West Hollywood to Host DIEM: Design Intersects Everything Made Symposium on Friday, Nov. 14

“Decades of Design: 1948-2014” Retrospective Exhibit

Opens on Nov. 19 Celebrating Six Decades of

West Hollywood’s Rich Design History

 

 

WEST HOLLYWOOD, November 10, 2014 – The West Hollywood Design District’s third-annual DIEM: Design Intersects Everything Made symposium will bring together designers, architects, and art lovers for a day of design conversations, panels, and keynotes featuring leaders in their fields.

The 2014 DIEM symposium will take place on Friday, November 14, 2014 in West Hollywood’s Design District showrooms along Melrose Avenue and along Robertson and Beverly Boulevards. It is free and open to the public. The symposium is curated by design writer Mallery Roberts Morgan and by Frances Anderton, host of the KCRW radio program “DnA, Design and Architecture.”

In conjunction with the symposium, the West Hollywood Design District will present, for the first time, a retrospective exhibit to examine and celebrate six decades of West Hollywood’s rich design history. The retrospective “Decades of Design: 1948-2014,” curated by Gregory Firlotte and co-sponsored by the City of West Hollywood will feature graphics, photographs, and original products. It will open on Wednesday, November 19, 2014 and it will run through February 2015 at the West Hollywood Library, located at 625 N. San Vicente Boulevard.

West Hollywood Design District is a cultural destination for high-caliber design, art, fashion, dining, beauty and more. More than 200 global visionaries and creative leaders have chosen this walkable radius of Melrose Avenue, Beverly Boulevard, and Robertson Boulevard in the City of West Hollywood as their West Coast home. West Hollywood Design District, officially organized in 1996, has been a premier shopping institution for discerning taste and uninhibited creativity for decades.

For additional information about DIEM, please visit www.diemevent.com. For more information about the “Decades of Design: 1948-2014” retrospective exploring six decades of history, please visithttp://westhollywooddesigndistrict.com/events-page/decades-design.

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