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Kristofer Keith to clobber competition?
If you read the LA Times article about Spacecraft's Kristofer Keith, who designed Goa, Kitchen 24 and a ton more, then you know he's not afraid to ruffle feathers. "I gave myself 10 years to run all my competition out of town and take their clients," he told the paper in March. "And it's working."
By competition, he certainly is referring in part to Dodd
Mitchell, who, until recently, was the man behind almost every high-profile
venue in L.A.
including Teddy's and Falcon.
Keith was no less bold today when we chatted about his upcoming projects. Just a gentle nudge about Mitchell and Keith was off like a horse at the races. "He's a symbol of the way things were," said Keith. "Everything he did looked the same." He went on: "I'm not picking on Dodd, but he has a 50-percent failure rate. All the stuff he opened on Sunset went out of business already expect Katana." Well, that's not quite true, though, if you look at a list of Mitchell's projects, you'll see many of them have closed, though, then again, L.A.'s a fickle city. It's Keith's flair for the dramatic that probably makes him such a great designer.
Ironically, one of Keith's upcoming projects is called Oliver's*, not to be confused with Oliver Café & Lounge designed by Mitchell. Located in the spot on Melrose Avenue that used to house Forty Deuce, Oliver's will have a '70s look with a sunken fire pit and an earthy color scheme. Picture a vintage issue of Good Housekeeping, he tells me, rather than Austin Powers.
Also in the cooker are a few Cahuenga Corridor spots, but since nightlife people are often tighter lipped than Lindsay Lohan's publicist, I can only tell you about Bar Deluxe for now. Expect an art deco-style spot specializing in whiskey, slated to open later this summer.
UPDATE: I just learned that the former Forty Deuce space will not be called Oliver's.
—Alexandra Le Tellier
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