May 2017
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It’s ‘A Wonderful Life’ at English Tudor Showcase Pasadena Showcase House of Design house and garden tour will continue through May 21. Some 23 designers have remodeled the interior and gardens of this year’s showcase, an English Tudor built in 1916. The architectural firm of Marston & Van Pelt designed the home at a cost of $25,000 for actor Samuel Hinds and his wife. The nearly 7,500 square-foot main residence features six bedrooms and four bathrooms and two halfbaths. The two-acre property includes a pool and badminton court, more than 100 trees and a faux bois bridge. Mr. Hinds played Peter Bailey, the father of James Stewart’s character and the founder of Bailey Building and Loan, in the classic holiday film, “It’s
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a Wonderful Life” (1946). The house also had a role in “La La Land.” Proceeds from the 53rd annual event benefit the Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts (PSHA), which provides music and other programs in the community. Tickets cost between $35-$45 and can be ordered at PasadenaShowcase. org or 714-442-3872. Parking and complimentary shuttle service is at the Rose Bowl, Parking Lot 1.
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Monarch Carpet, Drapery, Upholstery turns 80 The carpeting and floor business has changed a lot since Monarch opened 80 years ago as a rug and drapery cleaning business. Carpet sales came along a bit later, and, the rest, — wood, vinyl, laminate, ceramic and natural fiber flooring — later still. Today, there’s even free inhouse design consultation. Wood flooring has grown in popularity, as have all hard surfaces, which account for 60 percent of company business, says co-owner Joel Friedman. Friedman along with Jeff Gertsman took over the business from their fathers, Sanford Rosenberg and Moe Gertsman, who founded Monarch in 1938. Friedman came aboard in 1962. Gertsman joined in 1974. Under their tenure, the company has expanded 20 times, to a 25,000-square foot facility that buzzes ‘round the
clock. Its showrooms display selections of carpeting from 35 mills plus other types of flooring. Clients have included the Music Center and residents citywide, including Hancock Park, Windsor Square, Larchmont and the Miracle Mile. Customers can purchase a hall runner or an entire commercial flooring.
“We are one of the largest fabrication of area rugs nationwide,” says Joel. In 1946, Monarch Carpet, Drapery & Upholstery relocated to its present site at 3007 W. Temple St. The company has won several awards over the years, with the HGTV Home by SHAW as its most recent. Visit monarchcarpet.com.
Petersen Museum ‘radical exterior’ design awarded
since 1959
Just a year after opening its $90 million remodel, the Petersen Automotive Museum has been honored by the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design as one of the most significant building projects in America owing to its radical exterior design by architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox. The American Architecture Award, which is presented in conjunction with The European CentER for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and Metropolitan Arts Press, has been given out every year since 1994, and will be presented at a gala ceremony to be held at the Orlando Museum of Art.
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Gene Kohn and Trent Tesch of Kohn Pedersen Fox took what had been a gray concrete box originally designed as a mid-century department store and transformed it into a visual anchor of the Miracle Mile neighborhood utilizing a façade of flowing stainless steel ribbons over a corrugated red shell, museum officials said. “To even be considered for such an award is an honor,” said Terry Karges, executive director of the Petersen Automotive Museum. “Coincidentally, this award was created in 1994 – the same year Robert E. Petersen founded our museum in a repurposed department store.”
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