Video Walk-Through: Beverly Hills Library by Johnson Favaro

Interior Design Staff -- Interior Design, 3/1/2013 2:00:00 AM

The Beverly Hills Library by Johnson Favaro. Photo by Zale Rchard Rubins.


Steve Johnson and Jim Favaro of Johnson Favaro take Interior Design inside the freshly renovated Beverly Hills Library in Los Angeles, a 1960s-era building with a 1990 addition by Charles Moore. The architects brought improved circulation and increased interior daylight to the 75,000-square-foot library, which offers one of the best fine arts collections in the region. Here, Johnson and Favaro talk about the large-scale renovation of the children and teen areas and main lobby, which includes whimsical touches like jumbo-sized reprints of book pages, beautiful script translated into carpet, and a hopscotch-style alphabet—fuel for imagination that children will surely remember long after they've graduated from fairy tales to textbooks.