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# A Golden Opportunity to See the Los Angeles Arts Community on Display
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/la-design-festival-2019/
- Published: 2019-06-19T11:00:41.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:08:24.000Z
- Description: The ninth annual LA Design Festival will feature talks, installations, exhibitions, and events hailing the city's legacy in architecture, fashion, graphics, industrial design, and other disciplines.
- Author: Matt Stromberg
- Tags: Art, California, Events, Los Angeles, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:34 (2019, 2020, part 1)

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MINI LIVING Urban Cabin at LA Design Festival 2018 (Photo by Monica Orozco, courtesy LA Design Festival)

With a design and architecture legacy that includes Frank Lloyd Wright, Arts & Crafts pioneers Greene & Greene, modernist masters Richard Neutra, Rudolf Schindler, and Charles & Ray Eames, as well as postmodern giants Frank Gehry and Morphosis, it’s no wonder that Los Angeles has one of the most vibrant contemporary design scenes in the nation. The [LA Design Festival](https://www.ladesignfestival.org/?ref=hyperallergic.com) celebrates the breadth of this community, highlighting homegrown architecture and interiors, graphics, industrial design, fashion, and more with four days of programs, exhibitions, talks, installations, and workshops. Headquartered at [The Row](https://www.rchstudios.com/projects/row-dtla/?ref=hyperallergic.com) — a complex of industrial buildings repurposed as shops and restaurants by LA-based film Rios Clementi Hale — the festival will also branch out to off-site events at studios, showrooms, and venues throughout the city.

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Design Block Party, LA Design Festival 2018 (photo by Chudo Nomi, courtesy LA Design Festival)

Highlights include a [talk on interventions at the US-Mexico border](https://www.ladesignfestival.org/2019/event/ambos-project?ref=hyperallergic.com) with AMBOS (Art Made Between Opposite Sides); [SomePeople’s single-person skygazing tower](https://www.ladesignfestival.org/2019/event/2019/6/20/some-people-x-skygazing-tower?ref=hyperallergic.com); Silas Munro of poly-mode speaking on [designing with diversity and community](https://www.ladesignfestival.org/2019/event/aiga-x-designing-public-action-with-communities?ref=hyperallergic.com) in mind; [Bob Dornberger’s surreal but functional objects](https://www.ladesignfestival.org/2019/event/specific-textures-by-bob-dornberger?ref=hyperallergic.com); and a [discussion of LA’s Green New Deal](https://www.ladesignfestival.org/2019/event/la-green-new-deal-x-lauren-saber?ref=hyperallergic.com) with Chief Sustainability Officer for the City of Los Angeles Lauren Faber and KCRW Design & Architecture host Frances Anderton. Find the complete [schedule of events here](https://www.ladesignfestival.org/schedule?ref=hyperallergic.com).

**When:** Thursday, June 20-Sunday, June 23  
**Where:** The Row DTLA (777 Alameda Street, Downtown, Los Angeles) and other venues across LA.

*More info at* [*LA Design Festival*](https://www.ladesignfestival.org/?ref=hyperallergic.com)*.*