May 12, 2023 By Jessica Ritz Architectural Digest
Add another event to the list of industry gatherings making a robust return in 2023. While the La Cienega Design Quarter’s Legends festival made a soft return last year, the West Hollywood-based consortium of 45 design businesses just wrapped a robust agenda of talks, parties, and new product launches as part of its 13th edition. (Not to mention, the Quarter has been extended by one-square mile to add Melrose Avenue showrooms west of the Pacific Design Center and San Vicente to the fun.) Our favorite event? The window display reveal, a marquee Legends tradition in which dozens of interior design firms reimagine the La Cienega Design Quarter’s showroom windows.
Thirty-two design firms from across the country unveiled their inspired interior ensembles this week. “This [year’s] theme, the Fashion of Home, lends itself to allowing all the window designers to be creative,” says Elizabeth Kaplan, an LCDQ volunteer board member and CEO of Paul Ferrante, the Melrose Place lighting specialist and antique dealer that helped plant the seeds of what became the LCDQ. “It doesn’t pigeonhole them into any one design aesthetic, and it’s really open to interpretation.”
With his window display for The Rug Company, the always sharp-witted and fantastical Ken Fulk says “Fulk it,” which translates to neoclassical motifs, disco balls, and of course, his pups emblazoned in neon pink atop a butterfly design from the rug maker.