
Hi! I would love to post a question for the AT readers. I'm designing an office and I'm looking to find someone in Los Angeles who can do furniture reproduction at a reasonable price. I'm looking for both modern and antique knock-offs or reproduction in the style of Kelly Wearstler - would love to find someone who can re-create the pieces she used at the Viceroy Hotel in Santa Monica. I got a lead on her furniture guy but when I got the quotes they were sky high - $3000/chair! Am I looking for the impossible? Or can someone really get their champagne on a beer budget? -Frustrated in LA
[Top photo from Escapes : The Viceroy Hotel]
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Your best bet is to buy vintage and refinish them for an updated look. This look can be achieved cheaply since most of the exaggerated forms are straight out of 70's furniture.
Otherwise, Vaughan/Benz is a hospitality design company in Los Angeles.
http://www.vaughanbenz.com/
Personally, I think this particular hotel look is kind of tired and cheap looking in a home setting. It's way too trendy and looks like it will be going out fast.
I think Comicgeek is right. Kelly's Hollywood Regency "spin" at the Viceroy is really restrained color palettes and lots of white, black and gray. You can do that with lots of styles and just enough Hollywood Regency pieces. I'd keep things a bit more eclectic to avoid looking cliched.
Turquoise does custom vintage furniture in the HR spirit. The prices are pretty reasonable in comparison to what you were quoted above. http://www.turquoise-la.com
Its time has passed. Even KW is on to something else.
Check with the guys at Dragonette on La Cienega, they have been manufacturing their own designs which are very similar.
I would just ask the Viceroy if you can buy them.
They are probably ready to ditch this look and move on to something else.
room service will do it, for a reasonable price, i understand, or they have what you are looking for.
http://www.roomservicestore.com/index.html
Perhaps it's good "Frustrated" wants to pursue the style she loves, whether it's "in style" or not. Her office may be filled with an eclectic mix of other items that may differentiate the space from the popular style people are judging (love to see some photos!). Because something tells me that although this aesthetic is passing in the public's eye, it will likely come back considering Hollywood Regency is based upon LA's aesthetic history
I love the style, trendy or not. There is a place in Van Nuys called "Hotel Surplus Liquidators". The place is a dump, but it sells some great stuff. Their inventory comes from hotels who are re-decorating or closing and looking to offload their wares. They have a ton of chairs there, and are not opposed to a good haggle. I walked out with 2 tables for half of what they asked on the tag. Great lines and terrible fabric.
I think buying chairs from here and recovering them in great fabric would achieve the look you want. As a bonus, the furniture is older and thus made better.
I love Hollywood Regency. To me, it's one of those timeless styles that - when well executed - never looks dated.
I've found that going vintage and recovering is far more cost effective than comissioning new pieces. One can also frequently choose standard traditional silhouettes such as Chippendale and by selecting certain fabrics and wood finishes, it becomes HW Regency.
Example - Imagine a chair such as this which you could find on Craigslist:
http://www.ethanallen.com/product?productId=1140&categoryId=8206
...in this fabric...
http://www.fschumacher.com/search/ProductDetail.aspx?sku=174410
...and you have instant Hollywood Regency.
Thank you for all of the comments! Thanks ECdn, I enjoyed looking at the offerings from TurquoiseLA. Julieleanne, appreciate your comment - went to Hotel Surplus Liquidators today and loved it - what a great find. Although they didn't have what I'm looking for today - I'm going to keep them on my list. To all the negative nancy's - of course I'm not going to copy the Viceroy - as a fellow AT member don't you think I have my own unique taste? What I do love that KW does is that she finds great antique pieces and has them upholstered in great modern fabrics - love it. bepsf - you totally get it. Please keep the comments coming - I'm learning so much! ;) - Katie