Lisa Boone

2 weeks ago | thederrick.com | Lisa Boone

LOS ANGELES — Caitlin Villarreal felt giddy the first time she stepped inside the Whitley Heights rental, a storied 1926 Mediterranean-style penthouse with towering ceilings, hand-carved wooden beams and a pair of arched bookcases alongside an oversize fireplace. "It had good energy," Villarreal said of the 1,500-square-foot apartment she rents for $5,300 a month in a historic neighborhood where Rudolph Valentino, Charlie Chaplin and Bette Davis once lived.

2 weeks ago | charlotteobserver.com | Lisa Boone

LOS ANGELES - Caitlin Villarreal felt giddy the first time she stepped inside the Whitley Heights rental, a storied 1926 Mediterranean-style penthouse with towering ceilings, hand-carved wooden beams and a pair of arched bookcases alongside an oversize fireplace. "It had good energy," Villarreal said of the 1,500-square-foot apartment she rents for $5,300 a month in a historic neighborhood where Rudolph Valentino, Charlie Chaplin and Bette Davis once lived.

3 weeks ago | latimes.com | Lisa Boone

Caitlin Villarreal felt giddy the first time she stepped inside the Whitley Heights rental, a storied 1926 Mediterranean-style penthouse with towering ceilings, hand-carved wooden beams and a pair of arched bookcases alongside an oversize fireplace. “It had good energy,” Villarreal said of the 1,500-square-foot apartment she rents for $5,300 a month in a historic neighborhood where Rudolph Valentino, Charlie Chaplin and Bette Davis once lived. “It’s iconic just by standing tall year after year.

3 weeks ago | latimes.com | Lisa Boone

1 After four of the 30 designers lost their homes and Showcase furnishings in the Eaton Fire, the committee supporting the Pasadena Showcase House of Design wasn’t sure it could stage this year’s 60th annual event. Yet, in a testament to the power of community, the designers persevered, managing to source new items to replace those lost while coping with their own personal loss for the nonprofit‘s big event.

4 weeks ago | latimes.com | Deborah Netburn |Deborah Vankin |Lisa Boone |Michelle Woo |Brittany Levine Beckman |Jackie Snow

While interned during World War I, a German-born physical trainer named Joseph Pilates developed a precise method for rehabilitation. It began as a series of mat exercises and evolved into an exercise that made use of equipment he fashioned from bed springs and whatever materials he could find to help bedridden patients regain strength. Pilates brought this complete system, originally called “Contrology,” to New York in the 1920s, where it gained popularity among dancers and performers.