Popular Art & Design Walk Set for Saturday, May 31, 2003 in the City of West Hollywood.News Editors WEST HOLLYWOOD West Hollywood A community of southern California northeast of Beverly Hills. It is mainly residential. Population: 36,600. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 8, 2003 The City of West Hollywood is hosting the Sixth Annual Art & Design Walk on Saturday, May 31, 2003 from 4:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. on the Avenues of Art & Design, the West Coast's premier destination for interior design, fine art galleries, showrooms, specialty shops and restaurants. The free event, held on the streets of Melrose Avenue Melrose Avenue is a well-known Los Angeles street that starts from Santa Monica Boulevard at the border between Beverly Hills and West Hollywood and ends at Hoover Street in Silver Lake. Melrose runs north of Beverly Boulevard and south of Santa Monica Boulevard. , Robertson and Beverly Boulevards in West Hollywood, will feature festivities fes·tiv·i·ty n. pl. fes·tiv·i·ties 1. A joyous feast, holiday, or celebration; a festival. 2. The pleasure, joy, and gaiety of a festival or celebration. 3. and the latest offerings in more than 70 individual fashion and design showrooms and art galleries. Special menus also will be offered in top restaurants such as Madeo, Il Piccolino, Petrossian Paris, Le Pain Quotidien Le Pain Quotidien, also known as Het Dagelijks Brood in Belgium, is a chain of internationally franchised Belgian bakeries and restaurants. The company was founded by Belgian chef Alain Coumont. and Hedley's. "The Annual Art & Design Walk is one of the premier events in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, and we are proud to be its home," said West Hollywood Mayor Jeffrey Prang. "It's a fun evening designed to showcase the City's design industry," he continued. More than 70 businesses in the area will donate gift packages valued between $13,000 and $18,000 that will be raffled off to ticket buyers, with proceeds benefiting educational programs of The Museum of Contemporary Art. The gift packages, worth an estimated $75,000 in total, will be displayed in participating stores. Books of 11 raffle tickets can be purchased for $50 before and during the event. For the third straight year, the Avenues of Art & Design is partnering with the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising for the premiere exhibition of "Chairing Styles," a display of 11 original chairs and 11 matching gowns designed respectively by FIDM's graduating interior design and fashion design students. A shuttle service will loop through the Avenues of Art & Design during the festivities, and the City of West Hollywood will waive residential permit parking from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. in permit parking zones one and two. The City will also waive parking meter enforcement on Beverly Boulevard, Melrose Avenue, Robertson Boulevard Robertson Boulevard is a street in Los Angeles. The northern part of the street in West Hollywood is a trendy tree-lined shopping district. Robertson is best known as a recent celebrity hangout. and any side streets in the Avenues of Art & Design from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. the day of the event. Architectural Digest is the official media sponsor of the Art & Design Walk. Other sponsors include the West Hollywood Convention & Visitors Bureau, Bristol Farms, Fiji Water, The Ligature Two or more typeface characters that are designed as a single unit (physically touch). Fi, ffi, ae and oe are common ligatures. and Coffee Bean coffee bean see sesbania. & Tea Leaf. The Avenues of Art & Design was established through a Business Improvement District in 1996. For more information, please call Alison Maxwell at (323) 848-6303. |
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