Sustainable Design Event in Los Angeles

Tickets are $450 per person and $800 per couple.

Mairi Beautyman -- Interior Design, 8/8/2006

On August 19, the Decorative Arts Council at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) will present a unique fundraising event in Venice, California, intended to raise awareness of sustainable design. Held in the ecologically-designed home of architects Lawrence Scarpa and Angela Brooks in Venice, "Solar Umbrella” will feature a house tour, a sit-down dinner catered by Chinois on Main, and a lecture by Scarpa on the future of sustainable design.

Scarpa and Brooks, who work for the architecture, design, construction, and project management firm Pugh + Scarpa, are both dedicated to using renewable resources, alternative energy sources, and environmentally neutral materials in their buildings. The couple’s home is completely solar-powered, and as a result, inexpensive to run.

Co-chaired by interior designers Sarah Shetter and Alison Palevsky of Shetter Palevsky Interiors (SPI), the event is priced at $450 per person and $800 per couple. All proceeds will go towards acquiring decorative arts for the Museum's collection. “An object's effect on the environment will be a key factor in its importance to the collection,” note event organizers.

Attendees will take home a brochure listing green resources in the LA area ranging from building materials to organic pet food, and gift bags with environmentally friendly products.

For more information, call the Decorative Arts Council at 323-857-6528.