When Gavin Brodin (Crown Bar, The Abbey) was commissioned to create the restaurant and lounge for Rolling Stone, he set out to capture everything the legendary music magazine represents. Of the 10,500-square-foot space at Hollywood & Highland in L.A., Brodin notes, “The travel lounges of the British ruling class meet the conceptualized Paris of the 1870s — a place and time reminiscent of the rise of Bohemia, of Edouard Manet, Jean Paul Sartre, and the famed art salon once housed under the sky-high glass and steel girdered domes of the Palais Royale.” A brick-lined access tunnel for VIPs, iconic mag covers, 80 speakers, 40 computerized lights — did I mention they also serve food? (www.rollingstonela.com) MIA STEFANKO
