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Flexible Part Time Membership with Open Desk Access.

1 m²
12 sq ft
los angeles
US
$34 / day
per day
private event
1 use case
city
Los Angeles
area
1 sqm
day rate
$34 / day
postcode
use cases
corporate event · networking event
included
Internet · Air Conditioning · Security System

about this space

Experience the flexibility of our Part Time Membership package, allowing you to choose any available open desk or utilize the cozy back room for your workspace needs. This option offers day passes and access Monday through Friday during business hours, enabling you to take full advantage of our amenities. Members benefit from exclusive rates for booking events and meetings, while having the choice to work at any open desk or table that suits your requirements. Enjoy a range of features including internet access, air conditioning, a security system, a stock room, counters, fitting rooms, a garment rack, and lighting. Additional amenities include furniture, sound and video equipment, electricity, heating, parking, an elevator, a kitchen, and Wi-Fi.

what's included

  • Internet
  • Air Conditioning
  • Security System
  • Stock Room
  • Counters
  • Fitting Rooms
  • Garment Rack
  • Lighting
  • Furniture
  • Sound & Video Equipment
  • Electricity
  • Heating
  • Parking
  • Elevator
  • Kitchen
  • Wifi

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how to book this space

  1. 01

    Check the shell and the dates

    Review the gallery, 1 sqm floor plan and amenities for Flexible Part Time Membership with Open Desk Access, then note the window you want in Los Angeles. Fashion week dates book 6–10 weeks out.

  2. 02

    Send the brief

    Use the request panel on this page to send your dates, expected footfall and budget. The listed rate is a starting point at €29 per day.

  3. 03

    Get availability and a quote

    We confirm availability with the operator and come back within 24 hours with the all-in cost: rent, staffing, permits and fit-out for Los Angeles.

  4. 04

    Lock the contract

    Sign the short-term licence, pay the deposit and we register any permit or signage paperwork the address needs.

  5. 05

    Build and open

    Fit-out, install and staff the pop-up. Our production team handles delivery, install and the strike at the end of the run in Los Angeles.

use cases

corporate eventnetworking event

location

plotting…
los angeles·34.0661° · -118.2364°

getting here & street life

nearest transit

  • Chinatownrail267 m · 3 min
  • Broadway & Bernardbus65 m · 1 min
  • Bernard & Broadwaybus · 601874 m · 1 min
  • Broadway & Gin Lingbus · 6019103 m · 1 min
  • Hill & Gin Lingbus146 m · 2 min
  • Broadway & Collegebus · 2182234 m · 3 min

the neighbourhood

Materials & Applications is a Los Angeles–based art and architecture exhibition space. M&A's exhibitions typically take the form of outdoor, public installations, and one-to-one architecture. The organization is one of dozens of small non-profit artist run spaces that have been called "feral" in their relationship to larger, more established organizations and museums in Los Angeles. Jeremy Rosenberg, a Los Angeles-based writer, has likened it to other "feral" artist-run organizations such as The Museum of Jurassic Technology, Center for Land Use Interpretation, and Echo Park Film Center.

  • Chinatown East and West Gates · 104 m
  • Statue of Sun Yat-sen (Los Angeles) · 107 m
  • Hong Kong Café · 107 m
  • Statue of Bruce Lee (Los Angeles) · 147 m
  • Coagula Curatorial · 162 m

frequently asked

Yes — Flexible Part Time Membership with Open Desk Access is a vetted pop-up ready space in Los Angeles, 1 sqm. Request availability and dates through the inquiry card on the listing.

who it suits

Brand Scale

This membership suits a one to three person brand: a founder plus an assistant or a freelance designer, typically under three years of trading, running a DTC or early wholesale line with a handful of stockists. The listing is a single open desk with day pass access Monday to Friday, so what you are buying is a working base inside a shared building rather than a floor plate you control. That base happens to carry fitting rooms, counters, a stock room and a garment rack, which is why it works for garment businesses rather than generic desk seekers. Brands at this stage typically find it covers sampling reviews, order admin and a place to receive one buyer at a time. Where we see mismatches is when a fifteen person team or a brand with a full seasonal wholesale calendar books in and discovers there is no dedicated room to hold, hang and secure a full collection. Those teams should be looking at a private showroom or temporary retail space instead.

Aesthetic Fit

Aesthetically this is a workmanlike, neutral shared interior on a basement level inside a mall structure in Chinatown, which favours brands whose identity is grounded rather than atmospheric: workwear, streetwear, denim, unisex basics, upcycled or deadstock lines, jewellery and small accessories. The Chinatown location, minutes from the East and West Gates and a short walk from the rail stop, reads as independent and creative LA, and brands with that positioning look at home here. What does not work is a luxury house or a high polish beauty brand that needs a controlled envelope, natural light and a considered entrance sequence. A basement desk in a shared floor cannot deliver a brand presentation space with that level of visual authorship, and no amount of styling fixes the shared sightlines. If a fully art directed environment is the requirement, start with concept and direction and a different type of venue.

Best Use Cases

First choice is a working base for wholesale appointments and one to one buyer meetings, since the fitting rooms, garment rack and counters let you show and fit product without hiring a separate fashion showroom. Second is sample and production admin during a development cycle, with the stock room and secure building covering short term storage between factory drops. Third is a small content studio day, using the existing lighting, sound and video equipment and furniture to shoot lookbook or social assets on a budget. Fourth is networking and corporate style gatherings, which the operator supports through member rates on event and meeting bookings. Fifth is a low key collection preview for local press and stylists, best kept to small numbers. We would not recommend it for a public pop-up shop or a sample sale, because basement access, shared circulation and no street frontage mean footfall simply will not find you.

Budget Signal

This sits at the entry tier of the Los Angeles market, well below anything on street level in Chinatown, the Arts District or on Melrose, and below hotel meeting rooms and private showroom suites downtown. In our experience the profile that gets the most from this space is a founder who would otherwise be paying general co-working rates and still needing to rent racks, fitting rooms and lighting separately. Here those garment specific features are already in the building, along with parking, kitchen, elevator, air conditioning and a security system, which is unusual value at this level. What you give up is exclusivity, branding rights and public visibility, all of which a dedicated short-term commercial space delivers at several times the outlay. Model both routes against your season budget using our budget calculator before committing.

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edition
vol. iv · ss27
type
cormorant · plex mono
finish
gold foil 871c