Our friend got a new couch. She wanted a chaotic mix of color and pattern on her orange tweed couch. We headed downtown to find the fabric. Our first stop, as always, was The Loft. More pictures, and the resulting pillows, after the jump...
LA Store: The Loft (Michael Levine's Upstairs)
917 Maple Avenue
Los Angeles,
CA
90015
(213) 622-0507
Two flights above Michael Levine's home fabrics store, The Loft is just that: a spare, barren space with fabric folded on hangers or piled in boxes or jammed into shelves. We often strike out but on this day we hit paydirt. We came home with 15 pounds of fabric -- yep, it's priced by the pound here. $2 per pound, no cutting. Our haul included some material we'd seen downstairs, across the street or at other stores for many times the price we paid. We picked up some trim downstairs and dropped the fabric at her upholsterer. The results:
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The Loft (Michael Levine's Upstairs)
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917 Maple Avenue
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Love the sofa not the cushions, I'd keep the one on the extreme R and the little teal one( centre)
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I hate going to The Loft, but always do whenever I go to Michael Levine's. The Loft is so dirty and dusty- always have to take allergy meds beforehand!
Love the color of the couch and agree with the above comment regarding the pillows.
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The pillows remind me of the hard Christmas candy my grandmother kept on the coffee table at Christmas. Hard as rocks, I'm sure it was the same candy in the same bowl year after year. I soon learned that if you put it in your mouth, the reflex was to spit it back out. If you managed to suck on it for any legnth of time, or bite it, a slimely substance would ooze out of the center.....And that's what these pillows look like.
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Sometimes the Loft is worth the effort! Last year at the Loft, I scored a few yards of Eames 'small dots' fabric in cream/fawn, enough to upholster 4 dining chairs...
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