johncarrickxy: ?Celebrate The Wearable?A+D Museum

Posted by admin on Apr 9, 2012 in Events | 0 comments

(Los Angeles, CA ? March 12, 2012) The Architecture + Design Museum > Los Angeles (A+D) celebrated its eleventh year of cutting edge exhibitions and progressive architecture and design programming at its annual fundraiser on March 10^th, tripling ticket sales and raising significantly more, through tickets and the one-of-a-kind auction items, compared to their last fundraiser.

Titled ?CELEBRATE: The Wearable,? the evening featured a runway event with live and silent auction of 48 wearable artworks provided by top talent from the realms of architecture, design, fashion, graphic, product, industrial and the visual arts.? The live auction portion of the evening was emceed by the vibrantly dressed duo of Los Angeles humorist/author Charles Phoenix and KCRW?s ?DnA? host Frances Anderton.

??CELEBRATE 2012: The Wearable? surpassed our expectations!? I applaud the architecture and design community for their tremendous talent and support.? We just might have to do this again,? stated A+D Museum Executive Director Tibbie Dunbar.

The evening hosted over 600 people, including wearable creators Trina Turk, Steven Ehrlich, Fitzsu?s Su Sazama and Fitz, artist Chase, Gulla Jonsdottir, Suzanne Tick, Deborah Sussman and Paul Prejza, David Hertz, Mehrdad Yazdani, Eric Corey Freed, Louise Green, Erla Dogg Ingialdsdottir, Andre Miripolsky, Rebecca Niederlander, Alex Lamis (Robert A.M. Stern), Cameron McNall (Electroland) and more.

Architecture and design enthusiasts who attended included musician Moby, Sami Hayek, COSMIT CEO Carlo Guglielmi and GM Marco Sabetta of Saloni del Mobile in Milan, and Mark Stahl (owner of Stahl House, Case Study House #22.? Board Member Cynthia Kanner attended and hosted several HBO executives, including Michael Lombardo, President, HBO Programming.

Los Angeles Artist Collective creatively projected museum images all evening, as well as a live feed of the runway show, onto the giant exterior walls of both the A+D Museum and the East-facing wall of the Petersen Museum, creating a neighborhood light show and place to view the runway for those who couldn?t squeeze into the room.? Meanwhile, PAMA and IZZE served up A+D-themed cocktails alongside Scott Roeb?s beef and chicken sliders and vegetable skewers, while DJ Raul Campos rocked the house.

Sponsors for ?CELEBRATE: THE WEARABLE? included HBO, Richard Frinier Collection, Room & Board, Mohawk Group, and Los Angeles Art Collective as Gold Patrons.? Silver Patrons include All Coast Construction, Bentley Prince Street, Latitude 33, and Olson Visual. Our Bronze Patrons include CF Stinson, City National Bank, Davidson Painting, Designguide.com, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Escalante Architects, Fentress Architects, Gensler, Hathaway Dinwiddie, Matt Construction, J.H. Minassian, Billy Lehman & Dana Goodyear, SILESTONE by Cosentino, and Michael P. Johnson Fine Woods. James Perse Furniture Collection, Boffi and Sideshow Collectibles are our Special Patrons. Room & Board provided event design services and furnishings. Bang & Olufsen Pasadena provided their in-kind services.? The bar was compliments of PAMA and IZZE.

For additional information on the A+D Museum please visit www.aplusd.org or contact Sarah Lane at 323-932-9393.

LIST OF WEARABLE ARTISTS:? www.aplusd.org/celebrate2012, or below.

Photos courtesy of ?Julie Du Brow of dubroWORKS | 310-821-2463 | julie@dubroworks.com