LA’s Buzziest Design Neighborhood Is Ready for Primetime

For this week’s edition of The Source, we’re returning to West Coast editor Mayer Rus for another dispatch. Below, Rus gives us the insider’s take on LA’s newest hotspot, Melrose Hill, which is home to a brood of hip new galleries, eateries, and other places to see and be seen.

—Lila Allen, Senior Editor, AD PRO

For anyone who didn’t get the memo, Los Angeles’s hottest new neighborhood is Melrose Hill, the formerly desolate, dilapidated stretch of mattress stores and repair shops clustered around the intersection of Western and Melrose Avenues. The name sounds like a 1990s or early-2000s television show on The CW, something starring Heather Locklear or James Van Der Beek, which I kind of like.

The drumbeat of redevelopment started ringing out several years ago, just as the city was reawakening from the apocalyptic fever dream of COVID-19. Early settlers included Sized, the freewheeling curatorial project spearheaded by that international man of mystery Alexander May, and the beloved furniture and decorative arts emporium Pop Up Home. It wasn’t long before the twin mechanisms of culture and commerce kicked into high gear, with buzzy new galleries, eateries, and boutiques emerging on the scene seemingly every month.

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