"As life has sped up, it’s even more of a special place. There’s Sea Ranch time—two days there feels like five days somewhere else." - Shev Rush of Placewares

"When I was growing up, I remember going with my family to look at a house outside of Myrtle Beach and it was a totally Sea Ranch-inspired vision: it was shingle, it involved the same volumes, and it was in a pine forest. When I [eventually] got to the Sea Ranch I was like, Oh my god, this is it." - Shev Rush, Placewares and Willam Turnbull, Jr.'s Hines House

"Curated by Kevin Lane of Placewares Projects, Ladd & Kelsey: Noble Places will showcase period photos of the firm’s projects taken by Julius Shulman, Ezra Stoller, and Wayne Thom, as well as ephemera such as vintage design magazines and movie posters for films featuring the architects’ visually striking work." - KCRW, Design and Architecture

"...the art center is...launching a new exhibit on the architectural partners, who emerged from the influential California Modernist movement pioneered at USC in the post-WWII era.

Curated by Kevin Lane of Placewares Projects, Ladd & Kelsey: Noble Places will showcase period photos of the firm’s projects taken by Julius Shulman, Ezra Stoller, and Wayne Thom, as well as ephemera such as vintage design magazines and movie posters for films featuring the architects’ visually striking work, which includes the Norton Simon Museum and the master plan of the CalArts campus." - Curbed Los Angeles

Read Curbed LA's article. 

Also, be sure to check out Palos Verdes Art Center's robust programming and curriculum. They've been going strong supporting the arts for 80-years.

Many thanks to ARCHITECT magazine and Catherine Johnson of Design, Bitches for including us in the magazine’s holiday gift guide

"But there is one store worth dropping into for the modern design lover: Placewares. Design enthusiasts and Placewares owners, Shev Rush and Kevin Lane, have stocked the store guided by their keen eye for vintage pieces, timeless modern wares from the likes of Iittala, Marimekko, Heller, Chemex, Alessi, Normann Copenhagen, Bodum, and Chilewich, alongside some choice contemporary designs."

Placewares Gallery Announces ‘Paul Ryan: The Halprin Workshops’ and ‘Lawrence Halprin: Six Works’

Two exhibitions opening November 23 feature Lawrence Halprin, noted artist and pioneering landscape architect of The Sea Ranch

Placewares Gallery, an art gallery exhibiting contemporary artists, designers, and craftspeople, as well as works related to architecture and design, today announced the opening of two new exhibitions focused on the early years of The Sea Ranch, the celebrated designed community founded in 1965 on the Sonoma Coast. “Paul Ryan: The Halprin Workshops” and “Lawrence Halprin: Six Works” will open on November 23. The exhibitions are the result of a collaboration with Los Angeles-based gallery Edward Cella Art & Architecture.

"Trina Turk and Jonathan Skow (Mr. Turk) hosted a celebration marking the collaboration between internationally known and collected artist Jim Isermann, a Palm Springs resident, and Placewares, a design house and shop celebrating its 40th birthday next year and owned by longtime friends (and former Palm Springs neighbors), Kevin Lane and Shev Rush." - Palm Springs LIfe

Trina Turk and Jonathan Skow (aka Mr Turk) will host a celebration at the Trina Turk / Mr Turk Palm Springs store on Saturday, October 14 from 4-6pm for the collaboration between internationally known and collected artistJim Isermann, a Palm Springs resident, andPlacewares, a design house and shop celebrating its 40th birthday next year and owned by Turk and Skow’s longtime friends (and former Palm Springs neighbors), Kevin Lane and Shev Rush.

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