CONTENTS Welcome to the new LA Mart Directory. We've added great new features, maps, and information to guide you through your visit to our updated facilities. Be sure to check lamartdirectory.com for the most up-to-date details about our showrooms, product lines, and calendar. 4 Calendar of Events 12 One-of-a-Kind Your guide to all of LA Mart's upcoming Senior Vice President & General Manager of LA Markets and Sample Sales Mart Frank Joens on being uniquely California 6 Our Team 16 DTLA Meet the players dedicated to making A look into Downtown LA's recent renaissance your LA Mart experience exceptional 18 Map 10 About the Cover Our custom map of sights, eateries, bars, and Find out more about DTLA's Art Deco roots hotels to complement your LA Mart visit 20 What is The REEF? Behind the new name of the LA Mart building 21 Floor Plans A visual reference for your convenience 33 Comprehensive Listings Detailed information for all showrooms 51 Product Categories Product listings and locations UPCOMING EVENTS Events are part of what makes the LA Mart experience so unique. We bring buyers, sellers and designers together on a daily basis, and provide them with a robust calendar of events and product introductions to fulfill business-build- ing needs year-round. Markets Sample Sales LA Mart’s Gift + Home + Design Center trade shows Gift + Home + Design Center Sample Sales. Take are uniquely “California.” Markets provide buyers home incredible deals from 40–70% off select furni- and designers with unprecedented access to shop ten ture, gift, home, and lifestyle lines during LA Mart’s thousand-plus world-class gift, home, furniture, and semi-annual sample sales. Admission is free and lifestyle lines, all in one lavish market. parking is just $15. Winter Market Gift + Home Sample Sales January 21–26, 2015 Jun. 4–5 and Nov. 5–6, 2015 (Wed–Mon) 9am–5pm Trade Only Spring Market March 29–31, 2015 Design Center Sample Sales (Sun–Tues) Mar. 30–Apr. 3 and Sept. 28–Oct. 2, 2015 9am–5pm Summer Market Open to the Public July 15–July 20, 2015 (Wed–Mon) Market Tuesdays Enjoy exclusive showroom specials, in-showroom Fall Market programming and complimentary parking* every September 27–28, 2015 Tuesday at LA Mart. Stock up and shop thousands of (Sun–Mon) nationally revered and custom manufactured product lines and on-trend merchandise from across all of the most popular gift, home décor, and lifestyle lines. Design Center Wednesdays LA Mart Design Center opens up to the public. On the last Wednesday of each month, the public is given access to the Design Center Showrooms on floors 1, 10 and 12 from 9am–5pm. Get access to *To qualify for complimentary parking, you must have a chic, premium home furnishings. Shop and save on set-appointment with a gift or design center showroom. floor samples and special orders! 4 Winter/Spring 2015 Access LA Mart showrooms anywhere, anytime, from any device. The all-new LA Mart Directory is accessible from any digital platform. Scan the code above or visit lamartdirectory.com on your mobile phone to easily search for showrooms, product lines and product cate- gories, to browse floor plans, and to read more about what’s happening here at LA Mart and Downtown Los Angeles. lamart.com 5 OUR TEAM Every person on Frank Joens our staff is com- Senior Vice President & General Manager mitted to pro- viding excellent customer service and putting on the very best show possible. Barbara Jones Leasing Coordinator James Wilson Leasing Manager 6 Winter/Spring 2015 Sarah Joy Lagunzad Marketing Director Rhea Harding Show Producer Mike Agakhanyan Operations Supervisor Jessi Parret Property & Events Operations Manager Mayra Alfaro Executive Office Administrator Robert Diaz Security & Concierge Supervisor lamart.com 77 A partnership between the gift and home industries to raise funds across the U.S. in support of HIV/AIDS service and education programs. Uniting the Industry Gift for Life was founded in 1992 by a small Gift for Life Activities include: group of industry professionals compelled to • The annual Party for Life, held during the respond to the tragic loss of talented friends winter edition of NY NOW and honoring key Against AIDS and colleagues to AIDS. industry leaders. Since then, our volunteer group has grown • Fundraising events in New York, Las Vegas, and gained significant visibility while raising Los Angeles, Seattle, and Dallas, as well as more than $5 million for life-saving HIV/AIDS the Gift & Home Trade Association’s annual service and education programs. golf outing. Today, Gift for Life is led by more than 30 • A Gift for Life Industry Achievement Award, industry volunteers from sales, manufacturing, presented each year during the Retailer trade media, and trade event organizations. Our Excellence Awards. mission remains vitally important; every 15 minutes someone in the U.S. is diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. • Partnership with the National Stationery Show to participate in AIDS Walk NY. Our most effective tool is fundraising on behalf of DIFFA, the Design Industries • Partnership marketing programs with Foundation Fighting AIDS. Every dollar UMBRA, Global Views and Kurt S. Adler Inc. raised by Gift for Life benefits DIFFA and its community services around the country. As a result of its fundraising efforts, Gift for Life helps to support great local causes such as Chicago’s Horizon Hospice, Los Angeles’ Project Angel Food, the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, the Heart of America Community Join Us! AIDS Partnership in Kansas City, and the National AIDS Housing Coalition. Donate. Participate. Make A Difference. We invite you to make a difference. Learn more. Participate. Donate. www.giftforlife.org www.GiftForLife.org GFL_LADirectory.indd 1 12/15/14 2:20 PM A partnership between the gift and home industries to raise funds across the U.S. in support of HIV/AIDS service and education programs. Uniting the Industry Gift for Life was founded in 1992 by a small Gift for Life Activities include: group of industry professionals compelled to • The annual Party for Life, held during the respond to the tragic loss of talented friends winter edition of NY NOW and honoring key Against AIDS and colleagues to AIDS. industry leaders. Since then, our volunteer group has grown • Fundraising events in New York, Las Vegas, and gained significant visibility while raising Los Angeles, Seattle, and Dallas, as well as more than $5 million for life-saving HIV/AIDS the Gift & Home Trade Association’s annual service and education programs. golf outing. Today, Gift for Life is led by more than 30 • A Gift for Life Industry Achievement Award, industry volunteers from sales, manufacturing, presented each year during the Retailer trade media, and trade event organizations. Our Excellence Awards. mission remains vitally important; every 15 minutes someone in the U.S. is diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. • Partnership with the National Stationery Show to participate in AIDS Walk NY. Our most effective tool is fundraising on behalf of DIFFA, the Design Industries • Partnership marketing programs with Foundation Fighting AIDS. Every dollar UMBRA, Global Views and Kurt S. Adler Inc. raised by Gift for Life benefits DIFFA and its community services around the country. As a result of its fundraising efforts, Gift for Life helps to support great local causes such as Chicago’s Horizon Hospice, Los Angeles’ Project Angel Food, the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, the Heart of America Community Join Us! AIDS Partnership in Kansas City, and the National AIDS Housing Coalition. Donate. Participate. Make A Difference. We invite you to make a difference. Learn more. Participate. Donate. www.giftforlife.org www.GiftForLife.org GFL_LADirectory.indd 1 12/15/14 2:20 PM ABOUT THE COVER The covers of the LA Mart Directories are dedications to the many unique elements of Los Angeles and the state of California that give them true character. This cycle, the LA Mart pays tribute to the expanse of Art Deco architecture that is so prominent in the Downtown area. First introduced to the world at classic movie- and theatre-go- LA Theater the Paris Exposition Internatio- ing era, when the city’s economy 615 S. Broadway nale des Arts Décoratifs et Indus- experienced an enormous boom, triels Modernes in 1925, the Art and when the popularity and Millenium Biltmore Hotel Deco style quickly surged into enormous success of Hollywood (The Biltmore Hotel) the plans of architects and onto caused the city to explode into a 506 S. Grand Avenue facades everywhere. worldwide phenomenon. Ninth and Broadway Building Bevis Hillier, an English art histo- The LA Conservancy offers Down- 850 S. Broadway rian, referred to Art Deco as “an town LA Art Deco Walking Tours assertively modern style [that] every Saturday morning at 10AM. Orpheum Theatre ran to symmetry rather than 842 S. Broadway asymmetry, and to the rectilin- For more information, or to make ear rather than the curvilinear; reservations visit laconservancy. Oviatt Building it responded to the demands of org or call (213) 430-4209. 617 S. Olive Street the machine and of new material [and] the requirements of mass Here are some standout exam- Pacific Mutual production.” ples of Art Deco architecture to Life Insurance Building visit during your stay in beautiful 523 W. 6th Street Classified by its intense colors, downtown Los Angeles: ornate decorative elements, and Southern California its disposition toward the geomet- Central Library Edison Company Building ric, LA’s Art Deco architecture was 630 W. 5th Street 601 W. 5th Street standout amongst the styles that were commonplace on the facades Fox Jewelry Plaza Sun Realty Building of many of pre-World War build- 608 S.