by Kate McIntyre
Posted on April 25, 2007
Los Angeles is best known for its huge film industry, but other creative arts thrive here as well. The performing arts, fine arts, architecture, music, and interior design are all important parts of the cultural life of the city. The Getty Museum, the LACMA, and the MOCA offer a wide range of classical through modern art. In West Hollywood, the Pacific Design Center has a 14-acre campus featuring 130 design showrooms. The largest chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers is located in Los Angeles. Los Angeles’s rich culture makes the city the perfect spot for an aspiring interior designer to get an education.
Los Angeles Museums Offer Stellar Interior Design
The Museum of Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles, features art from the 1940’s to the present. It has a collection of 5,000 works spread over three facilities: MOCA Grand Avenue, the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, and MOCA Pacific Design Center. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art describes itself as “the largest encyclopedic museum west of Chicago,” a claim that is easy to back up with its huge collection of 100,000 works. In 2006, the Getty Museum augmented its collection of European and American art with the opening of a museum at the Getty Villa. This second museum’s focus is on ancient art from Greece, Rome, and Etruria.
The Pacific Design Center a Decorator’s Haven
It is no coincidence that “Top Design,” Bravo Network’s reality show about interior designers, sends its contestants to the Pacific Design Center to shop for their rooms’ furnishings. The 30-year-old Center offers 2,100 product lines for interior designers to choose from, and it serves as a great source of inspiration for anyone who dreams of a career in interior decorating.
If you are considering attending an interior decorating school, you should carefully consider you options in Los Angeles. It is fertile ground for any course of study in interior decorating.
