• Salomón Huerta on Art and Altadena

    Salomón Huerta has been a fixture in the Los Angeles art community for decades. A native of the infamous Ramona Gardens housing projects in Boyle Heights, he took art classes at Pasadena City College and earned a bachelor’s in fine arts from ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena and a master’s at UCLA. He’s had…

Los Angeles Griffith Observatory

“I promise you, I will never take anything for granted in this beautiful state ever again.”
–Thomas J. Story, Sunset Staff Photographer

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    Amber Lewis on Rebuilding the California Home

    Amber Lewis is an interior designer and author who grew up in Malibu. Known for her laid-back, approachable, and definitively California style, she is the founder of her eponymous firm and owner of Shoppe Amber Interiors, which has an online store and brick-and-mortar boutiques, one of which was lost in the Palisades Fire. She and…

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    A Bay Area Kitchen Gets a Preppy East Coast Makeover

    A home’s design doesn’t necessarily have to match its location. We’ve seen Tudors in the heart of a city, modern homes in rural surroundings, and a Zen-like sanctuary situated above a busy area of Los Angeles. Anything goes as long as it’s done tastefully, like the kitchen in this five-bedroom, four-and-a-half-bathroom Hillsborough, California, home. Forget…