CA BOOM architecture showcase to begin Friday
SM AIRPORT Architecture and interior design lovers, get the rulers and sketchbooks ready.
CA BOOM will hold its fourth annual design show and trade fair today through Sunday at the Barker Hangar at the Santa Monica Airport. Billing itself as the continent’s only multi-discipline design show and trade fair, CA BOOM 4 will feature exhibitors representing categories such as indoor and outdoor living, Prefab and building accessories.
One of the biggest exhibitions this year will be the Prefab Zone, which had a successful first run in CA BOOM 3 last year. The Prefab Zone will feature local prefab company LivingHomes, whose owner, Steve Glenn, built an environmentally friendly prefab home in Ocean Park, as well as other prefab companies. An architecture tour of Santa Monica homes today will highlight Glenn’s prefab residence on Highland Avenue.
The Prefab Zone will also allow interested homebuyers to negotiate with and purchase homes from prefab companies.
“In the past year, the modernist prefab manufacturers have had the necessary break-through to deliver product and CA BOOM’s Prefab Zone participants confirm this,” said CA BOOM Founder and Executive Producer Charles M. Trotter. “Instead of just talking about prefab, our prefab manufacturers have successfully delivered product and put a dozen houses in the ground.”
For the first time, CA BOOM will feature a six hour Trade Only Day today and a Modern Parenting Zone all weekend. The latter will highlight high design furniture for children.
Un-established designers can also attempt their first crack at the architecture and interior design world through the First- Timer’s Zone.
“CA BOOM prides itself on functioning as an incubator for the careers of new designers, many of whom are recent design and architecture school grads,” Totter said. “CA BOOM is a unique opportunity for them to showcase new products and designs and get instant feedback from potential buyers.
Admission for the event is $20 per day. The architectural tours, which covers Santa Monica on Friday, Venice on Saturday and West LA/Mar Vista on Sunday, costs $75 a day or $200 for the entire weekend.
For more information, visit the CA BOOM 4 Web site, caboomshow.com.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on March 30, 2007. Read the original PDF.