Layout Calendar: March 9–31
If flowers, fashion, interior photography or LEGOs are your thing, our roundup of upcoming events throughout the nation has something for you. Below.
Agent Gallery Chicago
MARKET — March 11, 2012, 10 Gamble– 4 p.m.; one Sunday a month afterwards
Dose Market, River East Art Center, 435 E. Illinois St., Chicago
Get your monthly fix of food, fashion and design finds in the Windy City’s yearlong Dose Market. Spend your Sunday surfing the modern halls of the River East Art Center as it comes home with over 30 vendors and dealers selling everything from artisan chocolates and biscuits to vintage eyeware and tabletop accessories. Watch what quirky Agent Gallery attracts this month (I am digging the quotation marks above), and what fancy menswear store Apartment Number 9 has in store for your fashionable hunk in your lifetime. See a complete list of the March “Dosers” here.
Price: $10 admission at the door; $8 online preorders
Afterward, get a dose of spring in the Chicago Flower Show, occurring March 10–18. See how anglers interpret high fashion into new display gardens celebrating this year’s “Hort Couture,” theme. Participate in seed swaps, potting parties, edible backyard workshops and much more.
Hours: Monday–Saturday, 10 Gamble–8 p.m.; Sundays, 10 Gamble–6 p.m.
Price:Online preorders, $15 weekdays, $17 weekend; bought at Navy Pier box office, $17 weekdays, $19 weekend; $5 children ages 4 to 12
sfgardenshow.com
FLOWER SHOW — March 21–25, 2012
San Francisco Flower and Garden Show
San Mateo Event Center, 1346 Saratoga Dr., San Mateo, California
Whether you’re green thumbed or just have two twiddling thumbs searching for something interesting to do, check out this year’s San Francisco Flower and Garden Show. You may store all day for flowers, rare plants, orchids and other offers from over 200 exhibitors, plus learn how to grow edibles and hear out of Ahmed Hassan of the DIY Network’s Yard Crashers. Celebrity chefs, such as Greens Restaurant’s Annie Somerville and Martin Yan will do demonstrations.
Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 10 Gamble–7 p.m.; Sunday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
Price: all-show pass, $25; one-day ticket, $16 adults before March 11, $20 adults starting March 12; free to all those 16 and younger
brentcomber.com
SHOW — March 22–25, 2012
Architectural Digest Home Design Show
Pier 94, 55th Street at 12th Avenue, New York City
Get a one-on-one consultation with a top design professional or just network with industry professionals in this year’s thrilling four-day event at Pier 94. More than 400 exhibits include works by designer Brent Comber (photo), tablescapes from DIFFA’s Dining by Design and fresh home furnishings. Attend a book signing, take part in a cooking session, attend a seminar on small-space living and much more.
Price: $25 online, $30 at the door
CONFERENCE — March 20–22, 2012
WestWeek 2012
Pacific Design Center, 8687 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood, California
This season marks the 25th season of WestWeek, the Pacific Design Center’s biggest annual design industry event. Events include a discussion by Architectural Digest‘s Margaret Russell on “Trends in Interior Photography” along with a discussion about “The Rise of the Rock Star Designer” with HGTV’s David Bromstad along with Antonio Ballatore, Bravo’s Martyn Lawrence-Bullard and Kathyrn Ireland. Get the full schedule.
LEGO Shop
CONTEST — Deadline: March 29, 2012
LEGO Modern Home Design Competition
Tap into your inner kid (and architect) to construct a version of an original homemade entirely of LEGOs and motivated by iconic California midcentury modern architecture. Dwell has combined forces with Pacific Standard Time for this fun contest letting your imagination and sense of scale run free. The top five entries will be chosen by you, the design community, and will likely be on display at Dwell on Design, June 22–24, 2012. A panel of judges will pick the grand prize winner live from the show floor. Input.
David Duncan Livingston
WORKSHOP — March 31, 2012, 10 a.m. into 3 p.m.
Scouting, Styling and Shooting for Magazines with David Livingston
Mill Valley, California
In the event you missed inside photographer David Livingston’s last workshop, his forthcoming session will offer just as many hints and tricks for enhancing your interior design photographs. Find out about camera angles; the placement of furnishings, florals, toys and food items; properly scaled artwork and much more.
Price: $175, such as lunch. Mail [email protected] for registration and location details.
More 2012 design occasions: Feb. 24–March 16, March 2–22, 2012
What is on your calendar? Let us know in the Remarks.