Bouncin' California

Inside the PDC


The PDC!

The Tornado Sculpture

The Oliver Chair

Yellow everyone!
This post is coming to you all from the land of fun in the sun, where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer...LA! Ha!

Why am I in such a place? For the next 6 to 7 weeks I am interning for a fabulous firm in Sun Valley, California called, H Studio by Shlomi Haziza. Its crazy to think that just a year ago I was touring europe studying abroad...oh the places we'll go! I'm excited and oh so nervous to take on this next big adventure!

I just finished my first week at H Studio and its been an interesting one! My first day was actually pretty slow, I'm the only intern and everyone was super busy so I put folders together that they give to clients and the press. Towards the end of the day I got to meet Mr. Shlomi Haziza himself! In the flesh, thee master mind of incredible art, furniture, and fashion. He is so cool and charming...not to mention, pretty handsom for an older guy! If you've ever watched the show Chuck, he looks like a 50 year old Chuck Bartowsky...I know right?! Anyways, Shlomi was asking me all sorts of questions...where are you from, how old are you, how long have you been going to school, what do you want from this experience? Those type of questions. After chit-chatting with him for a bit, he decided to put me incharge of designing a master bedroom for one of their biggest clients...all by myself! What the hell!? This is so cool and oh so scary at the same time!

So during this week I went to the clients house, which is on top of the freaking mountain overlooking all of Hollywood and LA! Gorgeous house, almost everything she owns is from H Studio. I thought I was walking through an H Studio gallery! While there I took tons of measurements and pictures of the room. Shlomi and I are thinking of doing the room in turquoise and charcoal, its going to be sweet! The other day I found this awesome turquoise wall covering and Shlomi loved it! He kept saying "Yeah thats what I'm talking about! Don't go back to school, don't go back to school!" It was such a relief to me because half of the time I feel like I don't know what I'm doing!

The basketball playoffs were this week too so Shlomi wanted to deck out the studio, play loud music, and have an open house. You should have seen the place! The studio that we work at is so cool! Its very modern and contemporary. White floors, walls, and ceilings. Tons of open space to display our products and of course, also to have fabulous parties! Pretty sure he made a lot of money that night!

On Wednesday I got to go to the PDC (Pacific Design Center)!!! Ellen (one of my supervisors) wanted me to return some fabric samples there. Freaking huge building! Very modern architecture, glass everywhere, super cool building! I'm sure I'll get to go back, hopefully soon!

Yesterday I got to go see Amy and Kaitlyn at Disneyland and spend the night with them in their hotel! They've been in Anahiem all this week so I'm glad that I got to see them before they headed back to Utah. I freaking love Disneyland! It really is one of the happiest places on earth for me!

One other fun but not so fun thing that happend this week was my laptop hard drive decided to have a $300 fail! So I took it to the Geek Squad and they replaced it but in the process I've lost all of my programs that I've installed, everything is gone! Music, pictures, everything! Lucky I had most of it saved on my external hard drive. Its been the biggest pain to get things back on it, not to mention I'm out $300 and thats a lot when I'm getting 'paid' in experience this summer! I am so ticked! Oh well, it is what it is!

Its been a crazy week and I'm poo-poo-pooped! Until next time...peace out!