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Issue 01

Rooms in Use / Downtown

The lobby as a public room.

What happens when a hotel stops guarding its ground floor and lets the neighborhood sit down.

Words by the Local Time desk

/ Downtown Los Angeles / 6 min

Guests reading and talking in a warmly lit hotel lobby with velvet sofas, plants and marble tables.
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