A+R is British ex-pat Andy Griffith, a former film editor and self-avowed design junkie, and Rose Apodaca, a pop culture and style journalist.
In late 2005, we opened our tiny shop in the heart of Los Angeles' creative enclave known as Silverlake, keen on sharing our excitement for great design with anyone who would listen.
At A+R, we strive to bring together an uncommon and exclusive product mix that emphasizes good and thoughtful modern design.
We love talking about the designers we find locally and from afar, because it only goes to show that this brilliant and bold community is not so much distinguished by geographic or cultural boundaries but bound by the pursuit of aesthetics and innovative ideas.
From stemware to stuffed toys, books to baubles, body care to bright lights, the constant is design that charms, functions and inspires.
How does this make A+R different from the other great design shops in the universe?
We obsessively seek out the newest products, aiming to offer them first. We cherry pick the best from the best manufacturers. We don't settle for product simply available through domestic distributors: Challenges be damned, we import from anywhere in the world. We never sell anything we haven't personally handled. We love everything we sell.
In a sound bite: Global design. Edited.
That's A+R.
We hope you find things you've been looking for all your lives, and stuff you didn't know you needed. And, whether you're a designer or enthusiast like us, if you come across anything you believe fits our world, please let us know.
Hello A+R, Very congenial merchandizing. I would like to share some of our accessory designs with you. ADJEKTIVES+MODDIF IERS. http:adjektives.c om Greetz from SF, -FzS
What happens in Vegas doesn’t necessarily stay there. Not if you were within shot of the photographers who came to America’s City of Lights in the last five decades. Some of the best results are the subject of “The Show on Vegas,” which opened Thursday night with a bash at M+B gallery in West Hollywood.
Slim Aarons, Todd Eberle, Curt Gunther, Ed Ruscha, Bruce Weber, Dennis Hopper and Bernard of Hollywood are among the three dozen photographers represented in the exhibit, an extension of The Book on Vegas, a luscious 300-page tome packed with 226 images curated by Roman Alonso and Lisa Eisner. Published by their art book imprint Greybull Press late last year, and timed to the city’s centennial, it’s a visual compendium of intimate moments and better-known milestones: William Claxton catching Marlene Dietrich mid smoky cigarette and backstage at the Sands Hotel in 1958, and, three decades later, Richard Misrach’s melancholic sunset scene of a deserted drive-in theater.
For style junkies, there’s plenty to OD on: Douglas Kirkland’s 1969 pic of Ann-Margaret, clad in a stars-and-stripes bathing suit and black go-go boots, barreling down the desert highway on a chopper; Bruce Weber’s peek at Siegfried & Roy’s Cavalliesque world; Martin Parr’s excruciating close up of long red talons tapping a slot machine edge from 1998; even Jeff Burton’s cropped snap from 2000 of the one of Libarace’s ostentatious cars.
As for Thursday’s opening fete, it was a typical Roman and Lisa affair of high and low, uptown and downtown (not unlike their Vegas pics). Chicago burlesque star Michelle L’amour performed her elegant schtick (do check her out). HBO prez Colin Callendar and his cool wife Elizabeth (in theme clad in a gold lame shift) crossed paths with the always extraordinarily decked former pimp known as The Bishop (love the chartreuse trousers!). Julie Newmar, the best Catwoman of them all, looked very Marlene Dietrich, come to think of it. Also there were Kelly Lynch and hubbie Mitch Glazer, Brigette Romanek, Peter Getty, Gina Gershon, Resurrection’s Mark Haddawy and designer Henry Duarte.
What happens in Vegas doesn’t necessarily stay there. Not if you were within shot of the photographers who came to America’s City of Lights in the last five decades. Some of the best results are the subject of “The Show on Vegas,” which opened Thursday night with a bash at M+B gallery in West Hollywood.
Slim Aarons, Todd Eberle, Curt Gunther, Ed Ruscha, Bruce Weber, Dennis Hopper and Bernard of Hollywood are among the three dozen photographers represented in the exhibit, an extension of The Book on Vegas, a luscious 300-page tome packed with 226 images curated by Roman Alonso and Lisa Eisner. Published by their art book imprint Greybull Press late last year, and timed to the city’s centennial, it’s a visual compendium of intimate moments and better-known milestones: William Claxton catching Marlene Dietrich mid smoky cigarette and backstage at the Sands Hotel in 1958, and, three decades later, Richard Misrach’s melancholic sunset scene of a deserted drive-in theater.
For style junkies, there’s plenty to OD on: Douglas Kirkland’s 1969 pic of Ann-Margaret, clad in a stars-and-stripes bathing suit and black go-go boots, barreling down the desert highway on a chopper; Bruce Weber’s peek at Siegfried & Roy’s Cavalliesque world; Martin Parr’s excruciating close up of long red talons tapping a slot machine edge from 1998; even Jeff Burton’s cropped snap from 2000 of the one of Libarace’s ostentatious cars.
As for Thursday’s opening fete, it was a typical Roman and Lisa affair of high and low, uptown and downtown (not unlike their Vegas pics). Chicago burlesque star Michelle L’amour performed her elegant schtick (do check her out). HBO prez Colin Callendar and his cool wife Elizabeth (in theme clad in a gold lame shift) crossed paths with the always extraordinarily decked former pimp known as The Bishop (love the chartreuse trousers!). Julie Newmar, the best Catwoman of them all, looked very Marlene Dietrich, come to think of it. Also there were Kelly Lynch and hubbie Mitch Glazer, Brigette Romanek, Peter Getty, Gina Gershon, Resurrection’s Mark Haddawy and designer Henry Duarte.
