Pasadena Showcase House 1st Vice-President Matt McIntyre and Pasadena Showcase House President Suzanne Hart at Pasadena Showcase House of Design Opening Gala and House Tour [Paul Takizawa/Pasadena Now]
Pasadena Showcase House Benefit Chair Assistant Lydia Rubin and Pasadena Showcase House Benefit Chair, 2nd Vice President Dotty Ewin at Pasadena Showcase House of Design Opening Gala and House Tour [Paul Takizawa/Pasadena Now]
Designer Rachel Duarte at Pasadena Showcase House of Design Opening Gala and House Tour [Paul Takizawa/Pasadena Now]
Designer Chia-Ming Ro at Pasadena Showcase House of Design Opening Gala and House Tour [Paul Takizawa/Pasadena Now]
Designer Mark Hermogeno at Pasadena Showcase House of Design Opening Gala and House Tour [Paul Takizawa/Pasadena Now]
Designer Carmine Sabatella at Pasadena Showcase House of Design Opening Gala and House Tour [Paul Takizawa/Pasadena Now]
Designer Ashleigh Miranda at Pasadena Showcase House of Design Opening Gala and House Tour [Paul Takizawa/Pasadena Now]
Designers Amy Peltier and Jessica Levy at Pasadena Showcase House of Design Opening Gala and House Tour [Paul Takizawa/Pasadena Now]
Designer Maria Videla at Pasadena Showcase House of Design Opening Gala and House Tour [Paul Takizawa/Pasadena Now]
Designer B. David Levine at Pasadena Showcase House of Design Opening Gala and House Tour [Paul Takizawa/Pasadena Now]
Designer Monique Wood at Pasadena Showcase House of Design Opening Gala and House Tour [Paul Takizawa/Pasadena Now]
Designer Karen Billman at Pasadena Showcase House of Design Opening Gala and House Tour [Paul Takizawa/Pasadena Now]
Leslie Caldwell and Melanie Holden at Pasadena Showcase House of Design Opening Gala and House Tour [Paul Takizawa/Pasadena Now]
Danielle Takata, Jeff Herring, Valerie Azlynn, and Matt Levin at Pasadena Showcase House of Design Opening Gala and House Tour [Paul Takizawa/Pasadena Now]
Ashley and Benjamin Pelka at Pasadena Showcase House of Design Opening Gala and House Tour [Paul Takizawa/Pasadena Now]
Daniel Song, Curtis Vega, Anto Minnassian, Ani Manjikian, Karen Keusayan, and Vikki Sung at Pasadena Showcase House of Design Opening Gala and House Tour [Paul Takizawa/Pasadena Now]
Jeannie Patricia and Jayzen Patricia at Pasadena Showcase House of Design Opening Gala and House Tour [Paul Takizawa/Pasadena Now]
Priscilla Sauce-Dio and Alison Crawley at Pasadena Showcase House of Design Opening Gala and House Tour [Paul Takizawa/Pasadena Now]
Joniel Colors, Rachel Scheff, and Jacob Eisenberg at Pasadena Showcase House of Design Opening Gala and House Tour [Paul Takizawa/Pasadena Now]
Gil Jackson and Reginald Smith at Pasadena Showcase House of Design Opening Gala and House Tour [Paul Takizawa/Pasadena Now]
Kevin Castanos and Teree Radenbaugh at Pasadena Showcase House of Design Opening Gala and House Tour [Paul Takizawa/Pasadena Now]
Avery Regan, Vince Regan, Karen Asher, Jim Asher, Jennifer Davis, and Kaley Costello at Pasadena Showcase House of Design Opening Gala and House Tour [Paul Takizawa/Pasadena Now]
Nick Mosaquites and Rachel Duarte at Pasadena Showcase House of Design Opening Gala and House Tour [Paul Takizawa/Pasadena Now]
24. Elaine Morrison and Richard Rothenberg at Pasadena Showcase House of Design Opening Gala and House Tour [Paul Takizawa/Pasadena Now]
Colin and Brittney Kozial at Pasadena Showcase House of Design Opening Gala and House Tour [Paul Takizawa/Pasadena Now]
Larry Abelson, Dana Abelson, and Britta Piotkowski at Pasadena Showcase House of Design Opening Gala and House Tour [Paul Takizawa/Pasadena Now]
Camille and Rachel Sutton at Pasadena Showcase House of Design Opening Gala and House Tour [Paul Takizawa/Pasadena Now]
Michelle Baher and Donna Barron at Pasadena Showcase House of Design Opening Gala and House Tour [Paul Takizawa/Pasadena Now]
Casey and Alex Kaplan at Pasadena Showcase House of Design Opening Gala and House Tour [Paul Takizawa/Pasadena Now]
Mary Jarrett and Michele Hemmings at Pasadena Showcase House of Design Opening Gala and House Tour [Paul Takizawa/Pasadena Now]
Jessica Harrison and Erin Wainess at Pasadena Showcase House of Design Opening Gala and House Tour [Paul Takizawa/Pasadena Now]
Karen Hudecek and Anna Yu Lee at Pasadena Showcase House of Design Opening Gala and House Tour [Paul Takizawa/Pasadena Now]
Leslie Dellivenneri and Staci Intravartolo at Pasadena Showcase House of Design Opening Gala and House Tour [Paul Takizawa/Pasadena Now]
John and Kristi Wlassich at Pasadena Showcase House of Design Opening Gala and House Tour [Paul Takizawa/Pasadena Now]
This year’s Showcase House of Design fundraising gala, which kicks off the house tour every year, took a decidedly different approach this time.
Guests to the fashionable bash took a shuttle bus from the Rose Bowl parking lot to the Potter Daniels Manor, in the hills overlooking the Arroyo Seco and the stadium, toured the spectacular property and its guests house and gardens, and then were whisked back down the hill to the Rose Bowl stadium courtyard, where a reception, dinner, live auction, and entertainment awaited.
There was no party at the house, which is preparing its own restaurant to run throughout the tour, so the nearly 300 guests, including this year’s crop of interior and exterior designers, dined on grilled steak and shrimp, and cocktails, in the shadow of the historic stadium, while listening to live music from the group, Art Deco Entertainment.
Benefit Chair Dotty Ewing welcomed the guests and informed them that the Pasadena Showcase House event, now in its 59th year, donated $1 million this past year to various music non-profits in the San Gabriel Valley. This is in addition to the more than $25 million that the event has raised since its founding in 1948, originally to help support the LA Philharmonic.
These days, the community musical support includes an instrumental competition, the Music Mobile, a youth concert series, and a gifts and grant program that awarded more than 100 grants to the local music community in 2023.
A live auction raised thousands of dollars more for the event, with guests bidding on items from a Viking River Cruise, to a helicopter ride-along with the South Pasadena Police Department, and a Hollywood Bowl Garden Box, and more.
“We couldn’t do any of this without you,” Ewing told the guests and volunteers.
Pasadena City Council member Tyron Hampton, in whose district the Showcase House sits, also praised the group’s longtime efforts, and remarked that he was pleased that the Showcase was “returning to my district. It has been away for too long.”
The 2024 Pasadena Showcase House of Design will be open to the public for tours from Sunday, April 21 to May 19, 2024. More information is available at www.pasadenashowcase.org.
