GOODS & SERVICES • FOUND Shop
I met Ken Fulk in the mid-aughts, when I profiled him for an interior design column I wrote for a San Francisco city newspaper. Back then, he was known mostly for richly textured, whimsical residential work. His career has since expanded to include restaurants (Sadelle’s in Las Vegas), bars (Legacy Records in New York City), hotels (the Goodtime Hotel in Miami), and social clubs (The Battery in SF).
As of this month, Fulk can add a Los Angeles retail shop — his own — to that list. Nestled on a side street in the heart of West Hollywood’s design district, the new Ken Fulk boutique feels like a secret treasure trove of restored vintage furniture, fine art, and home goods.
Luxe tabletop items include mismatched Flint glassware from the 1800s, vintage Christolfe silver, and covetable hand-painted antique French plates adorned with asparagus. Throw pillows come in playful dog and tiger prints. Even the mint-green garden room is chic, with sculptural paper flowers from Livia Cetti and modern vessels from Italian ceramicist Paola Paronetto.
Not many can afford the designer and his team to work their magic on a home, but the new store offers a piece of Fulk’s sensibility, whether it’s as small as an Allistair McCowan bronze ring or as grand as $1500 terracotta horse head sculpture. –Karen Palmer
→ Ken Fulk (West Hollywood) • 555 Norwich Dr • Mon-Sat 10a-5p.