SPORTS
November 6, 2011 | By Ben Bolch
There was a roll call, a familiar voice over the public address system and even the fan with blue hair heckling opponents when they shot free throws. Good thing UCLA also remembered to pack Joshua Smith and Reeves Nelson for the start of its season-long show. The interior duo helped the Bruins overcome a mostly ragged performance during an 80-72 exhibition victory over Cal State San Bernardino on Sunday at Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario. Smith's 26 points and seven rebounds were complemented by Nelson's 16 points, 10 rebounds and one commandment to his teammates.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
November 2, 2011
Harry Lawenda Interior design firm's creative force Harry Lawenda, 87, an interior designer who was the creative force behind the influential Kneedler Fauchere design firm founded by his late wife, Dorothy Kneedler Lawenda, died at his Los Angeles home on Thursday, one day before his 88th birthday. He had non-Hodgkins lymphoma, according to company spokeswoman Susan Ducey. A New York native, Lawenda moved to San Francisco in 1949 after studying at the Parsons design school in New York.
BUSINESS
October 9, 2011
Sited on a ridge top with city-to-ocean views, this Craftsman-exterior home was designed for its previous owner, actor James Woods. Inside, architect Lise Claiborne Matthews created the element of surprise with light-filled, contemporary interiors and bands of inlaid mahogany on the walls that wrap around corners, climb, dip, narrow and broaden from room to room. Location: 1520 Gilcrest Drive, Beverly Hills 90210 Asking price: $9,995,000 Previously sold: In 2002 for $5 million Year built: 1996 House size: Three bedrooms, four bathrooms Lot size: Nearly an acre Features: Stone and oak floors, five fireplaces, media room, library, gym, swimming pool, ponds, mature sycamores and pines About the area: In the first half of the year, 131 single-family homes sold in the 90210 ZIP Code at a median price of $2,726,000, according to DataQuick.
HOME & GARDEN
July 30, 2011 | By Alexandria Abramian-Mott, Special to the Los Angeles Times
Shifting reading habits and a brutal recession may have caused the demise of Domino, Metropolitan Home and House & Garden, not to mention smaller publications such as Oprah Winfrey's O at Home and Martha Stewart's Blueprint, but a surprising phenomenon has been developing elsewhere: While shelter magazines fold in the States, a new generation of interior design titles has taken off in Brazil, Russia and, most aggressively, China. We're not talking digital click-throughs, the online decorating guides such as Lonny that have sprung up here, sometimes staffed by writers and editors who were laid off during the industry meltdown.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
January 5, 2011
Miriam Seegar Whelan Actress became an interior designer Miriam Seegar Whelan, 103, an actress from the early days of talking films who was married to director Tim Whelan, died Sunday of age-related causes at her home in Pasadena, said her daughter-in-law Harriet Whelan. After her acting career ended, Whelan became an interior designer in Los Angeles. She was born Sept. 1, 1907, in Greentown, Ind., where she and her sisters enjoyed play-acting as children.
HOME & GARDEN
October 23, 2010
Mixing old and new For Lucinda and David Schiff's renovation of a 1927 house, interior designer Sasha Emerson refurbished vintage furniture and had new pieces made. Some of her strategies for fixing and mixing the old and the new: Shopping: Before buying something at a flea market or vintage store, imagine where it will go. Ask two key questions: Does the piece in question integrate with what's already there? And can it fit in several places in the house if the first location does not work out?