Design LA

Overview

Design Los Angeles is a collaborative design organization dedicated to connecting and promoting Los Angeles’ design districts, showrooms, galleries, makers, and creative community. The organization serves as a year-round resource for the local, national, and international design community, highlighting the city’s influence across interior design, furniture, decorative arts, architecture, and contemporary art.

Design Los Angeles grew from a collective effort involving the La Cienega Design Quarter and leaders from prominent Los Angeles showrooms, galleries, and design businesses. Led by Director Rebecca Birdwell, the organization brings together established names and emerging voices while increasing visibility for the people, businesses, and neighborhoods that shape the city’s design culture.

Through editorial content, showroom initiatives, and events including Legends, Design Los Angeles celebrates the history and continued evolution of California design while strengthening Los Angeles’ role as a destination for art, design, and innovation.

Areas Served

Design Los Angeles serves the greater Los Angeles design community, with a strong presence in West Hollywood and the historic La Cienega Design Quarter, home to many of the city’s leading interior design showrooms, galleries, and decorative arts resources.

Its network extends across Santa Monica, Culver City, Beverly Hills, Melrose, and other design destinations throughout Los Angeles and Southern California. Through year-round programming and digital resources, Design LA also connects these local businesses and creative communities with a national and international audience of designers, architects, collectors, buyers, editors, and other industry professionals.

Services

Design Los Angeles produces year-round resources that connect the design community with Los Angeles’ showrooms, galleries, makers, and creative businesses. This includes city-wide events and showroom programming, most notably Legends, as well as editorial features, sourcing resources, educational panels, professional conversations, and digital initiatives that encourage discovery across the city’s design districts.

The organization also creates opportunities for collaboration and greater visibility within the industry, connecting designers, architects, collectors, buyers, editors, and other professionals with Los Angeles-based talent and resources. Through partnerships, storytelling, and community programming, Design LA supports both established and emerging voices while making the city’s design community more accessible to audiences in Los Angeles and beyond.

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Featured

  • A person in glasses and a light blue shirt sits at a wooden table with large, ornate vases. Vintage chairs and classical statues surround them in an elegant, art-filled room. The person rests their head on one hand and looks thoughtfully at the camera.

    Q&A with Philip Stites

    A fixture of Los Angeles design for nearly four decades, the antiques dealer reflects on his early years at Therien, buying trips through Europe, the evolution of La Cienega, a lifetime of collecting, and his years helping lead Design Los Angeles.

  • A blue to green gradient background with white text: The Art of Atmosphere, March 1-5, 2027 in the center. Below is LA legends in a light serif font, with LA in gray and legends in white.

    Save the Date - Legends 2027

    Beyond the stage, "The Art of Atmosphere" unfolds across Los Angeles through curated tours, studio visits, intimate meals, and community gatherings that foster meaningful connection among designers, architects, makers, and collectors while celebrating how design is lived, shared, and discovered across the city.

  • A woman stands indoors by a round table with wildflowers in a vase and a lit candle. She wears a light blue sweater, green pants, a chunky necklace, and smiles softly. Cream-colored paneling and framed artwork decorate the background.

    Designer Ashley Lavonne

    With an architectural eye and a thoughtful approach to how people live, Ashley Lavonne creates interiors rooted in character and place, drawing on her path to design, a resistance to signature formulas, a reverence for historic homes, and the architectural diversity of Los Angeles.