OUR FAVORITES FROM LA DESIGN WEEKEND 2026

This year’s LA Design Weekend stretched across five days in early October, and we spent our downtime away from our own open studio exploring what everyone else was making. Here are some of our favorite moments.

ORCA x MERCHANT — OBJECTS IN THE GARDEN

ORCA, Molly Sedlack's landscape design studio, presented Objects in the Garden at her showroom on Figueroa. The exhibition was curated by Merchant Modern and featured artists including Rachel Shillander, Jennelle Fong, and Iris Delphine. Works in ceramics, sculpture, and contemporary art were integrated throughout the space and garden. It really was a stunning collaboration.

WAVERLY LINENS — TABLE MANNERS

Waverly Linens hosted Table Manners, a group art show that also asked guests to paint on naturally dyed fabrics. There was playfulness in the space, and we especially loved textile artist and host Izzy's chain-stitch embroidered bib, table setting, and textile collage still lifes.

LA SETS A TABLE AT RAVENHILL STUDIO

Thirty-five makers gathered at Ravenhill in Glassell Park for this group show curated by Cathy Callahan and Chris & Chelito of Thought Forms Studio. We contributed our sculptures woven by SWOPA in Ghana, and they held giant paper flowers made by Buddy System. Cathy "originally conceived Los Angeles Sets a Table as a way to connect and build community", and beyond the magic of the combined work in that beautiful space, the community will carry forward.

THE HAAS BROTHERS

The Haas Brothers hosted the LAD/W3 Friends and Family Party at their North Hollywood studio, which kicked off LA Design Weekend. The energy was high, with the brothers' oversized and otherworldly lighting towering over everyone.