over the course of the festival. It demands a moment of creation by each person, it forms a moment of exchange between strangers, it sows a field of flower markers by which participants may recognize each other. It is transformed in turn: over the course of the festival, the skin of the machine will be papered over by the offered drawings, turning the hidden interior of real flowers into an exterior display of imagined flowers.

Sky Gazing Tower @somepeople_studio The purpose of the “Sky Gazing Tower” is to address issues and challenges that citizens of global cities face everyday, such as social anxiety, stress, and agoraphobia, by creating an installation that provides a personal space for the public to decompress while gazing at the sky. The “Sky Gazing Tower” gives space and time to each individual to just stare at the sky alone, while being surrounded by a hanging translucent pink membrane that diffuses the light and creates a soothing environment. The installation ia a low-cost lightweight structure that can be easily assembled and transported. It consists of a white steel frame and vinyl pink membrane stripes that hang loosely from the top ring, covering the upper part of the body but leaving the legs visible to the public making clear that the tower is occupied. The translucency of the membrane allows a subtle connection with the exterior while at the same time provides a place of retreat.

Big Will and Friends @_architectureoffice Designed by Architecture Office, this installation redraws the popular Morris and Co. Wallpaper ‘Thistle,’ designed by John Henry Dearle in the late 19th century, into an inhabitable visual environment, establishing the wallpaper as intersection for various forms of knowledge. Traditionally, walls act as a support for hanging pictures, distinctly separating the structural from the pictorial. The layers of Big Will and Friends produce a visual thickness that melds the thin scrim wall with the painted pattern, blurring the distinction between the pictorial and the material properties of its architectural support. The scrim material produces shifting visual effects as the light changes throughout the day, causing the viewer’s perception to oscillate between material deployed as image, and image deployed as material.

Lenita by Grita x SKO HABIBI @lenitabygrita Pulo Project is a series of installations and experiences dedicated to the art and culture of the Philippines. Through contemporary fashion, design, and multi-sensory events, Pulo Project brings life to the Bayanihan spir- it to recognize and celebrate the Filipino arts. LENITA BY GRITA + SKO

HABIBI joins Pulo Project during The 9th Annual LA Design Festival with the purpose to merge art, design and flores in the spirit of the Philippines.

Vertical Garden @ghatit.studio The studio has designed a pavilion for this year’s festival that brings together plants and shade under a timber framed space to create a small urban park in the middle of ROW DTLA The studio is founded by Adham el Ghatit. Adham received his Masters degree in Advanced Architectural Design from Colum- bia University. He then worked at leading ar- chitecture firms in New York including SHoP and Handel Architects on multiple award winning projects. After spending 8 years in New York City, he moved to Los Angeles where he founded Ghatit Studio.

Succulent Walls @themadworkshop

Succulent Walls tackles how architecture can respond to Southern California’s precarious relationship to water and lack of disaster preparedness. The work of a Master of Architecture (M.Arch.I) Research Studio taught by Heather Roberge, this collaboration between Mary and David Martin’s MADWORKSHOP and UCLA Architecture and Urban Designprototypes a series of residential water catchment systems. By integrating a system for easily installed water storage and food production into the residential vernacular, the class of eleven graduate students hopes to trans- form our laissez-faire attitude towards this critical and finite resource into one of proactive self-sufficien- cy. Five group projects were distilled into two super-group designs that will be showcased at the LA Design Festival Students: Christopher Doerr, Daniel Greteman, Ian Rodgers, Caroline Watts, Jenny Zhou, Nichole Tortorici, Talia Landes, Xiangkun Hu, Xihan Lyu, Xinwen Zhang, Yiran Chen

Oasys @oasysliving @resourcefurniture @haieramerica @themarvinbrand @vadaraquartz @amberleafcabinetry @veneerdesigns

Oasys by Stereobot offers a prefabricated and more efficient way to build accessory dwelling units. Oasys will build one of their modern, minimal homes on-site at ROW DTLA where it will live through the summer as an example of how you can live spaciously, more personally, and get there much faster.

This backyard residence takes center stage on Market Row for the duration of the LA Design Festival. The interiors are styled by Veneer Designs, a Los Angeles-based interior designer known for her “Scandifornian” aesthetic. Transformative Resource Furniture features modern, multifunctional pieces throughout the house. Marvin, Vadara Quartz, Haier, and Amberleaf have also outfitted the space.

Oasys is the first stop on the ADU Home Tour on Saturday, June 22. Tickets still available. After the LA Design Festival, Oasys will stay on Market Row through the summer along with Resource Furniture as a information and resource center for homeowners interested in becoming micro-developers and exploring this new typology.

Spaces for Spontaneous Singing @dreamlandcreativeprojects Special thanks to @awesomefound and @JMEaglePipe ‘Spaces for Spontaneous Singing’, an installation by Dreamland Creative Projects for the LA Design Festival’s 2019 theme ‘Design with Purpose’, invokes the ‘Purpose of Joy’. It brings the activity of uninhibited singing from a private spatial experience of one’s shower, to the public street, inviting moments of joyful expression within a new form of dedicated urban mini ‘singing shower park’. In play and joy, vulnerable boundaries of the private and public dissolve. This installation pushes the boundary of personal norms into public social behavior, using an ‘authorized’ play setting for all ages. By reversing public and private behavioral, stereotypical spatial designations, it seeks to explore ideas about belonging - where we feel comfortable, where we hide, and where we test our private face in public. The hope is that this experiment yields both the stepping over restrictive personal thresholds, in a community of participants, and the temporary reclamation of urban space for alternative public territory. Designed as an intergenerational experience, waterless showers, small stages, privacy screens and seating can be used alone, or as a social grouping, allowing for a private singing experience or for couples, families and friends to sing or watch together. It asks, what is your song?

X3 @xtenarchitecture Utilizing the simplest of silhouettes, XTEN’s installation X3 at the LA Design Festival manipulates the faces of a cube to amplify the exterior environment. Upon approach, mirrors on three sides of the faceted cube distort and intensify the surrounding context while dematerializing the object itself. The fourth side presents a portal, framing a view of the unencumbered sky – a distinct and contrasting moment of calm enclosed in noise.

OWIU @owiudesign OWIU, an abbreviation for The Only Way Is Up, is a full-service creative design office located in the heart of Los Angeles. OWIU is the brainchild of Joel Wong and Amanda Gunawan, two designers with proficient architectural knowledge.

Intimacy Incubator Evan Bliss/Omar Khaireddin The inspiration for an INTIMACY INCUBATOR is a desire to bring people together, and for attendees to experience beautiful art & design as well as beautiful human connection.

Sticks and Stones @patrickgeske @codykminer This installation approaches the theme “Design With Purpose” with multiple intentions: 1. to use as many off-the-shelf parts as possible; 2. to use recycled materials like a weightless, candy-colored Joshua Tree, the soft forms create a lively and materials in the pro- duction of custom form; 3. to offer something of value to layered environment for relaxing or taking photos and an architectural effect of participants in the Design Festival. Buoyancy and ease.

JUNE 10-23, 10AM Mud x Vitsoe @mudaustralia, @vitsoe Mud Australia x Vitsoe offer timeless and elegant design for everyday. See this vibrant window display, designed to be a blank canvas on which to paint your colorful life. JUNE 19, 5PM-8PM Biking in LA x Bridging the Gap @abramsonteigerarchitects Abramson Teiger Architects hosts a conversation discussing short and long term strategies for creating a more accessible and interconnected city. JUNE 20-29, 10AM-7PM The Collector’s Vision at HOFA Gallery - Exhibition @thehouseoffineart See works by Marco Grassi, Camille Hannah, Zuang Hong-Yi, Ilhwa Kim, Robert Standish, Maxim Wakultschik, and Wang Ziling in this new exhibition. JUNE 20-30, ALL DAY “Radiant Peel” Exhibition by Sam Thomas Rarotonga based artist Sam Thomas ex- hibits a new light installation at Simeona Leona, the Koreatown design studio. JUNE 20, 5:30PM-7:30PM Town Halls @ We: Is the Future of Mobility Angeleno Friendly? @wework Join WeWork, local LA transportation stakeholders, and community leaders for their first-ever Town Hall @ We event. JUNE 20, 6PM-8PM Design x Wellness with Modern Luxury Interiors California @helmsbakerydistrict, @interiorscalifornia Head to Helms Bakery District to enjoy light bites, refreshments, and a panel conversation about Design x Wellness followed by a Q&A. JUNE 20, 6PM-8PM Tom Dixon x Contemporary Days Film Screening Catch a screening of Contemporary Days, a documentary about Robin and Lucienne Day, hosted by Tom Dixon. JUNE 22, 10AM-3PM ADU Home Tour @bunch_design, @coverbuild, @mas4la, @stereo_bot, @oasysliving, @5plusdesign Step inside some of today’s most inspir- ing Accessory Dwelling Units (ADU), and meet the innovators embracing this new typology and technology. JUNE 22-23, 10AM-5PM THE GOODS MARKET by Bend @bendgoods See Bend’s new showroom! Shop goods from Back Beat Rags, Bandits Bandanas, btw ceramics, Graf Lantz, P.F. Candle Co, Stuffed Cookies, Urbana Sacs, and Year Of Ours JUNE 22, 10AM-5PM Studio Open House x Kohler Street Collective @neptune_glassworks, @whorehausstudios, @fathomandform_, @nicholasknudsonart, @londubhstudio, @lindseykearns, @robertsiegelstudio, @kreep.ceramics, @sibelley Meet the artists and designers of The Kohler Street Collective, and tour their studios. JUNE 22, 10AM-5PM Pulo Project x Please Do Not Enter @puloproject, @pleasedonotenter Join Pulo Project curator Michelle Aquino for a tour of dual exhibitions hosted by Please Do Not Enter. JUNE 22, 11AM-11:45AM The Collector’s Vision hosted by HOFA Gallery - Conversation @thehouseoffineart An informal discussion over coffee and cocktails with Los Angeles based art industry professionals and art collectors at HOFA Gallery. JUNE 22, 3PM-6PM “Radiant Peel” Exhibition by Sam Thomas - Opening Event @samuelclementirwinthomas, @simeona_leona Celebrate Rarotonga based artist Sam Thomas’s new light installation at Sim - eona Leona with a lively discussion and frozen refreshments. JUNE 22, 3PM-9PM Hem Fest @hem Hem celebrates LA’s design community with a raffle auction, table tennis, a group exhibition, complimentary stick and poke tattoos, DJ performance, and refreshments. JUNE 22, 4PM-6PM Culture is Not Always Popular: Fifteen Years of Design Observer @jessicahelfand Join Jessica Helfand for a panel discussion with Lorraine Wild, Sean Adams, Louise Sandhaus, Dmitri Siegel, and Alissa Walker followed by a book signing. JUNE 22, 4PM-6PM OWIU Open Studio @owiudesign Join OWIU for an evening of conversation and a first look at a special collaborative installation with Japanese artist isao nakamura. JUNE 22, 5PM-10PM Stephen Kenn Loft Opening Party @stephenkennstudio Join Stephen Kenn and Beks Opperman for the opening party of the new Stephen Kenn Loft. Enjoy cocktails and light bites! JUNE 22, 7PM-10PM Design Supper Club x Laurel Hills House x Assembledge+ @assembledge The Design Supper Club is an itiner- ant, curated dinner experience that takes guests inside beautiful private spaces that embody LA’s progressive design ethos. JUNE 22, 7PM-10PM Block Party presented by A+D, Dopium, and Archinect @aplusd_la, @archinect, @dopium.la Join the A+D Museum, Archinect and Dopium by MSG for an outdoor block party highlighting today’s artists and tomorrow’s inspirations. JUNE 23, 12PM-5PM Helms Bakery District Wellness Expo: Designing a Healthy Mind, Body & Planet @helmsbakerydistrict Helms Bakery District partners with Leadership Culver City to host a free community Wellness Expo full of educa - tion, information, participation, and healthy fun. JUNE 23, 2PM-4PM KonMari Organization Tips + Giveaways at Room & Board @roomandboard, @sparkjoy_california, @heywoodpark_collective Get organization tips from Platinum Certified KonMari consultant Tricia Fidler. Enjoy complimentary mimosas, a brunch bar, and giveaways at Room & Board. JUNE 23, 8PM-11:30PM DOPIUM LA @ LA PLAZA CHINATOWN @dopium.la A one-night only multi-sensory art experience popping up in Chinatown, featuring ephemeral immersive works from LA artists.