Art and design have long been kissing cousins, but their relationship has become increasingly intimate in the past few years. Exhibit A: the new Maharam showroom in West Hollywood’s Pacific Design Center. Located just a few blocks from the textilemaker’s existing street-front location on Melrose Avenue, the PDC space was designed by architect Neil Logan in collaboration with English conceptual artist Liam Gillick, one of the original YBAs (the Young British Artists who rose to prominence in the 1990s)

Amid all the finery of the building’s more traditional showrooms, Maharam’s was conceived as a purposefully minimalist gesture—a luminous box framed with a glass façade, broad white-painted walls and ceiling, pristine work/display tables, and a seamless poured-resin floor in pale gray. Within the immaculate shell, Gillick placed two installations of ten-foot-high fins that recall the brise-soleils of Le Corbusier and Richard Neutra. Punctuating the artful setup is Orange_Lemon_Chex, a Pop-flavored wall covering by artists Wade Guyton and Kelly Walker from the Maharam Digital Projects collection.

Open to the public and to the trade, 8687 Melrose Avenue, Suite G-152, Los Angeles,** maharamom

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