Los Angeles: The Wallpaper* Guide | Wallpaper*

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published 20 February 2025

Let Wallpaper* guide you through the worlds of art, design and architecture in Los Angeles - and discover where to go and what to see when you travel.

Los Angeles' hills and downtown streets are home to some of the world's most impressive architectural marvels. Roam the galleries of the Arts District, eat in some of West Hollywood's finest restaurants or stay in a design bolthole along PCH's glistening shoreline. Whatever it is that takes you to La La Land, follow the Wallpaper* edit of what to see and do.

Fancy a matcha-beer cocktail? Visit this dashing new LA restaurant

Café 2001 channels the spirit of an American diner with the flow of a European bistro and the artistry of Japanese cuisine

Alba Los Angeles is an Italian vacation disguised as a restaurant

This buzzy NYC import brings a slice of la dolce vita to West Hollywood

You’ll soon be able to get a sneak peek inside Peter Zumthor’s LACMA expansion

But you’ll still have to wait another year for the grand opening

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Art, architecture and travel in Los Angeles

Fancy a matcha-beer cocktail? Visit this dashing new LA restaurant

Los Angeles businesses regroup after the 2025 fires

Los Angeles art exhibitions: the best shows to see in May 2025

‘Fall Guy’ director David Leitch takes us inside his breathtaking Los Angeles home

The Lighthouse draws on Bauhaus principles to create a new-era workspace campus

With glowing honeycomb-shaped booths, this futuristic Japanese restaurant is ramen heaven

Tour the best contemporary tea houses around the world

At Linden Los Angeles, classic New York comfort food gets its due

The new Los Angeles restaurants to book now

Unlike the gloriously grotesque imagery in his films, Yorgos Lanthimos’ photographs are quietly beautiful

Alba Los Angeles is an Italian vacation disguised as a restaurant

Basic.Space launches its first IRL shopping event – in an empty West Hollywood mall

Heritage and conservation after the fires: what’s next for Los Angeles?

At Bar Etoile, Scandi-chic meets leisurely Los Angeles

Cowboys and Queens: Jane Hilton's celebration of culture on the fringes

Room for three and an inbuilt TV: this playful new bed reimagines intimacy

Buy a slice of California’s midcentury modern history with this 1955 Pasadena house

Step inside a writer's Richard Neutra-designed apartment in Los Angeles

At Bar Siesta in Los Angeles, meals linger and moods perk up

A first look inside Archives of Us, a secret café hidden in Downtown LA

You’ll soon be able to get a sneak peek inside Peter Zumthor’s LACMA expansion

New gallery Rajiv Menon Contemporary brings contemporary South Asian and diasporic art to Los Angeles

The Oscars 2025: how Anora winner Mikey Madison was transformed with hair and make-up design

Rosewood Residences Beverly Hills launches: we take the tour

West Hollywood restaurant Somni is as comforting as it is whimsical

Rebuilding LA: Altadena architects talk after the fire

Helmut Lang showcases his provocative sculptures in a modernist Los Angeles home

Hollywood Forever's new ‘vertical mausoleum’ is the tallest in the US

A local’s guide to Los Angeles by defiant artist Fawn Rogers

Enter Marea Beverly Hills, an Italian restaurant with Californian gusto