Park your HGTV love right here. The 58th Pasadena Showcase House of Design opens April 23 with 30 professionally-designed spaces and two acres of gardens highlighting the latest lifestyle trends.
The see-it, touch-it experience that is the showcase is the fundraiser produced by Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts, which celebrates its 75th anniversary this year. The group funds music programs and grants to other nonprofits that sponsor art and music programs.
This year’s Showcase House of Design is the 1933 grand colonial estate called the Stewart House in Pasadena. Designed by Sylvanus Marston and Edgar Maybury, the house has more than 11,000 square feet of living space on two acres of landscaped and manicured grounds. This is the Stewart House’s second incarnation as a show house, having been transformed in 1983 by top designers and decorators.
Matt McIntyre, the benefit’s chairman, said through the three-month transformation, designers honored Stewart House’s traditional roots “while bringing to bear magazine-worthy cutting-edge design.”
More than 25,000 guests are expected to see for themselves, through May 21, gleaning not only design inspiration, but also partaking of the shops, a pub and restaurant. The shops include more than 20 vendors offering ceramics, clothing, foodstuffs, home and garden decor, home goods, and jewelry.
Guests are shuttled to and from the property from Santa Anita Race Track, Gate 6 Lot on Colorado Place — the better to be good neighbors. Admission is by a timed ticket and vary in price ($35; $40; $50).
This is designer Kira Halter’s second go with the showcase. She worked under Denise Ranalli of Interiors by Ranalli in 2022 and returns with her own Pasadena-based Halter Home this year.
Assigned the home’s library, Halter said inspiration struck quickly.
“My thought was to do a black glossy library with accents of white and gold,” she said. “Very rich colors and textures. It came together very…
Read the full article here
