Helms Design District

Arcana Books Hosts a Book Signing With Photographer Moshe Brakha
2017-04-09 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
On Sunday, April 9th from 4:00 to 6:00PM, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for a book signing with photographer Moshe Brakha on the release of L.A. Babe: The Real Women of Los Angeles 1975-1988.
Moshe Brakha’s acidly crisp, otherworldly images evoke a certain stylistic sensibility and a knack for innovative and sensual photography that engages the viewer. This latest release, collects his most compelling subjects from the late seventies and early eighties – the various women he encountered all over Los Angeles. The book includes vintage portraits of legendary proto-punk band The Runaways, LaToya and Janet Jackson, Patricia Arquette, longtime Los Angeles scene-maker Angelyne, and many, many others. From Beverly Hills High School cheerleaders to brash bartenders and groupies, L.A. Babe captures the essential Los Angeles at its sunniest, coolest, grittiest glam and punk peak.
In a career spanning five decades, Moshe Brakha has created scores of iconic editorial images including work for the legendary Wet: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing and Beyond, and album covers for the likes of Devo, The Ramones, Sparks, Neil Young, Cat Stevens, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, Pat Benatar, The Weirdos, and Alice Coltrane.

Unmentionables: LA's 1st Interior Architecture Symposium
2017-04-07 16:00 - 2017-04-08 18:30 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Over the past two decades, Chu+Gooding have been honing their craft toward the mastery of the interior architectural experience. They have recommitted to their roots to create thoughtful and lasting architecture for those who dwell within it. A significant milestone in this twenty-year endeavor is the Unmentionables Symposium, an inaugural 2-day event hosted by Woodbury University’s Interior Architecture Department, where founding principal Annie Chu has taught for the past six years.
Unmentionables is aimed at exploring new narratives for interior architecture and establishing a precedent for welcoming previously unmentioned ideas in spatial practice and theory. The symposium will serve as a provocation for marginalia, taboos, illicit ideas, and undertheorized issues such as critical interiority and physical and virtual constructed environments.
Unmentionables brings together a range of notable thinkers and designers drawn from literature, architecture, film, art, philosophy, and interior design. Over the 2-day period, the symposium will feature persistently critical voices from around the country.
More info, full schedule, and tickets available at UnmentionablesSymposium.com

Cal Poly LA Metro Program Hosts B+U Architecture at the Helms Design Center
2017-04-04 18:30 - 20:30 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
On Tuesday, April 4 from 6:30 – 8:30 pm, Helms Bakery District is pleased to present a reception, lecture, and discussion with HERWIG BAUMGARTNER & SCOTT URIU of B+U ARCHITECTURE, in collaboration with the Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design. The evening will be introduced and moderated by Stephen Phillips, AIA, PhD, Principal of Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS) and professor, director, Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo).
The event is FREE and Open to the Public. Please RSVP to calpolylametro@gmail.com.
Free self-parking is available in the lots on Helms Avenue and Venice Boulevard.

UPCOMING SCHEDULE:
Thursday, April 20th: Heather Roberge of Murmur

About the Architects:
Baumgartner+Uriu Architecture

Headquartered in Los Angeles, California and established in 2000 by architects Herwig Baumgartner and Scott Uriu, Baumgartner+Uriu (B+U) are an internationally recognized design duo operating at the forefront of contemporary design. Their design process can be described as driven by digital techniques and advanced computation that utilizes new technologies and material resources. Baumgartner+Uriu’s work consistently pushes theboundaries of architecture and urban design by experimenting with new spatial concepts, intesnfiying existing urban landscapes in pursuit of a visionary aesthetic that encompasses all fields of design. The architects’ work has comprised cultural locations (including museums, concert halls and exhibition spaces), educational and transportation facilities, master planning and urban design, offices and mixed-use developments, restaurants, and residential work.

Baumgartner+Uriu’s work was recently exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles, California; the FRAC center in Orleans, France; the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France; the 12th Architecture Biennale in Venice Italy, the Architecture and Design Museum (A+D) in Los Angeles; the SCI-Arc gallery in Los Angeles, California; SITE gallery and David Richard Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico; INSITE gallery, Bangalore, india; the 2011 AIA Emerging Professional exhibition in Washington D.C.; the Stadtkrone 2030 Exhibition in Milan, Italy; the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria; at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc); and the Los Angeles Form for Architecture and Urban Design in Hollywood, California.

Baumgartner + Uriu recently have been named the world’’s top 50 innovators in the field of architecture and design by the publication 50 under 50. Two Monographs have been published on Baumgartner + Uriu’s work. The most recnet one, B+U- Designpeak 12, was published by Equalbooks and part of its monograph series. Their work has also been widely published and discussed in books magazines and newspapers such as Architectural Record, Architectural Digest, The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Magazine, Azure, FORM, Mark magazine; as well as on television and radio.

Baumgartner+Uriu is an award winning firm and has received the Maxine Frankel Award for design research (2010), the AIA national award for emerging professionals (2011), the A+Award for Sustainability (2012), the Graham Grant for advanced studies in the fine arts (2014), the COLA fellowship for 2015 from the City of Los Angeles- Department of Cultural Affairs and their Aperture project won the Best Design Innovation Project in the 2016 Blueprint Awards.

Herwig Baumgartner

Herwig Baumgartner, an Austrian native, is a licensed architect and principal/co-founder of Los Angeles based Architecture firm Baumgartner+Uriu (B+U). He received his diploma in Muisc and New Media from the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and his Master’s degree in Architecture from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Baumgartner has lectured and conducted workshops nationally and internationally and is a professor teaching design and applied studies in the graduate and undergraduate programs at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). Most recently, he represented SCI-Arc at one of the leading symposiums on recent developments in architectural geometry and computation at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Prior to founding B+U Baumgartner worked as a senior associate and project architect at Gehry Partners and also collaborated with artist Richard Serra.

Scott Uriu

Scott Uriu is a licensed architect and principal of B+U, which he co-founded. He was born in Davis, California, and was initially an undergraduate mathematics major at the university of California, Davis. He then received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from California State Polytechnic Pomona and studied at the Architectural Association in London, Diploma Unit 7. Uriu has lectured and conducted workshops nationally and internationally and is a professor and teaches design studio and applied studies at the University of Southern California (USC) and the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). He was previously part of the design faculty at Woodbury University. Prior to founding B+U, Uriu worked as an architect at Gehry Partners.

AIGA Presents "Designers Are Not Makers" at the Helms Design Center
2017-03-15 18:45 - 21:00 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
On Wednesday, March 15 please join us as we welcome AIGA to the Helms Design Center for a series of discussions and presentations for the design community.
The first topic, “Designers Are Not Makers”, addresses the growth we have witnessed in “maker” culture, leading to increased access to the tools and information needed to tinker, program, and build custom products and solutions. Manufacturing can now happen on a desktop as easily as in a home workshop. The benefits of stepping away from a computer to work with your hands continues to gain influence in business and culture. Yet, with all the focus on making, it is the designer who gets celebrated once the “making” becomes mass production.
Questions to be discussed:
As digital technology continues to insert itself into our daily lives, what is the role of the tactile?
What is the importance of physical creation in a world of digital technology, virtual reality, 3D printing and rapid prototyping?
And where does the act of designing stop, so the role of making can take over?
Agenda
6:45 PM: Meet & Greet
7:30 PM: Introduction
7:35 PM: First Speaker
8:05 PM: Second Speaker
8:30 PM: Q&A
8:50 PM: Closing Remarks
8:55 PM: Giveaways
9:00 PM: After Party
Ticket Pricing
Members (Contributing & Supporting): $15
Members (Sustaining & above): Free
Non-Members: $25
Requests for cancellation refunds may be granted only up to 24 hours before the event starts.
About The Speakers
Andrew Byrom is a British-born designer and educator based in Los Angeles. His clients include The New York Times Magazine, Sagmeister Inc., Penguin Books, The Architecture + Design Museum and UCLA Extension. His interdisciplinary work has been recognized by AIGA and the Type Directors Club. He has been featured in many design related publications and has exhibited his design work in venues across the United States, Europe and Asia. Andrew is currently teaching Advanced Typography and The History of Graphic Design at California State University, Long Beach.

Will Ayers is the Founder/Creative Director of fashion label WILLIAM; and the Principal of Design for the signage and wayfinding studio GNU Group. WILLIAM, with its atelier based in Downtown Los Angeles has debuted collections at Paris Fashion Week, Milan Fashion Week, and Pitti Uomo; collaborates with prestigious accounts including Farfetch. GNU Group, a design studio specializing in global programs of environmental graphics, branding, signage, and wayfinding; opened a new studio in Los Angeles established by Will Ayers, expanding their international presence.

Cal Poly LA Metro Program Hosts Tom Wiscombe Inside the Helms Design Center
2017-03-14 18:30 - 20:30 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
On Tuesday, March 14 from 6:30 – 8:30pm, Helms Bakery District is pleased to present a reception, lecture, and discussion with Tom Wiscombe of Tom Wiscombe Architecture, in collaboration with the Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design. The evening will be introduced and moderated by Stephen Phillips, AIA, PhD, Principal of Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS) and professor, director, Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo).
The event is FREE and Open to the Public. Please RSVP to calpolylametro@gmail.com. Free Parking is available at the Valet located on the corner of Helms Avenue and Venice Boulevard.
UPCOMING SCHEDULE:
Tuesday, April 4th: B+U Architects
Thursday, April 20th: Heather Roberge of Murmur
About the Architect
Tom Wiscombe
Born in La Jolla, California in 1970, Tom Wiscombe is an Architect living in Los Angeles. He is founder and principal of Tom Wiscombe Architecture, an internationally recognized design practice. His work stands out in terms of its mysterious figural features, its alluring graphic qualities, and its tectonic inventiveness.
Wiscombe has developed an international reputation through winning competition entries, exhibitions of work at major cultural institutions, and publications worldwide. In 2014, Wiscombe began planning and design of the Main Museum of Los Angeles Art with Tom Gilmore, the developer known for leading the re-vitalization of downtown Los Angeles. This project involves 105,000 square feet of renovation and new construction beneath, inside of, and on top of several historical bank buildings. In 2016, Wiscombe, together with Orange Barrel Media, MOCA, and Imaginary Forces, won the West Hollywood Sunset Spectacular competition, a new form of billboard for the 21st century. In 2014, Wiscombe also received Second Place in the international competition for the Kinmen Passenger Service Center, Taiwan. In 2011, Wiscombe won first place in the competition for the 123,000 square meter. Chinese National Games Civic Sports Arena in Shenyang.

Wiscombe is Chair of the Bachelor of Architecture Program at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), where he has taught for over 10 years. Wiscombe has taught Advanced Research studios as Visiting Professor at PennDesign (U. Penn) for 4 years, and in 2012, held the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professorship at Yale University. He has published texts on architectural theory in journals such as AD, Project, and LOG. His work is part of the permanent collection of the FRAC Centre Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, MoMA San Francisco, and MoMA New York.

Previously, Wiscombe worked for Coop Himmelb(l)au, where he was the right hand of Principal Wolf Prix for over 10 years. He was responsible for multiple international projects and large project teams from competition through realization. Notably, he was Chief Designer for the UFA Cinema Center, Dresden, BMW Welt, Munich, and the Lyon Museum of Confluences, known as three of the most important works of contemporary architecture.

H.D. Buttercup Hosts a Guest Designer Event on March 2nd
2017-03-02 17:00 - 19:00 | H.D. Buttercup | Coco Republic, 3225 Helms Avenue, Los Angeles,, CA, 90034, United States
Free
To kick off the month of March, H.D. Buttercup is hosting a Guest Designer Event. Please join them on Thursday, March 2 from 5:00 to 7:00PM for a meet and greet with five top designers from Los Angeles. The award-winning list includes: Lucie Ayers, Lindsay Chambers, Breeze Giannasio, Natalie Marom and Alexandra Rae. The designers will create in-store vignettes, exclusively with H.D. Buttercup products, inspiring customers to go for the unexpected.
Stop by for snacks, drinks and a whole world of inspiration!

Cal Poly LA Metro Program Hosts Patrick Tighe Inside the Helms Design Center
2017-02-25 18:30 - 20:30 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
On Saturday, February 25 from 6:30 – 8:30pm, Helms Bakery District is pleased to present a reception, exhibition, and book signing with Patrick Tighe of Patrick Tighe Architecture, in collaboration with the Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design. The evening will be introduced and moderated by Stephen Phillips, AIA, PhD, Principal of Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS) and professor, director, Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo).
The event is FREE and Open to the Public. Please RSVP to calpolylametro@gmail.com. Free Parking is available at the Valet located on the corner of Helms Avenue and Venice Boulevard.
UPCOMING SCHEDULE:
Tuesday, March 14th: Tom Wiscombe of Tom Wiscombe Architecture
Tuesday, April 4th: B+U Architects
Thursday, April 20th: Heather Roberge of Murmur
About the Architect
Patrick Tighe FAIA, FAAR, is a Los Angeles architect and educator. The highly acclaimed namesake firm, Patrick Tighe Architecture, is committed to creating an authentic, contemporary architecture informed by technology, sustainability, and building innovation. Since its inception, the firm has produced a strong and diverse body of work. The firm has gained international recognition for their award winning projects and for their work in the affordable housing sector.
The firm has received over 50 design awards, has been published extensively and exhibited globally. Tighe was recently awarded the Pacific Design Center’s 2017 Star of Design. A monograph of the firms work, entitled “Buiding Dichotomy” was just released. Available on Amazon.

Patrick Tighe Architecture: Building Dichotomy
With Essays by Thom Mayne and Stephen Philips

From the publisher: This beautifully designed and illustrated monograph sets out Patrick Tighe’s innovative, diverse, and wide-ranging collection of contemporary work towards the post-digital, showing the reader a hyper- detailed analytical investigation of digital forms and their practices.

It sets out how his architecture has brought a return to the real in an attempt to rethink the language and practice of architecture. The book’s many inspiring and intricate drawings render clear the ideas that show the palpable energy and momentum that exists in this practice. In every instance, this firm embraces dichotomy, mining its potential to produce a more vital and consequential architecture.

The book’s stunning imagery and nuanced narratives tell the story of Tighe’s architecture across 35 projects spanning across the globe, to help establish how his work draws from and builds upon existing polarities to find resolution, and how tensions yield a more dynamic architecture. The work is multiple and varied: from the small-scale residential to the urban scale, from the United States to Europe to China to North Africa, from high-end villas for royalty to art installations to social housing projects.

This compelling collection of work follows the following five key themes: CRAFT (from the manufactured to the technological); MATERIAL (from the natural to the synthetic); EXPERIENCE (from the actual to the perceptual); GEOMETRY (from the simple to the complex); and METHOD (from the analog to the digital). This distinguished monograph also includes an incisive introduction by Patrick Tighe and is augmented by two essays by Thom Mayne and Stephen Phillips, who also provide clarity and insightful discourse on how Tighe’s work is continuously in transition and evolving, and how he’s rethinking and engaging in a discourse to defamiliarize the familiar.

Arcana Books Heads to Printed Matter's Los Angeles Art Book Fair!
2017-02-23 19:00 - 20:00 | MOCA, 152 N. Central Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
It’s that time of year again when you get to visit Arcana: Books on the Arts during the Printed Matter’s Los Angeles Art Book Fair at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Please check the event website for complete hours.
Beginning with a preview on Thursday, 2/23 through Sunday, 2/26, you will find them at Booth P05 with another enticing assortment of rarities including Pop and Conceptual artist books and catalogues, (maga)’zines, artworks + multiples, and an array of coveted posters, announcements, and ephemera. It’s a unique opportunity to shop many of the exquisite, inspiring, and rarely-seen items from the Arcana hidden-recesses and flat files.
In addition, they will be hosting two great book signings during the festivities! At Thursday night’s opening benefit, renowned gallerist, archivist, and editor Johan Kugelberg will be signing copies between 7:00 and 8:00 PM of his recent publication God Save Sex Pistols – the unseen and definitive visual history of the incendiary punk band. Presented by Arcana: Books on the Arts and Anthology Editions, both the Deluxe and swanky Ultra-Deluxe Anthology editions as well as the Rizzoli trade edition will be available.
On Saturday 2/25, New York-based photographer Aaron Stern will be joining Arcana at 3:00 PM to sign his hot-off-the-press We Live Behind The Moon Sometimes – an edition limited to fifty copies each containing a 5 x 7″ print. “Our memories are so often distorted to fit a narrative we create for ourselves. We replay memories the way we wish to remember and rebuild them to fit our own story. These images explore these themes as well the overarching theme in my work: love and loss, and how they relate to the landscape in our minds and around us.”

Cal Poly LA Metro Program Hosts Pita & Bloom Inside the Helms Design Center
2017-02-23 18:30 - 20:30 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
On Thursday, February 23 from 6:30 – 8:30pm, Helms Bakery District is pleased to present a reception, lecture, and discussion with Florencia Pita nd Jackilin Bloom of Pita and Bloom, in collaboration with the Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design. The evening will be introduced and moderated by Stephen Phillips, AIA, PhD, Principal of Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS) and professor, director, Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo).
The event is FREE and Open to the Public. Please RSVP to calpolylametro@gmail.com. Free Parking is available at the Valet located on the corner of Helms Avenue and Venice Boulevard.
UPCOMING SCHEDULE:
Saturday, February 25th: Patrick Tighe of Patrick Tighe Architecture
Tuesday, March 14th: Tom Wiscombe of Tom Wiscombe Architecture
Tuesday, April 4th: B+U Architects
Thursday, April 20th: Heather Roberge of Murmur
About the Architects
Pita & Bloom
Pita & Bloom is an architectural research and design collaborative based in Los Angeles. Started in 2010 by Florencia Pita and Jackilin Hah Bloom to test ideas on their shared notions of color, form, and material applications, Pita & Bloom aims to represent attitudes of contemporary culture while addressing each project’s specific challenges. Their projects to date include speculative cultural buildings, indoor and outdoor environments, social housing in Mexico, as well as objects to be viewed or used. In 2014, Pita & Bloom were called “two female visionaries” in Architecture Magazine’s Next Progressives, and they were selected as one of five finalists of the MoMA PS1 YAP competition. Recently they were selected as one of twelve teams to represent the U.S. Pavilion’s exhibit, The Architectural Imagination, at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale.

Artist Michael Kalish Exhibits "The Art of Finding Love" at H.D. Buttercup
2017-02-23 16:00 - 19:00 | H.D. Buttercup | Coco Republic, 3225 Helms Avenue, Los Angeles,, CA, 90034, United States
Michael Kalish, the renowned artist, is known for his massive public art installations, but it’s his newest interactive installation, “The Art of Finding Love”, that reflect his most moving work to date.
Beginning on Thursday, February 23 through February 26, “THE ART OF FINDING LOVE”, an interactive art sculpture by MICHAEL KALISH, will be exhibited inside the H.D. Buttercup showroom. Pop in to meet the artist on 2/23 from 4:00 to 7:00PM.
EXPERIENCE IT
Standing at 20 feet tall, you are invited to come and “find love” as you walk around this interactive sculpture until you find the one spot where the letters come together.
LIVE IT
Bring home a limited edition tabletop version of the interactive sculpture that functions as both a vase and a candle holder.

H.D. Buttercup Invites You to Brunch
2017-02-12 11:00 - 14:00 | H.D. Buttercup | Coco Republic, 3225 Helms Avenue, Los Angeles,, CA, 90034, United States
Free
On Sunday, February 12th from 11:00AM to 2:00PM, drop by H.D. Buttercup for brunch on them!
Inspired by top fashion trends and artistic designs, H.D. Buttercup is proud to present their most inventive furniture and rugs to date. Shop their new Spring 2017 Collection and enjoy an afternoon of art for the whole family. Cruise their showroom, create kites with your kids, and have some delicious bites with the entire H.D. Buttercup team.

Arcana Hosts a Book Signing and One-Day Installation with Tony Manzella and Tom Hall
2017-02-04 16:00 - 18:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
On Saturday, February 4th from 4:00 to 6:00PM, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts as they welcome their longtime friend Tony Manzella to celebrate his hot-off-the-web-press True Image – a thirty-two page tabloid format collection of color photographs. Designed by David Blankenship for Because, and published by Verb Editions, True Image is a striking representation of our unseen surroundings that excavates local landscapes.
For the event Los Angeles-based audio / video artist Tom Hall will create an installation featuring a unique generative algorithm that translates True Image’s complete image set into a hardware synthesis ambient soundtrack.

Woodbury College Hosts a Discussion on Womanhouse and WomEnhouse: A 20-Year Perspective on Feminism and Architecture
2017-02-03 18:00 - 20:00 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
45 years ago, from January 30 to February 28, 1972, Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro organized a feminist art installation and performance space called Womanhouse, located in an abandoned Victorian house near CalArts. 20 years ago a group of 24 female artists, architects, poets, art historians, and cultural theorists derived inspiration from Womanhouse in their design of a collaborative, multi-authored website that explores the politics of domesticity and gender relations through virtual “rooms” and conceptual domestic “spaces.” WomEnhouse proposed that, just as the domestic sphere is no longer separated from the public world of capital, so too the “feminine” (and feminism) must expand into a cyberpolitics that addresses the multivalent vicissitudes of identity formation and domesticity at the turn of the millennium.
Founding members of WomEnhouse, Annie Chu, Christina Magar, and Pat Morton, will discuss the past, present, and future of the ideological and symbolic conflation of women and houses through the formative lens of this groundbreaking website. With an estimated 750,000 people attending the Los Angeles Women’s March on January 21, 2017, and recent publications concerning the absence of women in architecture, questions surrounding female bodies in public space are as relevant to address on February 3, 2017 as they were on January 30, 1972. Come and participate in this timely discussion!
Seating is limited, so please RSVP here. Free Valet parking is available in the lot located at Venice Boulevard and Helms Avenue.
You can read more about the event here!https://woodbury.edu/womanhouse-and-womenhouse/

Arcana Hosts A Special Workshop With Christina Kim
2017-01-08 11:30 - 13:30 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
On Sunday, January 8th at 11:30AM, please join us at Arcana: Books on the Arts for a special workshop with Christina Kim to learn to make yo-yo puffs!
A yo-yo puff is a circle of fabric gathered around its edges into a “puff” used for embellishing quilts and clothing. First, a circle is drawn on a piece of cloth, cut out, and stitched with thread around the outside of the folded edge while turning a tiny hem as you go. The thread is pulled, gathering the fabric into a puff, then knotted. A traditional form of recycling thought to date back centuries, yo-yo or Suffolk puffs, as they are sometimes called in England, are best known in the United States for their use in Depression-era quilting practice.
Christina attempted her first yo-yo puffs creation, a coverlet, in high school by following instructions in an issue of Seventeen magazine. For a project in 2013 evoking the transformation of winter to spring, 10,000 puffs dip-dyed and hand-painted in subtle gradients of sky, snow, and cherry blossom colors were made for an 18 window installation in Tokyo. The technique was incorporated into the dosa Traveler 2013 collection.
$55.00 includes materials and a rare small-group workshop with Christina Kim.
Book your place in advance (by calling Whitney at 310-458-1499 or writing to books@arcanabooks.com), or “at the door” on Sunday morning.

Save A Little Room In Your Budget For After Holiday Sales
2016-12-26 | Helms Design District, 8800 Venice Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90034, United States
Well, it’s that time of year when our furniture stores move out last year’s goods and bring in their new product lines. For us interior design fanatics that means only one thing: Floor Sample Sale!
On Monday, December 26th Room & Board begins their once-a-year sale, with most of their furniture leaving to make way for the new floor set. Plus, the famous half-yearly sale at H.D. Buttercup begins, with up to 70% off the entire store. Harbour Outdoor is getting into the mix as well with their own half-yearly floor sample sale – enjoy 50 to 70% off selected items throughout the store, December 26 through January 15.
We love when the showrooms get a fresh makeover. Cheers to 2017!

Dandelion Ranch Pops Up On Helms Avenue
2016-12-22 12:00 - 16:00 | Helms Walk, 3270 Helms Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90034
On Thursday and Friday, December 22 – 23 from 12:00 – 4:00PM, our neighbors over at Dandelion Ranch are heading to Helms Avenue (across from Room & Board) with their holiday wreaths, boughs, and floral arrangements to help our busy guests get another errand crossed off their list. If you’re heading to a holiday party and need a hostess gift or just need to fancy up your own home for the holidays, stop by to see these ladies.

Arcana Books Hosts A Book Signing With Marc Appleton & Melba Levick
2016-12-18 16:00 - 18:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
On Sunday, December 18th from 4 to 6 PM, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for a book signing and celebration of Ranches: Home on the Range in California with author Marc Appleton and photographer Melba Levick.
The lure of the West has been strong in American history, representing the promise of beautiful, wild landscapes, broad vistas, clean air, and bright skies. On this magnificent land are the romantic and intriguing homes set in the idyllic landscapes of the great California ranches. From the one hundred and fifty year-old Rancho Camulos of “Ramona” fame to Jack London’s Beauty Ranch on the slopes of Sonoma Mountain to the working ranches of today, Ranches: Home on the Range in California presents an expression of a lifestyle steeped in self-sufficiency, love of the land, and lack of pretense. Arising from the tradition of the Mexican land-grant ranchos and the spread of Spanish Catholic missions, the ranches of California have a long and multifaceted history which is examined by author Marc Appleton – who himself can attest to the challenges and charms of ranch life. Located in dramatic landscapes of rolling hills, upon the sides of mountains, or in vast plains bordered by snow-capped mountains, the featured homes are exquisitely captured by renowned architectural photographer Melba Levick. At once a tribute to a historic form and a fading way of life, as well as a celebration of renewal, architectural beauty, and the romance of the West, this beautiful and authoritative book offers the reader an immersive experience of living on the land.

Arcana Books Hosts a Special Installation With Christina Kim
2016-12-16 18:00 - 20:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
Please join Arcana: Books on the Arts on Friday, December 16th from 6 to 8PM, to celebrate Christina Kim’s publication of dosa glossary along with a special month-long installation inside their store.
Christina Kim is a Los Angeles-based designer who is the co-founder of dosa. Textiles play a central role in her design practice, which ranges from housewares and clothing to temporary installations and architectural projects. This year, she has created a public art piece for the APAP5 art triennial in Anyang, Korea, a four-month installation at the Museo Textil de Oaxaca in Mexico, and collaborated with architect Peter Zumthor for the Venice Architecture Biennale. Her work is currently on display as part of the three-person “Scraps: Fashion, Textiles and Creative Reuse” exhibition at New York’s Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
dosa glossary is a beautiful one hundred and eight page gazette designed by Christina with Green Dragon Office of Los Angeles and printed by Sankei Shinbun in Tokyo. With one hundred and four entries, it is a “collection of techniques, textiles, people and organizations involved with dosa, past and present. Information is based on our notes from the field – insights gained working side by side with artisans, knowledge shared with us firsthand and reference material from books picked up along our travels.”
Christina will sign this limited edition piece at Arcana the night of the opening. Her accompanying site-specific installation is a visual and sometimes tactile reflection of the entries and concepts illustrated in the glossary that will be a magical and playful environment in which to discover dosa from a to z and the creative connections, both carefully considered and wondrously serendipitous, that it inspires.

Heidi Duckler Brings Dance and Snow To Helms Bakery District
2016-12-10 19:00 - 20:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
On Saturday, December 10 at 7 PM, Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre comes to Helms Bakery District to perform their one-time-only piece, Snowed Under, an exploration of what happens when forces of nature cause unexpected confrontation between disparate groups. Snowed Under marks the soft opening of our new, fully automated parking garage and illustrates the meeting of old and new technologies.
This performance will be held in the parking lot outside Arcana Books. Free Valet Parking is available at the lot on Venice Boulevard and Helms Avenue.
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Local Mercato and Book Signing at H.D. Buttercup
2016-12-06 17:00 - 22:00 | H.D. Buttercup | Coco Republic, 3225 Helms Avenue, Los Angeles,, CA, 90034, United States
On December 6th from 5 to 10 PM, stop into H.D. Buttercup as they host Local Mercato to benefit Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA. Artisans and designers will be on site with great gift ideas for your holiday shopping. Plus, Louesa Roebuck will be signing her beautiful new release: Foraged Flora.
Complimentary cocktails and light bites. A portion of the sales go to benefit Mattel Children’s Hospital.

Arcana Books Hosts A Discussion With Todd Hido
2016-12-03 17:00 - 19:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
On Saturday, December 3rd from 5 to 7 PM, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for a discussion and book signing of Todd Hido’s Intimate Distance: Twenty-Five Years of Photographs, a Chronological Album. Plus, enjoy a discussion between the photographer and Los Angeles based writer and essayist Katya Tylevich.

Helms Bakery Hosts "What The Frack Happened?"
2016-11-19 20:00 - 22:00 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Please join us on Saturday, November 19th at 8:00PM for What the Frack Happened? It’s hard to keep your heart afloat when the world is sinking, a timely, political, funny, physical theatre accompanied by live music, bollywood dancing, original songs, a mega tsunami and of course, love.
This interactive theatre presentation captures a moment in time when Climate Change arrives. As a result, a catastrophic tsunami has crushed the World and more importantly, the wedding of the year, leaving the guests to ponder their predicament while floating out to sea. Presented by the Citizen Change Theatre troupe.
Written & Directed by Gina Rose Powell & Brian Powell. Artistic Directors Brian Powell & Gina Rose Powell. Musical Director Jef Bek.
Starring Roger Carvalho, Ella Rose Charles, Rachel Murphy, Bryan Porter, Brian Powell, Rahul Rai, Issac Silva, and Libby Wahlmeier.
Tickets $10
www.citizenchangetheatre.com
Parking is located at the Free Valet in the lot on Helms Avenue and Venice Boulevard.

Arcana Hosts A Book Signing with Jeff Gold
2016-11-19 17:00 - 19:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
On Saturday, November 19th from 5:00 to 7:00PM, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for the celebration of the publication of Total Chaos: The Story Of The Stooges / As Told By Iggy Pop, meet their longtime pal Jeff Gold, quaff refreshments, and see an extraordinary one-day-only exhibition of rare Stooges memorabilia.
Author Jeff Gold and contributor Johan Kugelberg – noted music historians and collectors both – spent two days with Iggy Pop at his Miami home, sharing with him their extensive Stooges collection and interviewing the legendary singer. Pop’s candid, bare-all responses left them with the almost unbelievable tale of the band he founded as a teenager in Michigan nearly fifty years ago. It is the alternately tragic and triumphant story of a group who rose from youth, fell prey to drugs, alcohol, and music biz realities, collapsed, and nearly thirty years later reformed to record and tour once again to great acclaim. In 2010 The Stooges, credited with having invented punk rock, were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Their continuing influence can be felt today in the shape and sound of rock ‘n’ roll music.
Jeff Gold, Johan Kugelberg, and editor / contributor Jon Savage are among the most respected music authors and historians working today. Their efforts include numerous acclaimed and best-selling books and a Grammy Award. Published by Third Man Books, Total Chaos stands as a work for all fans of the band and rock music to draw inspiration from. Including an absolute treasure-trove of rare and unseen photographs, it is a metallic k.o. of only the best kind that shows AND tells the story of The Stooges.

Arcana Books Celebrates Ari Marcopoulos With A Double Book Signing
2016-11-18 18:00 - 20:00
Free
On Friday, November 18th from 6:00 to 8:00PM, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for a double book signing of Ari Marcopoulos: Not Yet and Rome – Malibu.
Newly published by Rizzoli, Not Yet is the definitive publication on the work of Ari Marcopoulos. For nearly four decades this renowned photographer whose explicit and startling visual intimacy bridging art and street photography has broken conventions with his candid and raw style. His images documenting subcultures such as skateboarding, snowboarding, and hip-hop; his tendencies to photograph stark landscapes, portraits of artists, and celebrities; and his extremely quiet and intimate pictures of his family and friends have all been hugely influential in helping to establish the visual rawness of youth culture, as well as the ephemeral aesthetic of contemporary photography. Ari Marcopoulos: Not Yet is an unprecedented journey through the artist’s celebrated career including both iconic and never-before-published photographs from the 1980s to now. Each chapter is edited by a different celebrated artist or family member close to Marcopoulos, and it is through these personal reflections on the artist’s work that this monograph takes on a deeper level of intimacy, drawing a more complete portrait of his oeuvre.
Rome – Malibu from Amsterdam’s Roma Publications presents photographs taken this year by Ari Marcopoulos in Rome and Malibu, and features a textual contribution by Kara Walker: “Rome. (…) Here, no image or structure is complete without symbolic framing devices, which also require framing devices, and so on. Ad infinitum. Malibu. Rockstars and fallen rocks and the edge, here is where the European conquest of the New World meets its fountain of youth endgame. We have reached the end, and it is vast.”

L.A. World Affairs Council On "Social Entrepreneurship: L.A. and Beyond"
2016-11-15 19:00 - 21:00 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Join us as we host an evening of networking and mingling with the Los Angeles World Affairs Council followed by a thoughtful discussion on innovative social entrepreneurship.
7:00-7:30: Reception
7:30-8:45: Panel Discussion
Moderator:
Jill Kickul, Professor of Clinical Social Enterprise at USC
Panelists:
Juan Lopez, Deputy of Technology and Innovation at the City Controller’s Office
Robert Egger, Founder/CEO of LA Kitchen
Courtney Copeland, Social Entrepreneur CEO/Founder of Happy Dot Box
Please rsvp for this event here or call 424-258-6160. Refreshments and appetizers will be served. Business casual and smart attire.
$20 Members
$30 Non-Members
Free parking is available in the lot at Helms Avenue and Venice Boulevard. Street parking is also available on Washington Boulevard.

Arcana Books Hosts A Shindig For The Ice Plant's 10th Anniversary
2016-11-12 17:00 - 19:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
On Saturday, November 12th from 5:00 to 7:00PM, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for The Ice Plant’s 10th Anniversary Party. The evening’s celebration will feature book signings for ED PANAR: Animals That Saw Me Volume Two and MIKE SLACK: Walking In Place 1 – New Orleans, with special appearances by many of The Ice Plant’s own authors and artists, including Ron Jude, Bettina Hubby, Michael Schmelling, Seth Lower, Antoine Wilson, and Melissa Catanese – plus Margaritas (Mike’s own mix) and the accordion stylings of Arcana’s Erin Schneider!
The Ice Plant began producing artist books in 2006, and has been publishing significant illustrated and photography books and other fine printed matter for the following decade. The dynamic duo behind the press – Tricia Gabriel and Mike Slack – would like to thank all their artists and loyal customers for making these ten years possible.
ED PANAR: Animals That Saw Me: Volume Two – The sequel – at last! Pairing a selection of new work and newly discovered gems from Ed Panar’s vast archive with an original essay on “being seen” by philosopher Timothy Morton, this volume digs deeper into the question: “Why do we assume that it’s only us who does the looking?”
MIKE SLACK: Walking in Place 1: New Orleans – Co-published in an edition of six hundred copies with Perimeter Editions, Melbourne, this is the first in Mike Slack’s new series of standalone volumes; each a pocket-sized ‘ambient travelogue’ of a particular geographic (or ‘psychogeographic’) location. This installment intermingles local fauna, architectural details, curious street cats, and urban ephemera, all skewed toward the sublime in the peculiar sunlight of New Orleans.

Donna Sternberg & Dancers Perform On Helms Walk
2016-11-05 12:00 - 15:00 | Helms Walk, 3270 Helms Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90034
Free
On Saturday, November 5th please join us for a special presentation by Donna Sternberg & Dancers of Bodies of Water, a site-specific performance that weaves together dance, music, spoken word, and art installation to examine the timely issue of water. Two performances of Bodies of Water, at 12 noon and again at 2PM, will take place in front of our over-sized water faucet fountain on Helms Walk, our pedestrian plaza on Helms Avenue between Washington and Venice Boulevards. Admission is free and open to the public.
Along with soundscape artist Rima Snyder and installation artist Moses Hacmon, Donna Sternberg & Dancers will explore the political, historical and aesthetic aspects of water. “Water, the giver of life, connects us to the most elemental aspects of the earth as well as to each other in a dance of co-existence.” Hacmon’s breathtaking, haunting collection of photographic images of water have been made into 18 large panels, 4 X 8 feet, that will be displayed as a backdrop to the dancers. Live musicians will perform music composed by Snyder, who has also created a recorded soundscape that includes poetry. This performance is made possible, in part, by a Culver City Performing Arts Grant.
About the Artists
Founded in 1985, Donna Sternberg & Dancers (DS&D) is a non-profit contemporary dance company that has premiered over 80 works, including 8 full evening-length performances. Discovery is our passion and we believe the act of discovery to be transformative. The company performs in site-specific locations such as parks, galleries, libraries and on the beach as well as in traditional theaters. DS&D has performed throughout California, and is the resident guest artist at Rancho La Puerta in Tecate, Mexico. It has been featured in publications such as Dance Magazine, Dance Spirit, Los Angeles Times, radio and television (PBS, City TV). The company has received funding from state and local governmental agencies, businesses and foundations. Jessica Abrams of exploredance.com states: “Donna Sternberg’s talent (is) a maker of dances as technically stunning as they are dramatically resonant. Sternberg’s dancers are incredible technicians, but it is their dramatic presence that (makes) them stellar performers.”
Rima Snyder is a composer, singer and audio editor. She has a BA in music from Pomona College and an MFA in music composition from the California Institute of the Arts. She has over 25 years of experience in the audio industry, including 12 years at National Public Radio as an audio engineer and assistant producer. Rima does audio post production for radio documentaries, music and arts features, and sound effects editing for film. She has composed many works for chorus and chamber ensembles.
Moses Hacmon, born in 1977 in Tel-Aviv, Israel, is an artist and architect. He studied cinematography and fine art at Avni Institute of Art and Design in Tel-Aviv. In 2006 Moses completed his B.Arch with AIA honors award, from SCI Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture). He has spent ten years studying water’s composition, properties, and movement, developing a photographic technique that captures the hidden life of this substance for the first time. This technique, named Faces of Water, exposes the movement of life within water and its infinite form. He has produced a book, Faces of Water that includes his breathtaking photos of water using his unique technique. www.facesofwater.com

Helms Bakery + Woodbury University Present "Do Good" Architecture & Engagement
2016-11-02 18:30 - 20:30 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
Please join us Wednesday, November 2nd from 6:30 to 8:30PM for a panel discussion with Woodbury University School of Architecture faculty members as they explore architecture and design as a socially and civically engaged endeavor.
Join Jeanine Centuori, Director, Agency for Civic Engagement at Woodbury University, Theresa Hwang, Executive Director, Department of Places, and Deborah Richmond, AIA for short presentations and a discussion moderated by Eric Olsen, Professor of Architecture, Woodbury University.
This event is FREE and open to the public. Light bites and refreshments. Free Valet parking is available at Helms Avenue and Venice Boulevard or take the Metro Expo line to the Culver City station, located one block west of the Helms Design Center.

Room & Board Hosts A Book Launch And Signing Party With Kirsten Grove
2016-10-29 13:00 - 15:00 | Room&Board, 3231 Helms Avenue, Culver City, CA, 90034
Free
On Saturday, October 29th from 1 to 3PM, Room & Board invites you to celebrate the launch of Simply Styling, the debut design book from stylist and blogger Kirsten Grove.
Simply Styling gives readers practical ideas on how to create a beautifully styled home by layering new products with inherited and collected pieces. As part of an exclusive book tour only in Room & Board stores, Kirsten will read excerpts and sign copies of her book, available for purchase during the event. Please rsvp here.

Room & Board Hosts An Evening Of Art In Support Of LA Family Housing
2016-10-26 19:00 - 21:00 | Room&Board, 3231 Helms Avenue, Culver City, CA, 90034
Free
In collaboration with Angeleno magazine, join Room & Board on Wednesday, October 26 from 7 to 9PM for a special art show featuring works by over 100 local, contemporary artists in support of LA Family Housing (LAFH). Dedicated to helping families and individuals transition out of homelessness and poverty, LAFH offers a range of housing opportunities enriched with supportive services.
From October 26 to November 6, designated artwork on display in the showroom will be available to purchase for $400 with 50% of proceeds going directly to LAFH.
Please rsvp to this event.
