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Flower show with a twist at the Huntington
L.A. at HomeThe Pasadena Garden Club's flower show at the Huntington this weekend is just too unusual not to mention here: All entries in the show are required to interpret scientific ideas from the rare materials featured in the Huntington’s Dibner Hall for the... -
Furniture-making unplugged
![There is an edge to hand-cut wood, a sharp line on curves that you can see with your eyes and feel with your fingers. Master craftsman Patrice Pinaquy calls it "crispness." You can witness it in Louis XIV furniture, its fleur-de-lis and sunbursts perfected more than 300 years ago, when carpenters made their tools by hand, when pulled bow saws left irregular strokes on wood grain, when no matter how fine the gold leafing, imperfection was inevitable -- the signature of the anonymous builder.](http://www.latimes.com/media/alternatethumbnails/story/2009-04/46152194-10113002.jpg "There is an edge to hand-cut wood, a sharp line on curves that you can see with your eyes and feel with your fingers. Master craftsman Patrice Pinaquy calls it "crispness.\" You can witness it in Louis XIV furniture, its fleur-de-lis and sunbursts perfected more than 300 years ago, when carpenters made their tools by hand, when pulled bow saws left irregular strokes on wood grain, when no matter how fine the gold leafing, imperfection was inevitable -- the signature of the anonymous builder.")
There is an edge to hand-cut wood, a sharp line on curves that you can see with your eyes and feel with your fingers. Master craftsman Patrice Pinaquy calls it "crispness." You can witness it in Louis XIV furniture, its fleur-de-lis and sunbursts...Tags: Brad Pitt, Pasadena (Los Angeles, California), Furniture, France, Catherine Zeta-Jones
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Datebook
APRIL 11 Garden design: Landscape architect Heather Lenkin lectures on "Designing Great Gardens." 3 to 5 p.m. Descanso Gardens, 1418 Descanso Drive, La Cañada Flintridge. $35 to $40. Registration: (818) 949-7980. Wildflower show: Rancho Santa Ana...Tags: Santa Monica, Metal and Mineral, Tour Operations Industry, Hancock Park, Botany
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It's garden tour time!
![South Coast chapter of the California Native Plant Society presents its 15th annual spring garden tour led by landscape consultants and designers Ric Dykzeul and Tony Baker. 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. $20 to $25. Reservations: (310) 629-0500, <a href="http://www.sccnps.org">www.sccnps.org</a>.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-06/45965566-11160316.jpg "South Coast chapter of the California Native Plant Society presents its 15th annual spring garden tour led by landscape consultants and designers Ric Dykzeul and Tony Baker. 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. $20 to $25. Reservations: (310) 629-0500, <a href="http://www.sccnps.org\">www.sccnps.org</a>.")
South Coast chapter of the California Native Plant Society presents its 15th annual spring garden tour led by landscape consultants and designers Ric Dykzeul and Tony Baker. 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. $20 to $25. Reservations: (310) 629-0500, www.sccnps.org....Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Tour Operations Industry, Travel, Botany, Orange County (California)
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Home and garden tours and seminars
MARCH 28 Cymbidium show: San Gabriel Valley branch of the Cymbidiun Society of America hosts an orchid show with potting demonstrations and an orchid sale. 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. March 28 and 29. Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden, 301 N....Tags: Tour Operations Industry, Botany, Garden Products, Los Angeles, Colleges and Universities
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Visit L.A. area museums -- free
It's been said that there's no such thing as a free lunch -- but a free feast for the eyes is within reach at an L.A.-area museum.
The tally hereabout, not counting special exhibitions, can get as high as the $20 weekend adult admission at the Huntington...Tags: Adults, Los Angeles, Boston Bruins, University of Southern California, Pasadena (Los Angeles, California)
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Talks on flowers, gardens and L.A. architecture
MARCH 14 Native plants: Bruce Pavlik, professor of biology at Mills College and author of "The California Deserts: An Ecological Rediscovery," lectures on "Ecological Histories of the Desert." 10 to 11:30 a.m. $20 to $30. That is followed by Louise...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Botany, Travel, Architecture, Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden
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Martin Eli Weil dies at 68; restoration architect and founding member of the L.A. Conservancy
Martin Eli Weil, a leading restoration architect and a past president of the Los Angeles Conservancy who was involved in the restoration of landmark structures such as the El Capitan Theatre and the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Storer House in the...Tags: Heart Attack, University of Iowa, West Adams, University of Pennsylvania, Architecture
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It was Huntington's master plan
Special to The TimesWHEN THE current mortgage crisis ends, someone is going to make big bucks. Probably developers. They'll buy up houses at bargain prices, tear them down, put in a subdivision and start hawking mortgages. The L.A. investor's rule: It's never about the...Tags: Mortgages, Architecture, Los Angeles, Pasadena (Los Angeles, California), Maryland
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Elise Mudd Marvin dies at 79; founding trustee of Pitzer College, philanthropist
Elise Mudd Marvin, a founding trustee of Pitzer College who also was a generous donor to the Los Angeles Philharmonic and other leading cultural institutions in Southern California, has died. She was 79. Marvin died Jan. 13 at her home in Pasadena, her...Tags: Harvey Mudd College, Awards and Prizes, Euclid, Los Angeles, Colleges and Universities
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Home and garden events throughout Southern California
JAN. 31 Tiffany lecture: Margaret K. Hofer, curator of decorative arts at the New York Historical Society, will discuss the role women played in the design and manufacture of Tiffany Studios' leaded glass lamps. 7:30 p.m. Art Center College of Design,...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Travel, Botany, Architecture, Silver Lake (Los Angeles, California)
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Huntington Library's Free Day will require RSVP
Times Staff WriterThe Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino is moving to reduce the crowds on its popular monthly Free Day. In September, it will start requiring ticket reservations. Free Day, which began in 1996, allows visitors to see...
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