Downtown Los Angeles is a 40-minute drive on the 101 Freeway. Burbank Airport is half an hour.
In Pasadena, The Gamble House was in a fire evacuation zone and its custodians are trying to safeguard its future. In Altadena, only concrete walls are left from the former home of novelist Zane Grey.
The design marketplace, open for the weekend at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, hosted a preview party Friday.