From Malibu to Pasadena, the beach cities to the Hills — placement, mounting and installation for private collections and the designers who build them.
Los Angeles houses ask harder questions of a wall than most. Post-and-beam and glass leave very little wall to work with, so placement becomes a question of what the room can hold at all. Hillside houses put steel and shear panel where you want a fixing. Lime plaster, board-formed concrete and stone all behave differently under a drill, and a canyon house moves in a way a flat lot does not.
The method does not change. Anything heavy goes onto a cleat. Anything that would be dangerous if it moved gets security hardware. Placement is settled in the room, at full size, before a hole is made — and on the West Coast that includes the seismic question, whether or not anyone raises it.
Placement is design.
A collection can be worth more than the room it hangs in. It should be treated that way — from how it arrives to where it finally sits.