The Spring Equinox was celebrated this past weekend with the third
Parachute Market, themed "Let There Be Light." The seasonally inspired design fair and marketplace is conceptualized by
Coryander Friend, a production designer living in Laurel Canyon. With her high priestess-like ability to orchestrate just-about-anything combined with a keen interior design eye, she brings together over fifty designers, makers and artists for a 2-day weekend in Downtown Los Angeles. This edition featured site-specific light installations, edibles, collectible books, furniture, one-of-a-kind objects, music curation by
FYF Fest's Phil Hoelting and Parachute's continuing partner of vintage fashions,
A Current Affair.
There is definitely a kinetic creative energy happening in LA that runs a thread through everyone here. Inspired by all the incredible folks who do the making, I turned my camera on the artists rather than just their product.
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Lara is musician
El May with the gift of creating insanely beautiful
paintings. She concocts a mixture of minerals specific to each gem that she illustrates, thus giving it's glorious dimension and depth while remaining airy and dreamy.
Wofum's Annabel Inganni with her daughter | The colorful array of prints created by Annabel are incorporated into home and office goods in collaboration with her husband, Brendan Sowersby of
100xbtr, a furniture and product design company
The always awesome Linde of
Just Say Native | Insanely ethereal textiles of Anton Nazarko who works with
Raquel Allegra | Bari Zipperstein's radical pottery line,
BZippy and Company
Melissa Tolar of
A Question of Eagles | Their work encompasses ceramics, jewelry and unique handmade quilts by Melissa's mom, Marcia | delicate enamel ring bowls by Melissa
The ceramic and wooden kitchen good and home goods by
Knotwork is a collaboration between Linda Hsiao, an industrial and eyewear designer and Kagan Taylor, woodworker and co-founder of
KnowhowShop, a design / build firm
Specialty Dry Goods is Edie Kahula Pereira. She treads lightly on this earth with her creations: bags, wallets and the sweetest potholders you've ever seen (!) with a focus on utilizing discarded surplus materials, linen & alpaca yarns, natural vegetal tanned hide and 100% USA grown organic wool
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And the food, oh the deliciousness that was there!
Sí Paletas serves up ice pops in delectable combinations as avocado/chocolate and cucumber/melon/mint | the gentlemen of
Horse Thief BBQ | almost too beautiful to eat, fresh from the ocean creations by
The Ceviche Project (original photo here)
Lauda (right) of Sno Con Amor creates an updated twist on Raspados - Mexican Snow Cones
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And ever-present was the space-specific light art installations by:
Designer and architect Johanna Grawunder is based in Milan, Italy and San Francisco, CA with work that spans from large-scale public installations to limited edition furniture
Tahiti Perhson who creates
large scale, intricate hand-cut paper installation
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Like always, I wish I was able to capture all of the goodness there:
.... Too much chatting, not enough picture-taking!
Big hugs, congratulations and thank you to Coryander and all the amazing folks who create the radness that fills the Parachute Market.
