The Curators: Please Do Not Enter

My interview with Nicolas Libert and Emmanuel Renoird, founders of Downtown LA’s enticing concept store – Please Do Not Enter – has dropped at New York-based wanderlust guide Melting Butter. ‘The Curators’ is a collection of interviews with vanguards from around the world who share their insight about their city and creative environs. After visiting the curated space of Please Do Not Enter last year, Nicolas and Emmanuel kindly shared their cultural and culinary hotspots of Downtown LA with me.

Nicolas Libert & Emmanuel Renoird

As well as staging an ambitious programme of events at their Pershing Square headquarters alongside the collection of unique and limited edition luxury products, their personal guide proves Downtown LA is one of the of the most enterprising neighbourhoods in the city worthy of exploration – the stylish duo recently swapped the cultural capital of Paris for the City of Angels after all.

Curated Space: Please Do Not Enter

Discover the full interview with Please Do Not Enter at Melting Butter as well as their curated guide of hotspots from daylight to nightlife across Downtown LA.

Eggslut and Press Brothers Juicery located at Grand Central Market

OHWOW in West Hollywood

Mustache Mondays at La Cita Bar

My favourite art and design hotspots spanning from London to Europe are now available at my ever-expanding guide on Melting Butter here - happy exploring culture vultures!

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Images courtesy of Please Do Not Enter, Huffington Post, WSJ, OH WOW and La Cita Bar

Introducing: Melting Butter

Is it just me or do time and travel never seem to get along? There’s never enough time while you’re away exploring new sights and sounds and when you get back it feels like a lifetime waiting until the next adventure can begin. Despite much technological advancement – of which time travel is not one – if you’ve ever precariously perched out of your hotel window to catch free Wi-Fi out of thin air and punched the words ‘what to do in’ while you’re away from home, then you’re doing it all wrong. Lose the generic travel guides and reviews and by all means get lost; just get lost in the right places. After accumulating a fair amount of mileage on my travels, wandering the streets with only my eyes, ears and sensibility, I’ve amassed an international cultural log of art and design must-sees that I’ve not known what to do with - until now...

I’m very excited to announce I have joined the correspondent team at lifestyle hub Melting Butter. Founded by fellow globetrotter Jenny Nguyen-Barron, Melting Butter is a traveler’s ultimate digital companion, offering a curated online guide from dawn to dusk for explorers in search of the most inspiring and aspiring hotspots in New York and around the world.

As the site’s new arts and culture correspondent I’ll be covering contemporary art and design staples from across the pond in London and the rest of the UK as well as across Europe. Catch up on my latest favourite hotspots including Tate Britain, Tate Modern and the Barbican Centre online now.

Follow Melting Butter as I work my way through my travel log of galleries and institutions throughout Europe to make time while you travel last that little bit longer.

Barbican Centre image: Padsyms