Los ANGELES DESIGN WEEKEND 2024
When we were approached to participate in the first ever Los Angeles Design Weekend we immediately knew we wanted to go big or go home. Why participate in one event when you can participate in three!?
LA DESIGN WEEKEND is a weekend-long grassroots celebration of design, highlighting the sprawling Los Angeles design scene in digestible nuggets. Organized throughout 3 days in clustered, neighborhood-centric activations, this event invites both locals and non-locals to easily navigate the city’s widespread design community and experience LA on foot, scooter, bike, carpool, or via LA Metro.
Photo by Sydni Stearns
MIND MELD
Los Angeles, 2024
Project Team: Isaac Resnikoff, Hannah Go, Ren von Hasseln, LAUN STUDIO X DENVIR ENTERPRISES
The weekend for us started with the Mind Meld event hosted at Laun and DE’s downtown Los Angeles showroom and office. Mind Meld is an art and object collaborative show curated by DE and Laun. Artists and designers were paired with the task of creating a new object inspired by the other artist’s work.
Our creative partner was the fabulous Ren Von Hasseln, who created sculptural tiles to clad a coffee table armature made in the style of our iconic Remnants Table.
Photo of Ren von Hasseln x Project Room work by Yer Rin Mok
PROJECT ROOM OFFICE PARTY
Los Angeles, 2024
The next day we hosted our first ever office party at Project Room HQ! Visitors to the space got to peak behind the curtains at our full service design office, as well as get a sneak peak of some new and unreleased products.
We were excited to share our new space with our community. We retrofitted this former fine art studio with personal design touches that really make the office feel especially Project Roomy.
GARDEN PARTY
Los Angeles, 2024
Project Team: Isaac Resnikoff, Hannah Go, Helena Gatt, Terremoto
Lastly but surely not leastly… was a show co-curated by Project Room and Terremoto hosted at Terremoto’s office garden in North East Los Angeles.
Terremoto thinks of their garden as “a space to be driven and shaped by plants,” where “design is needed very little and maybe unwelcomed…without the desire to locate things, the garden becomes its own thing and we find our way within it, amongst it, and converse with it”.
It is in this spirit that the two studios conceived of the event. Wandering through the half-wild, working garden, guests encountered objects installed among the plants.
Lily Clark’s poetic fountains played off stacks of broken concrete, and Cedric Mitchell’s brightly colored glass sculptures stood in contrast against slabs of salvaged wood from Angel City Lumber.
Project Room’s own sand-cast aluminum vessel reflected sunlight even in the shadow of piles of plant matter, and stacks of concrete became pedestals for powder-coated chairs by Waka Waka and a ceramic table by LGS Studio. A playful carved wood bench by Belli seemed to bridge the gap between Would Works’ “Bee Hotels” and a pink rug from Rug Dept. by DE.
The foliage and cover crops in the garden are part of a long-term plan for soil remediation as the lot had been paved for the last 40+ years and thus denuded of naturally occurring soil nutrients.
Witchy beer and herbal tea was provided by Solarc Brewing.
Work by Project Room
Work by LGS
