YOUR PLACE NO NEED TO SNEAK PACIFIC DESIGN CENTER EXHIBITS OPEN TO ALL.Always wished you could sneak into the Pacific Design Center where interior designers do their shopping? Now's your chance. Beginning March 30, the Pacific Design Center will open its doors to the public for a series of global design exhibits, starting with ``Ateliers d'Art de France,'' a display of work by 10 hot young designers who reinvent everyday objects with a decidedly French accent. Other exhibitions include ``Do create = do + Droog Design'' from the Netherlands; ``A Way of Living for the Millennium'' from Italy; ``Superflat,'' a continuing exhibit featuring Japanese painting Japanese painting (絵画 Kaiga) , photography, works on paper, fashion and sculpture; The Hida Pacific Collection, featuring Japanese contemporary furniture never before seen in the U.S.; and ``Profiles in History,'' a film costume exhibit including gowns worn by Joan Bennett in ``Son of Monte Cristo'' and Joan Fontaine Joan Fontaine (born October 22 1917) is an Academy Award-winning American actress, who became an American citizen in April 1943. Early life She was born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland in ``The Emperor Waltz.'' Exhibition closing dates vary, but most continue through May. Admission to ``Superflat'' is $3; other exhibits are free. The Pacific Design Center is at 8687 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood West Hollywood A community of southern California northeast of Beverly Hills. It is mainly residential. Population: 36,600. . For information on these and other exhibits, call (310) 657-0800 or visit www.p-d-c.com. - Barbara De Witt De Witt, uninc. town (1990 pop. 8,244), Onondaga co., central N.Y., a residential suburb of Syracuse. ``The more red pigment in a leaf the less sun it needs. Think of the begonia begonia (bĭgōn`yə), any plant of the large genus Begonia and common name for the family Begoniaceae, mostly succulent perennial herbs of the American tropics cultivated elsewhere as bedding or pot plants and easily propagated by : red-leafed plants love shade; green-leafed can take more sun.'' - 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, Garden Club GARDEN TOUR Lilac love-in: Descanso Gardens' Spring Festival of Flowers will be in full bloom full bloom the stage of a crop when two-thirds of the plants are in flower; the crop is mature. on March 31 when the public is invited to take a fragrant tour through its one-acre lilac grove with more than 400 lilac shrubs. Beginning at 9 a.m. lilac experts such as Robert Charles Martin will present a symposium on how to grow and care for the flowers as well as include them in your landscape. There's a cake-break and then lilac curator Rudy Schaffer will conduct the lilac grove tours at noon and again at 3:30 p.m. The Spring Festival of Flowers continues through May 13. Descanso Gardens is located at 1418 Descanso Drive, La Canada Flintridge. For more information, call (818) 952-440l. - Barbara De Witt THE SURVEY SAYS... Procrastinator pro·cras·ti·nate v. pro·cras·ti·nat·ed, pro·cras·ti·nat·ing, pro·cras·ti·nates v.intr. To put off doing something, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness. v.tr. challenge: Give up your remote, get work done around the house. That's the theory Ace Hardware is testing after the company's national survey of 1,000 adults found that 41 percent of procrastinators admitted to watching TV instead of doing household projects. To prove the theory, Ace is offering an incentive: Send your remote control (postmarked no later than March 31) to Ace and you could be one of 199 people to win a $25 Ace Hardware gift certificate. To enter, send your remote along with a three-by-five card with your name, address and phone number to Ace Hardware ``Remote Remedy,'' 676 N. St. Clair, 10th floor, Chicago, IL 60611. Yes, your remote will be returned (though Ace is not responsible for damage). For more information, go to www.AceHardware.com. - Daily News CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1 -- color) no caption (design art) (2 -- color) no caption (Manikin manikin /man·i·kin/ (man´i-kin) a model to illustrate anatomy or on which to practice surgical or other manipulations. manikin (man´ikin), n wearing a gold and pink gown) (3 -- color) no caption (Lilac flowers) |
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