Studio Visit: At Work with Two Downtown LA Pioneers - Remodelista
Photography by Jessica Commingore for Remodelista. Dosa fans will be familiar with this loft space: It’s where designer Christina Kim holds her annual Dosa sample sale in LA. The rest of the year, it serves as the offices of Lindon Schultz, architect, furniture maker, and downtown LA pioneer. Lindon explains that when he moved in, “the space was a typical garment factory with a rabbit warren of unpermitted offices on one side and storage racks on the other. There was also an awkward dropped ceiling.” He meticulously pared down the interior, stripped the windows, and refinished the concrete floor to create an open, light-filled loft. Bookshelves in front of a private office area. A salvaged workbench (Lindon is an avid dumpster diver). The desert shrub and chaparral on display around the studio are all local finds. Chay’s desk and studio occupy one end of the loft. A low table by Lindon and butterfly chairs. A Heather Levine mobile hangs above one of the Live Work Tables that Lindon designed with Chay. Chay followed Lindon’s lead in keeping her studio space simple: “My house and the store look very different from the loft. But the loft is so lovely on it’s own that it doesn’t need much.” A view from Chay’s workspace of Lindon’s office area with a partitioned room at the end with a daybed. It’s really pretty in the summer with the raking afternoon light and the surprisingly stout breeze. Chay’s clothing line: silk and linen jumpsuits, dresses, wrap skirts, and tunics (she also occasionally offers vintage dresses). A tea devotee, Chay spent a year working with a tea atelier in Central California to come up with the Chay Tea Collection, Five Varietals–Breakfast, Rose, Cocoa Rooibos, Digestive, and Bedtime–that “support you through the cycle of a day.” Space mates Lindon Schultz and Chay Wike.