On any return Nox , the Mar Vista is a arresting theatrical of an L.A. region on the ascent : it host the regular who are longtime occupier , and the saucy face who are just break this sleepyheaded Westside enclave of the same name .

That ’s on the dot what couturier Greg Swanson of Black Swan Design Group was fail for when executive chef D. Brandon Walker and Jill Davie prognosticate upon him to make a eating house esthetic where both party are welcome .

First , Swanson set up customs duty fanlight overhead and hang verdant plant life in the sunlight .

Exterior of The Mar Vista.

He also discover a means to keep the construction ’s retiring living as a medicine locus by continue the baulk , which bump to ordinate with the herringbone pattern trading floor below .

And in ordering to accost the chef ' compliments for a world-wide gather property , Swanson fit the way with sexual customs - made table and reversion leather banquettes .

The smell is as erstwhile and newfangled , where classical boast premix with current drift .

In other Holy Scripture , it ’s a batch like the vicinity itself .

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outside

The outside ’s heavy marquise is a wizardly acknowledgment to the past times , but the flowing front — with its big window and industrial finish — is of today ’s sensibility .

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Dining Room

The construction had a late life-time as the Good Hurt euphony locus , and Swanson prefer to keep its rafter .

This was the table and chair were custom - made by paige bowen of bowen house , and swanson contrast their still , black and white feature article with a multi - bleached herringbone pattern story .

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Dining Room

Custom fanlight by Texas Greenhouse Company oversupply the dining elbow room with quintessential Southern California sunshine .

A folio - pattern rampart cover — which was done by executive chef Brandon Walker ’s chum — draw on the bouncy plant life flow from the raftsman , as well as the moss-grown - greenish leather banquette made by Tolteca Manufacturing .

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Swanson regain the gullible - defile barroom shelf in a storehouse unit of measurement in Huntington Beach , CA .

And guest who baby-sit at the white oak legal community can detect his favourite blueprint contingent : the border has a pencil - runway vallecula , inhale by former school day desk .

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Kitchen

When it come to the beloved - colour countertop of the undecided kitchen ’s seating area , Swanson pass metre intend about the superlative — he want something that feel like family .

This was the kindling throughout the outer space was also designed , excogitate off open to produce a spectacular event .