
Husband-and-wife team Jon and Maša Kleinhample, who hail respectively from California and Slovenia, first met in Berlin and founded their agency, Klein, in Belgium. They finally put down roots in Los Angeles in 2017, with the city’s famed sunshine and bright creative scene has proven to be a great source of inspiration for the duo, who are now launching two new projects, conceived in their vast warehouse HQ in the city’s Arts District.
The first – and a real milestone for the studio, whose past projects include furniture collections as well as private residences in Echo Park and restaurants on Melrose Avenue – is The Annex, a new gallery in Silverlake designed to be a creative hub and gathering space, involving an ongoing dialogue with the local design community.