Articles

In-depth guides and practical articles on designer wallcoverings.

• How an LA room actually gets specified: inside the Pacific Design Center The blue-and-green glass complex on Melrose is where a large share of Los Angeles's serious wallcovering decisions start, and it runs on trade rules a homeowner never sees.
• Hollywood Regency and the wall treatments that built the look Lacquer, oversized pattern, and studio-set glamour came out of a few named Los Angeles decorators working for the movie industry. Here is who they were and what they did to walls.
• Why Los Angeles rooms read as sun-washed, and the Case Study Houses that taught them to The relaxed, light-flooded LA interior traces to a postwar architecture program run out of a magazine, and its logic still governs how the city treats a wall.
• Set decoration and the LA wall: what production designers know about pattern on camera Los Angeles is a studio town, and its film craft has its own rules for wallcovering. What reads on a Burbank soundstage is not always what reads in a living room.
• Grasscloth, plaster, and the California organic-modern wall The textured, tonal, natural-material wall is the default in much of today's Los Angeles design. Here is what the two workhorse materials actually are and how they behave.
• Beyond Paint: Defining Los Angeles Style Through Wallcoverings