Thai restaurants are as ubiquitous in Los Angeles as palm trees. But the local architects at Johnston Marklee & Associates resisted the city’s tired clichés—usually a punkish, fluorescent-inflected chinoiserie, circa 1984—to instead design a sleek, light-filled interior for The Orchid restaurant in Santa Monica. The 2,000-square-foot space opened in April 2005, half a block from the city’s palm-tree-lined Ocean Avenue.
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