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Lavomatic Cafe - one of several popular restaurants in Over the Rhine's Gateway Quarter area in Cincinnati, Ohio. Located at 1211 Vine Street, Lavomatic is a unique establishment that is always highly-rated by locals, visitors, and tourism reviews.

Urban living fans are flocking to the Over the Rhine and downtown Cincinnati areas where they are finding rehabbed historic homes for sale. The Gateway Quarter area is a particularly unique area featuring shopping, residences and dining choices within close proximity.

Lucky Step - one of several popular quaint shops in Over the Rhine's Gateway Quarter area in Cincinnati, Ohio. Located at 1220 Vine Street, Lucky Step has a great selection of home furnishings and accessories.

Joseph Williams Home is Cincinnati's newest urban lifestyle furniture store offering a mix of classic modern designs, casual contemporary and comfortable transitional styles... all in an inviting decorated space. Located at 1232 Vine Street in the Gateway District in Over the Rhine, in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio.

Modern Classic Furniture

Rich craftsmanship and country design comes to life with the rugged beauty of the mission styled Brennan collection. The warm oak stained finish bathes this furniture with a rich inviting feel that transforms the atmosphere of any living area. With the raised panel details and rustic styled hardware, this entertainment wall captures the true essence of finely crafted furniture from a time gone by. Relax within the warm inviting atmosphere of the rustic Brennan collection. Constructed with select oak veneers and hardwood solids. Chamfered leg details. Chairs feature a pierced back splat. Rich warm finish features hand rubbed enhancements. Multi-color seat upholstery. Antique bronze colored hardware. Metal footrest cover. Tables feature self-storage leaf.

Taking its cue from the glamour years of the '40s, Beau Nouveau lives up to its name with dramatic design that is perfectly balanced by simple details. High-gloss rich finishes showcase cathedral walnut, African crotch mahogany and cerijiera crotch mahogany in designs with architectural and Biedermeier influences. Dramatic finishes anchor a geometric square-on-square pattern on some case pieces. Black granite and platinum metal accents – used strategically but sparingly – complete Beau Nouveau's glamorous sophistication.

Gracious in the British style of living, Barbados takes a fresh view of traditional design. This is a collection that speaks of history in a casual voice with authentic physical distressing associated with the ageless quality of a family heirloom. Its alluring combination of dark, rich andiroba solids with mahogany and jatoba veneers with golden pineapple hardware presents a striking contrast to crisp white linen fabric informally intermixed with blue and white paisley. Cane, raffia, belting leather and bamboo add tropical touches of the exotic to twisted carved posts and fluted pilasters. Select pieces in a rich cognac finish with brass hardware reflect the British Campaign Period, reminiscent of imperial officers who traveled the world accompanied by their elegant British furnishings.

With the curved contemporary design covered in a warm finish, the beauty of the Ariel collection perfectly completes the style and atmosphere of any home. The warm brown finish flows artistically over the curved fronts of this contemporary styled furnishings for your bedroom, dining room, family room, living room, entertainment space, and den to create an exceptional addition to the beauty of any home. With brushed nickel colored pendant hardware that perfectly complements the warm finish and ample storage space, Ariel flawlessly captures the true essence of original contemporary style. Create an updated look for your entire home with the warm relaxing design of the Ariel whole home collection.

Form meets function in American Perspective, capturing honest clean style with a flair and Shaker purity that seems both contemporary and traditional at the same time. Rooted in English-based American design, its clean lines reflect a fresh approach to the primitive simplicity that is well suited to today’s urban sensibilities. American Perspective is a collection of choices that allows one to indulge in personal expression. The collection features two key silhouettes: a tapered Shaker-style leg and the more substantial bracket base. Two styles of hardware are shipped with each piece: matching wood knobs and custom designed metal knobs inspired by the metal rosettes that were used in the past to hang pictures.

Alive with traditional style, the beauty of the Allister Collection features a rich finish and exquisite detailing that are sure to add an elegance that fits comfortably within any home decor. The medium brown finish, perfectly accented by the ash swirl inlay accents, flows beautifully over the deep traditional accents creating a truly sophisticated atmosphere for your home. With beautifully detailed hardware and elegantly detailed pilasters, this collection is an exceptional addition to your home environment. Create the look of your dreams with the traditional elegance of the Allister Collection.

Contemporary and confident, with a decidedly urban point of view, America Modern combines unexpected accents and unwavering attention to detail to give you the flexibility of creating your own look. A geometric grid pattern is repeated throughout the collection and can be dramatically combined with exotic Abacá and soft Dijon Recaro leather elements. Crafted of lightly distressed Maple and Birch solids with Cherry Veneers, its Deep Merlot finish adds depth and excitement to its classic 20th century elements and masterful workmanship for furniture for the bedroom, dining room, family room and home office.

Classic Leather Furniture

Located in revitalized Little Tokyo, the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center houses a rock garden sculpture, sunken garden and plaza, and highlights Japanese heritage and history.

Hollenbeck Park is one of the few open green spaces in East Los Angeles. The park was once an idyllic place for recreation and community gathering. The construction of a freeway through the lake in the park destroyed its serenity. Hollenbeck Park remains popular for the disproportionately Latino residents of East L.A.

Chavez Ravine was a bucolic Latino community through the 1950s, until the City of Los Angeles forcibly evicted the residents with promises of affordable housing. Mrs. Aurora Archega, whose family had resided in Chavez Ravine for 36 years, refused to leave her home, and was carried out by the police, with all of her belongings, on May 9, 1959, in a scene captured in this classic photograph. She was then jailed for 30 days. The City authorized the sale of Chavez Ravine to the Dodgers for a stadium 50 years ago on October 7, 1957. The Dodgers drowned Chavez Ravine in a sea of asphalt to build Dodger Stadium and a parking lot for 50,000 cars and not a single place for children to play. The Dodgers promised to spend $500,000 on a recreation facility in the area but have never done so. Los Desterrados, the people who lost their homes and way of life at Chavez Ravine, still meet regularly to commemorate the community there. Judy Baca and SPARC's Great Wall of Los Angeles commemorate these events. Culture Clash revived the forgotten history of Chavez Ravine in their play of that name, and Ry Cooder in his CD. Read the L.A. Times coverage of the 50th anniversary.

Founded in 1887 by a small group of Chinese Christians, the church was located on North Los Angeles Street, just a few buildings from where the Chinese American Museum now stands. It was the first church in Chinatown. In 1947, the church moved to 825 North Hill Street, where it is located today.

Hale House

Built between 1887 and 1888 for GW Morgan, the house was sold numerous times and moved twice before coming to the museum.

Originally located at 4501 North Pasadena Ave (now Figueroa St), it was purchased by James and Bessie Hale in 1906 at it’s 2nd location, 4425 N. Pasadena Ave. James was a motor man for the railroad. The couple separated a few years after moving in-Bessie remained in the house and took in boarders and bought and sold real estate in the hot property market of the early 20th century in Los Angeles. Moved to the museum in 1970, the house underwent a large restoration effort. It is a classic example of a Queen Anne/Eastlake style house. Queen Anne details include fish scale shingles, corner turret, iron grillwork and dentil blocks.

Charles Locke Eastlake was a renowned interior designer of the period. The Hale House’s extensive surface decorations, including chrysanthemums, fans, and geometric designs can be found in Eastlake’s book, Hints on Household Taste. Unfortunately for Eastlake, many of the designs that he abhorred were adopted by the homeowners and furniture makers alike who copied all of the designs in his book-the good and bad-and dubbed the ‘Eastlake’.

The exterior colors – four shades of green, three red, with yellow and Victorian black trim – were reproduced from pain uncovered during restoration. Lincrusta, a wall covering made to look like leather, decorates the downstairs rooms and is original to the building, as are the light fixtures, fireplaces, and some of the furniture. The upstairs bathroom contains original bathroom fixtures, including nickel-plated bathtub, ceramic sink and a pull-chain toilet.

Classic Oak Furniture

An authentic approach to the line decoration and treatment of the sides on Victorian pieces is to draw a single line inside the panel. This line is placed unusually close to the edge, but I copied that placement from the remnants of an incised carpenter's mark from the original decoration the piece had 125 years ago. That finish was long gone, but I could see where they marked it to have a line with this placement (only in a different color). This line is similarly worn and glazed as elswhere on the piece.

Is this sweet or what? I love the play of horizontal vs vertical stripes on this piece. It's formal, but fun.

My eye is just darting around everywhere with these lively rich gilt incised decoration. I love this shot... If you look carefully at the top edge of the protruding squre, above where the pinwheel is carved, you can see where I've painted this edge in with the gold leaf, just as they would have done in the Victorian time, but then I applied extra dark glaze over top of it, so that its patina is darker than the other gold accents. This gives the subtle impression of realism that the edge has worn and collected dirt over the course of 125 years of age. Very realistic....

Here is a great angle of the distressed wear on the top, and the satin sheen of the finish. It's worn, but not overworn. Well used, but polished. The sweet sophisticate.

This straight-on shot is a good example of Victorian decoration. You can see influence of Eastlake, but it has a naive cottage kind of charm about it. That attracted me to this piece in particular.

Classic Furniture

REDO cm 117x52x114 h

SIRIO cm 120x55x88 h

ORACLE cm 212x220x143 h

GIO ' cm 80x100

LUXORUNO cm 101x101

This follows the classic furniture featuring some of the interesting collective of which are: 101x101 cm LUXORUNO, GIO '80x100 cm, ORACLE 212x220x143 h cm, 120x55x88 cm SIRIO h, Redo cm 117x52x114 h. Many more classic collection of furniture available, including on the label. If you are interested check it out, would you be satisfied with itself. Thanks...