Posts tagged Hollywood
This time last year, native New Yorker Greg Garry & Michael Jorris relocated from Soho, New York to LA for work.
Moving from a small NYC apartment to a spacious Park Labrea 2 bedroom has meant that Greg and Mike can spread out a bit, add to their record collection, have a guest room and for the first time garden! Their place is a combination of vintage finds, artwork that Greg has collected over the years, and pieces that Mike has made like the cameos shown below.
Greg & Mike at home – artwork from Greg’s vintage collection, eye painting by Mark Gagnon
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The bar – Absolutely fabulous!
Mike in front of his newest hobby sewing. He also makes macrame, builds stuff & gardens.
When Greg & Mike moved to LA they had 1 crate of records…
A corner of the dining room – at left a portrait of Jennifer Saunders of Ab Fab – at right cameos of Greg, Lucifer and Mike made by Mike.
Mike and Greg in front of the cameos created by Mike.
Greg in a Mr. Turk dinner jacket.
Mike, Grey and Lucifer
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This month I visited Sunnylands Estate and Visitor center. It was a memorable day, touring the estate, which was the former home of Leonore and Walter Annenberg, and hanging out in incredible Visitor’s center and gardens.
The first three images are from the Visitor’s Center garden, which was designed by Landscape Architect James Burnett who, “used Vincent van Gogh’s Olive Trees of 1889 as inspiration for this masterpiece view of the Center’s unique gardens.
Burnett carefully crafted nine acres of desert, designing 1.25 miles of walking paths that meander through more than 70 species of native and arid-adapted plants from North and South America, Africa, and the Mediterranean area. The gardens were carefully conceived to appear different in every season with variations that create a memorable sensory experience.
The bottom 6 images were taken in the garden of the Sunnyland’s estate. The estate was designed by architect  A. Quincy Jones, and is a jewel box of Hollywood Regency architecture, filled with their original period furnishings, artwork and many historical artifacts from their private and public lives.
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1. Monte Carlo – San Marino, California, 2. Tromp l’oeil on Fountain, 3. Mr. and Mrs. – Burbank, 4. Green Screen Set – Smashbox, Culver City, 5. Palm – Phoenix
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One of my favorite episodes of “Portlandia” is called “Is It Local ?”. In it, the incredibly irritating couple Peter and Nance, go to eat at a restaurant. After hearing the description of the “Heritage, Free Range, Organic and Local ” chicken they were about to order, they decide to go and check out the farm for themselves. I had an opportunity to do something a little bit like this, although I didn’t move to a farm or join a polygamous marriage as Peter and Nance did ( if you haven’t watched the episode yet, you need to ).
A few weeks back, I was at the Hollywood Farmer’s Market on a beautiful Sunday morning with my daughter Vivienne, and saw the most glorious flowers for sale at the Silver Lake Farm stand. Anemones, Ranuculus, Sweet Peas, etc. all beautifully arranged by color in glass canning jars and sold by the stem. Long story short, I reached out to owner Tara Kollo and asked if I could come visit her farm and photograph the flowers. I was thrilled, she said yes. So, last week Vivienne and I went and spent a few hours amongst the flowers, lady bugs and two of Tara’s lovely garden helpers. Check it out.
 
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DIANA KOENIGSBERG PHOTOGRAPHY 