Letting LA’s Unique Side Show
by Nicole Campoy-Leffler
Add this to your overflowing calendar this weekend: the Second Annual Unique Los Angeles Independent Design and Gift Sale. Talk about getting all your holiday shopping done in one place. The sale is held on Saturday and Sunday (December 5 and 6) from 11am – 6pm both days at the California Market Center in Downtown LA. Walk through those doors, after paying the $10 entrance fee, and you will be met with an enormous space filled with gifts that your friends actually want.
If you think about it, when else will you find Graf and Lantz handbags alongside KLEAN Bath and Body, next door to handcrafted jewelry, all a stone’s throw from Gray Malin Photography? There are over 300 designers, artists, and jewelers represented in this show, meaning if you don’t find something for your sister-in-law’s third cousin removed, she really is too hard to shop for.
Photo: Gray Malin Photography
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