03.04.2002
"WALL COVERINGS" BY AMY GOLDWASSER
“I’m not big on pretty stuff,” said Barbara Bestor, chairwoman of the new graduate program at the Woodbury University School of Architecture in Los Angeles, and the architect whose 2006 book, “Bohemian Modern,” identified a certain brand of eccentric modernism instantly recognizable to anyone who has spent time in Southern California. “I’m into graphic or funny.”
For Ms. Bestor, that means using color and pattern on an architectural scale: the facade of her office, which sits among a strip of car repair shops in the Silver Lake section of Los Angeles, is marked by a 100-foot installation of art and text, and she often commissions wall decals and murals for clients’ homes. She describes it as “domesticating the urban environment — kind of like wallpaper for the city.”
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