{"id":5382,"date":"2008-02-02T11:56:08","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T18:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/?p=5382"},"modified":"2018-03-05T00:09:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T08:09:49","slug":"wallpaper-design-awards-of-2008-best-city-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/travel\/wallpaper-design-awards-of-2008-best-city-los-angeles\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallpaper* Design Awards of 2008: Best City, Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much to my surprise, while perusing my new Wallpaper* magazine, I discovered that Wallpaper* awarded Los Angeles with &#8220;Best City&#8221;.  It&#8217;s not that I don&#8217;t love Los Angeles, it&#8217;s just when I moved hear exactly one year ago, I got a lot of flack from a lot of people. It has a bad reputation, but I&#8217;m finding it&#8217;s really a great place to be.<br\/ ><br\/ ><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s long been easy to knock LA, but a slow bounce-back began with the new millennium. House prices have gone through the roof and tourism is at record post-9\/11 levels. The city of Eames, Neutra and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcGoogie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 has always had few equals in its appreciation of challenging design, and it shows in the star status given to the people creating the look of today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s LA, from Kelly Wearstler to Thom Mayne and, of course, Frank Gehry. &#8220;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much to my surprise, while perusing my new Wallpaper* magazine, I discovered that Wallpaper* awarded Los Angeles with &#8220;Best City&#8221;. It&#8217;s not that I don&#8217;t love Los Angeles, it&#8217;s just when I moved hear exactly one year ago, I got a lot of flack from a lot of people. It has a bad reputation, but [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[196,250],"tags":[394],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5382"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40284,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5382\/revisions\/40284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}