Add another event to the list of industry gatherings making a robust return in 2023. While the La Cienega Design Quarter’s Legends festival made a soft return last year, the West Hollywood-based consortium of 45 design businesses just wrapped a robust agenda of talks, parties, and new product launches as part of its 13th edition. (Not to mention, the Quarter has been extended by one-square mile to add Melrose Avenue showrooms west of the Pacific Design Center and San Vicente to the fun.) Our favorite event? The window display reveal, a marquee Legends tradition in which dozens of interior design firms reimagine the La Cienega Design Quarter’s showroom windows.
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Thirty-two design firms from across the country unveiled their inspired interior ensembles this week. “This [year’s] theme, the Fashion of Home, lends itself to allowing all the window designers to be creative,” says Elizabeth Kaplan, an LCDQ volunteer board member and CEO of Paul Ferrante, the Melrose Place lighting specialist and antique dealer that helped plant the seeds of what became the LCDQ. “It doesn’t pigeonhole them into any one design aesthetic, and it’s really open to interpretation.”
Below, take a digital stroll through the streets of the La Cienega Design Quarter and enjoy the newly redesigned window displays.
Mecox by Eric Hughes
Concepting a composite version of Sarah Jessica Parker’s office/dressing room came easy for designer Eric Hughes, who’s shared a decades-long creative partnership with the actress and producer. “I wanted to make it more personal. It’s a lot of winks and nods between the two of us,” says Hughes, pointing to the matchbook from the Plaza Hotel, one of the pair’s favorite Manhattan landmarks. The Townhouse carnation pattern from the duo’s Wallshoppe collaboration envelopes the walls and window treatments, beautifully paired with a Victorian-style wicker peacock chair in Moss Green from Mecox and a Paul Laszlo Basket Weave desk from Harvey’s on Beverly. Completing the fashion statement? A taxi cab and hot-dog stand stationed outside of Mecox during Legends.