The long-awaited Guerin Pavilion at the Skirball Cultural Center is nearly finished, with an opening date slated for November and media previews in August. The 9,000 square-foot ballroom is capped with dramatic arches, a high-end kitchen, a massive courtyard garden, a private olive grove, and scenic garden patios with fire pits.
The Montage Beverly Hills rooftop pool opens this week as a venue for private events of as many as 220 guests. The chic alfresco space has views above Beverly Hills and the surrounding environs.
Hakkasan Beverly Hills is a 10,000-square-foot restaurant slated to open in mid-September. Hakkasan Ltd. restaurant group’s latest venture is headed by Michelin-starred chef Ho Chee Boon and will serve Cantonese cuisine with Asian-inspired cocktails, wines, and sakes. Conceptualized by Parisian design firm Gilles & Boissier, Hakkasan Beverly Hills will feature an intricate Shanghai Chinois-inspired aesthetic. The signature Hakkasan blue façade and ornately patterned stainless steel doors open into the space, which has a dramatic main dining area that seats 132 and features sculpted white marble calacatta walls and oak accents. The restaurant is surrounded by a set of carved Chinese screens known as the Cage, a classic Hakkasan design element, meant to facilitate privacy at the tables. At one end of the room is a 66-foot-long, blue backlit glass bar. The kitchen, as in all Hakkasan locations, is visible through the blue glass partition at the back of the restaurant. The Lotus is the private dining room, which seats 18 guests.
Hospitality pros John Terzian, Brian Toll, and Markus Molinari of the H.wood.group have brought their newest venture, Hooray Henry’s, to Beverly Boulevard. The playful space was inspired by the concept of the quirky yet sophisticated young British gentleman, or so-called Hooray Henry, and reminiscent of old London style with vertical and horizontal lines, brass accents, smoky mirrors, and splashes of color. John Sofio of Built (designs include Pink Taco and Shorebar) is behind the design, and said that the detailing of the booths was inspired by the Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow. There are custom equestrian lamps, tartan carpeting, and vintage English trophies culled from a British cyclist’s collection. A 3-D projection wall is above the DJ booth, and upstairs there’s an intimate room meant to feel like a London hotel suite.
