LAMILL: Silver Lake

Just opened on January 11th, LAMILL (LA MILL) is a gourmet café from the Alhambra based beanery which supplies everyone from Katsuya to Bastide.

Designed after a mid-century, upscale clubhouse (vintage club chairs, 1800s brass chandelier), this gourmet café offers Silverlakeians a cool new place to have a cup-o'-joe, or more.

The company is open about their coffee obssesion. LAMILL is committed to sourcing the Earth in an effort to produce the world’s best cup of coffee. They only use coffee beans that are grown between the Tropics of Capricorn and Cancer. For those of you, who slept through geography, "imagine a wide band around the Earth’s equator. Known as the Bean Belt, it boasts rich soil and mild temperatures with plenty of rain and shaded sun - an ideal climate for growing coffee." Also interesting, their espresso's are served at an exact 165 degrees.

LAMILL opens at 6am with pastries, and starts slinging full breakfast at 8.

LAMILL
1636 Silverlake Blvd, Silverlake
323.663.444

LAMILLCOFFEE.COM

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SYI: check out speacialty drink "Coffee and a Cigarette" ... the drink features tobacco-infused whipped cream!

LAMILL: Silver Lake

Just opened on January 11th, LAMILL (LA MILL) is a gourmet café from the Alhambra based beanery which supplies everyone from Katsuya to Bastide.

Designed after a mid-century, upscale clubhouse (vintage club chairs, 1800s brass chandelier), this gourmet café offers Silverlakeians a cool new place to have a cup-o'-joe, or more.

The company is open about their coffee obssesion. LAMILL is committed to sourcing the Earth in an effort to produce the world’s best cup of coffee. They only use coffee beans that are grown between the Tropics of Capricorn and Cancer. For those of you, who slept through geography, "imagine a wide band around the Earth’s equator. Known as the Bean Belt, it boasts rich soil and mild temperatures with plenty of rain and shaded sun - an ideal climate for growing coffee." Also interesting, their espresso's are served at an exact 165 degrees.

LAMILL opens at 6am with pastries, and starts slinging full breakfast at 8.

LAMILL
1636 Silverlake Blvd, Silverlake
323.663.444

LAMILLCOFFEE.COM

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SYI: check out speacialty drink "Coffee and a Cigarette" ... the drink features tobacco-infused whipped cream!

Design On A Dime

"MISS K" by PHILIPPE STARCK for FLOS



"LAMPAN" TABLE LAMP by IKEA

$325 or $5 Bucks? Tough decision, huh.

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Design On A Dime

"MISS K" by PHILIPPE STARCK for FLOS



"LAMPAN" TABLE LAMP by IKEA

$325 or $5 Bucks? Tough decision, huh.

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Persepolis

Acclaimed author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi turns her series of graphic novels into a full-length animated film, “Persepolis,” a charming coming-of-age tale about the brutal subject of growing up in Iran during the Islamic revolution.

Check out the movie trailer @: http://www.sonypictures.com/classics/persepolis/

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SYI: The subtitles are in french

Persepolis

Acclaimed author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi turns her series of graphic novels into a full-length animated film, “Persepolis,” a charming coming-of-age tale about the brutal subject of growing up in Iran during the Islamic revolution.

Check out the movie trailer @: http://www.sonypictures.com/classics/persepolis/

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SYI: The subtitles are in french

Tom Dixon's Final Frontier

What I like about Tom Dixon is that he creates modern spaces that break the vicious cycle of repetition. Lately, it seems like every contemporary designer is recreating the same room (over and over again). If you close your eyes, I know that you'll see it... a couple Barcelona chairs, pendant lamp, zebra rug, and boring artisan tchotchkes. Don't get me wrong, I like a good homage, but I also believe that designers can get lazy when they look to the past instead of creating the future (especially in modern design).

Tom's designs reflect what modern is today...respectful of the past & inspired by the future.

In July 2007, Tom Dixon launched a US division of the Brit-based company.

Tom Dixon says, "For us, the United States is really the final frontier ...a mysterious and exciting continent with a rediscovered interest in contemporary design - we feel the time is now right for an innovative British brand to feel relevant and welcome here."

Current L.A. exhibition: Twentieth showroom @ 8057 Beverly Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90048

Visit www.tomdixon.net to see his entire collection of furniture and lighting, and to see past and current design projects.

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Quick Note: Photos taken @ ABC Home & Carpet in NYC, during my recent trip last month.