For the VIC guests who have seen everything
and are waiting to feel something.
Your most important relationships, collectors, board members, founders, creative directors, long-held clients have seen everything one can offer.
A dinner. A suite. A front row.
What they are searching for now is something that feels genuinely rare: a setting that exists outside of public life, an experience that was clearly made for them, and a memory that belongs only to this moment.
Sophie Westacott curates exactly that, through private access to one of the most quietly significant places in American design.
The Charles & Ray Picnic: Lunch in the Meadow
Charles and Ray Eames understood that the best ideas arrive when people are comfortable, unhurried, and in the presence of something beautiful. The Charles & Ray Picnic is designed in that spirit — a private midday gathering in the Eames House meadow, held beneath a canopy of ancient eucalyptus with the Pacific stretching to the horizon.
Guests are welcomed into the meadow and seated at a thoughtfully laid table, across lush blanket arrangements spread into the grass, or both — the configuration shaped to the nature of the group and the feeling of the day. The menu is seasonal and considered. Birdsong carries through the canopy. Dolphins move through the blue below the bluffs.
The meadow holds a particular kind of quiet that Los Angeles rarely offers — unhurried, wild at its edges, and entirely private. An afternoon your guests will carry with them long after they leave.
Experience I
Interior Tour of the Eames House
Case Study House #8 is among the most studied and celebrated works of twentieth-century architecture — and one of the most carefully protected. Sophie, as Engagement Consultant to the Charles & Ray Eames Foundation, arranges private access to the house in a way that almost no one else can.
Guests step inside the living and studio structures as Charles and Ray intended them to be inhabited, not observed. Every object has a story. Every surface has an intention. The tour moves at the pace of genuine curiosity — unhurried, personal, and led by someone who understands the house not as a landmark but as a living idea.
For guests who care about design, craft, or the creative process — this is not a tour. It is a conversation with one of the great minds of the twentieth century, mediated by the space they left behind.
Experience II
Experience IIISunset Cocktails in the Meadow
The Eames House meadow sits inside a rare urban wilderness — a sloped expanse of ancient eucalyptus on the Pacific Palisades bluff, where the Santa Monica Mountains exhale into the sea. As the light drops toward the horizon, your private party gathers for cocktails in a landscape that shifts with the hour.
With the Pacific laid out before you and dolphins tracing slow arcs through the blue below the bluffs, conversation finds its own depth. The sky moves through its colors. The grove holds the warmth of the day a little longer than everywhere else. It is an evening that feels, to most who experience it, quietly unrepeatable.