••• After 19 years, Cabana Home is moving from the Funk Zone to 925 De La Vina (Canon Perdido/Carrillo):
Renowned design firm Cabana Home is about to settle into the most important late 19th-century building in Santa Barbara at 925 De La Vina Street. From their original Funk Zone’s former bakery warehouse to Fabled Gables, a landmark Italianate Victorian built in 1874, the design team of Caroline Thompson and Steve Thompson were inspired by their European travels to inhabit a space with rich architectural details and socially significant provenance. The team will be in residence by appointment in May.
They will be hosting a 60% off sale April 23 through 26 (10 a.m.-6 p.m.) at 111 Santa Barbara Street. Furnishings from the showroom will include legendary makers like Lee, Baker, Arteriors, Janus et Cie, Bernhardt, Visual Comfort, Currey & Co, Hickory Chair, and Century.
••• The Marcus boutique on Coast Village Road has closed. That’s a big, prominent space—it’ll be interesting to see what takes it.
••• West Coast Pharmacy, which has locations in Thousand Oaks and Ventura, has opened at Goleta’s Calle Real Shopping Center. The goal, says founder Gary Klass, is “combatting the current state of the pharmacy industry, which is being dominated by players like CVS and Rite Aid, both of which which we fell have forgotten about the true needs of both the clients as well as the providers who are prescribing medication. We are hoping to bring back the core values of the traditional pharmacies and become a service partner in the community around Goleta and Santa Barbara.” And it’ll deliver to your home.
••• The Drybar blow-out salon on Coast Village Road will open April 26.
••• Ensemble Theatre Company announced its 2024-2025 season: “Opening with the recent Off-Broadway hit comedy Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors, followed by a celebration of four musical legends in Million Dollar Quartet. In February, one of the most iconic tales of all time, written 425 years ago by William Shakespeare, Hamlet, will hit the stage of The New Vic with a modern feel. Spring will have the incomparable Hershey Felder performing his amazing show about one of America’s greatest composers, George Gershwin, in George Gershwin Alone [below]. And ETC’s 46th season will close with Justice, about the first female justices appointed to the highest court in our nation.”
••• M. asked whether the new stop sign on Hot Springs Road at Riven Rock Road is permanent. Here’s what the county said: “The County installed the sign on March 21. The all-way stop was brought before the Board of Supervisors by the 1st District Supervisor’s Office to address the concerns a resident had for speeding on Hot Springs Road. All stop locations require the Board to pass a resolution. Hot Springs Road can not have speed humps to address speeding because of its use for emergency access and evacuations.”
••• A slate of improvements at Birnam Wood Golf Club were on the April 18 Montecito Board of Architectural Review agenda (but have since been pushed back to sometime in May). The figures are represented by X have yet to be shared.
• Increase membership from 800 to 804;
• Renovate existing gym and an addition of 2,441 SF;
• Demolish 1,410 SF pro‐shop;
• Construct new 3,100 SF golf and tennis pro‐shop;
• Construct new X SF pool, X SF spa, and a 779 SF pool house containing restrooms;
• Construct a new 877 SF snack bar;
• Demolish X SF pool;
• Construct 3 new cottages (3,751 SF total);
• Remove X LF of driving range netting and fence;
• Replace X LF of 6‐foot tall driving range fence with 20‐foot tall netting;
• Reconfigure parking lots and add 43 new spaces for a total of 205 spaces;
• Relocate an existing easement associated with Packing House Road; and
• Landscape and hardscape improvements.[…] A total of 22 trees (10 cork oaks, 3 pines, 3 ficus, 2 canary palms, 1 cypress, 1 eucalyptus, 1 queen palm, and 1 loquat) are proposed for removal.
••• After I posted about the dragon sculpture at a West Mesa house under construction, I heard from Steve Litchfield of Litchfield Builders, the contractor on the project: “It’s all made out of scrap metal by a sculptor in the Philippines then shipped to a distributor in Las Vegas.” And he sent over a couple of better photos. (Meanwhile, “My very nerdy boyfriend tells me that the three-headed dragon statue is almost certainly ‘Godzilla’s coolest enemy, King Ghidorah,’ commented Toasteroven.)
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