Shibui Designs Pop-Up Space at 945 Chung King Road in Los Angeles, in the Chung-King Plaza.
Chung-King Plaza is located on the west side of Hill Street, between College and Bernard Streets.

Saturday, March 13, 2010

5 - 6 pm Panel Discussion

6 - 9 pm "Modern Outdoor Living" open during the Chinatown Art Walk

Shibui Designs’s RANDALL WILSON, educator and designer, moderates a show-and-tell panel discussion celebrating fresh takes on outdoor living as realized by five Makers and their ingenious objects. Lean and clean, the pieces explore the garden as source concept by extending a home's living space to the great outdoors.

Here's a look at the panel participants:

TOM SANDONATO's kitHAUS. Featured in Dwell, Metropolitan Home, and the New York Times, kitHAUS reinvents the traditional backyard room as an elegant, module flexible enough to become yoga studio, office or greenhouse. Modular in design, these pre-fab, aluminum-framed structures can be assembled in a matter of days to produce an elegant modernist addition or entire dwelling with minimal fuss.

Modern Outdoor Designs furniture maker BRET HIMMEL creates extraordinary pieces that transform backyards into al fresco living spaces. The brand is defined by its high style, clean-lined simplicity and use of environmentally conscious materials. Modern Outdoor is equally suited for residential as well as commercial spaces and has been used in several upscale installations such as Intercontinental Hotels, Penn State and Luma South Condominiums (one of the first LEED Gold multi-family housing projects in Los Angeles).

Environmental designer, JASON BURTON uses re-claimed wood as the foundation for his new garden bench, transforming lumber from ordinary shipping skids into unique pieces. His Repurposed Pallet Shelving transforms lumber from ordinary shipping skids into extraordinary wall-mounted pieces that serve simultaneously as sculptural objects and functional storage units.

Landscape architect DAVID FLETCHER and designer DANIEL PHILLIPS present Cone-ucopia. Their urban teaching tool enables kids to plant seeds into paper drinking cones and sell the resulting edibles to fund future classroom projects.

Also, see a sneak peek at decorative pavers, energy-efficient trellis systems and other garden-inspired pieces crafted by students and faculty from Otis College of Art and Design and Art Center College of Design.