Installations/Exhibitions

  • SOURCELA

    November 11, 2010 – January 31, 2011
    Produced by L.A. Mart® Design Center and Los Angeles Magazine, and curated by HGTV Design Star’s Matt Locke and L.A. Art Machine’s Bryson Strauss, SOURCELA is a juried, gallery-inspired pop-up design collective featuring one-of-a-kind, limited edition and new-to-market furnishings and art pieces available for purchase by trade and consumer audiences.

  • The Elegance of Our Times

    October 28, 2010
    A private VIP dinner celebration of Los Angeles tastemakers as featured in the fall 2010 issues of Angeleno and Angeleno Interiors. LAMDC’s Main Lobby is transformed into a chic supper club-meets-art gallery for 40 specially selected guests from L.A.’s top art, design and creative communities. An elegant dining table in a palette of metallic accents created by Small Masterpiece’s Jason Murakawa sets the tone for an autumnal four course menu conceived by celebrity Top Chef Ilan Hall, followed by an after-dinner selection of vintage ports and dessert pairings.

  • dreamSCAPE

    November 5 – December 31, 2009
    L.A. Mart® Design Center collaborates with Los Angeles Magazine and LOOK Gallery, partnering seven top L.A. design firms with seven cutting-edge artists, to present a conceptual design exhibition exploring the symbolic references of our personal spaces through the interplay of fine art and high design.

  • DIFFA’s Dining By Design

    September 13 – 15, 2008
    L.A. Mart® Design Center partners with Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA) to serve as Local Sponsor and host venue for the 2008 Los Angeles re-launch of DIFFA’s Dining By Design. Seeking a fresh, youthful point-of-view for its tablescapes, LAMDC taps Top Design’s Preston Lee, starring on the Bravo TV fall 2008 Season 2 series, and his design partner Jennifer Dyer of Design & Style to create chic and unexpected dining spaces that blend glamour and authenticity with drama, sophistication and playfulness.

  • Kenneth Brown Loft for L.A. Mart Design Center (2007)

    April 5 – 31, 2007
    Celebrity designer Kenneth Brown, star of HGTV’s reDesign, partners with L.A. Mart® Design Center to create a spectacular, 2,000+ square-foot custom loft showcase as part of Los Angeles magazine’s DesignLoft 2007: Biscuit Company Lofts … a design show house located at the historic former Nabisco Building in Downtown Los Angeles.

  • Fine Living 2026

    March 28 – 29, 2006
    The premier case-study installation of L.A.Design Week 2006 at NeoCon West, Fine Living: 2026 articulates a provocative vision of tomorrow’s live/work environment produced by L.A. Mart® Design Center, LA Architect magazine and four-time, National AIA award-winning architectural firm Tighe Architecture.

  • Fine Living: The Loft Life

    March 9 – 10, 2005
    Inspired by the unprecedented business and residential redevelopment L.A.’s central core and the emergence of a new urban live/work lifestyle, L.A. Mart® Design Center partners with award-winning Shimoda Design Group to create Fine Living: The Loft Life, a compelling concept installation for NeoCon West 2005.