Since its inception, Frieze has been as invested in shaping critical discourse as in shaping the market, with artists, scholars, and thinkers gathering in London’s Regent’s Park to explore the social and cultural impact of contemporary art. While that spirit remains intact, Frieze has grown into one of the most influential art fairs in the world, with editions in major cultural centers including London, New York, Los Angeles, and Seoul. This year again, Frieze Los Angeles sets its stands at Santa Monica Airport, bringing together just under 100 international galleries alongside a strong contingent from California and the wider U.S. The fair continues its emphasis on Los Angeles as both subject and site, with large-scale works responding to the city’s sprawl, light, and cultural hybridity. The Focus section showcases emerging galleries through tightly curated solo and dual presentations, while Frieze Projects extends beyond the tents with commissioned performances and public artworks, including Amanda Ross-Ho’s daily ritual of pushing a giant inflatable Earth across adjacent fields. Talks and curated programming reinforce themes of materiality, place, and identity, underscoring Frieze LA’s role as a platform for both global exchange and local specificity.
Coinciding with Frieze Los Angeles, Invisible Collection presents Home Abroad, a year-long residency at Phillips in West Hollywood. Featuring a program of rotating exhibitions of collectible designs, handpicked to resonate with Phillips’ selected artworks, Invisible Collection continues to weave connections between the worlds of art and collectible design, bringing its unmistakable French aesthetic to the West Coast. With this 2026 edition that feels like a conversation with the city rather than a transplant of the global fair circuit, the mood is less about spectacle than atmosphere, reflecting the city’s cultural energy and diversity. In this spirit, Phillips presents Beachers, a series of paintings by acclaimed Cuban-born artist Diango Hernández, which will be offered through the company’s Dropshop channel. The title derives from playeros, a term in Cuba that describes a deep, enduring attachment to the beach. The paintings explore water, with recurring motifs of waves and distortions, as a metaphor for memory, movement, and contemplation: the beach is no longer a backdrop but a place of lived experience. In addition, a curated selection of Natural History highlights will be on view, featuring exceptional fossils spanning 12 to 180 million years, including a historic group of sculptural iron meteorites, a lunar specimen, and a leading candidate for the first meteorite proposed to originate from Mercury.
In this setting, rich with color and emotion, and with distinctly out-of-this-world materials — literally — Invisible Collection‘s designs act as experiential, grounding counterpoints and subtle connections. Iconic Pierre Chareau reissues, including the Nun Lamp; notable plaster works by Stephen Antonson; and seating by AD100 Garcé Dimofski, alongside other signature pieces by Invisible Collection’s star designers, contribute to an overall atmosphere that is dynamic yet laid-back, in true Californian spirit.
A curated rotation of designs crafted in the finest French and European ateliers will be on display throughout the year, cementing Invisible Collection’s connection to its West Coast audience of designers, architects, collectors, and innovators. “We named this residency Home Abroad because we’ve always seen the US as a second home for us; a place with a vast community of enthusiastic collectors and design connoisseurs who truly appreciate and understand what Invisible Collection is about,” says co-founder Isabelle Dubern-Mallevays.
