The MAK Center’s Centennial Benefit Dinner celebrates the one hundred year anniversary of Los Angeles most iconic modernist house. The evening is the organization’s fundraiser of the year—if not the century —unfolding in one of Los Angeles’s most celebrated architectural masterpiece: the Schindler House. Named by the Los Angeles Times as one of the city’s top ten places that nourish the soul, the Schindler House has been home to a century of Los Angeles' most iconic and creative artists, architects and designers. In collaboration with Minh Phan of Phenakite-fame, the MAK Center invites our supporters to celebrate the first century of R.M. Schindler’s home and studio. All proceeds benefit MAK Center’s annual calendar of exhibitions, programs and international residencies, alongside the public activation of three landmark architectural sites by R.M. Schindler.
On Saturday, July 23rd, our most dedicated supporters are invited to partake in the simple and fantastic pleasures of Schindler’s masterpiece for a limited seating, 100-person dinner. The celebratory evening features an experimental summer feast envisioned by Michelin-star chef Minh Phan, alongside welcome drinks by Aplós and Kikori. Last year, Minh Phan's restaurant Phenakite was named LA Time's Restaurant of the Year for her bold vision and heartfelt cooking.
Chef Phan's dinner celebrates the concept of 'good fire,' complimenting Schindler's own concept of architecture connecting earth with hearth. Envisioning fire as both a practice of cultural stewardship and ecological necessity, Minh's multi-course tasting menu tells an epic story about food's connections to the ecologies and eons they embody.
about the chef
Minh Phan is founder, chef and artist at PHENAKITE Restaurant, porridge + puffs, and PKite Studio, a multi-disciplinary studio. Her most recent project PHENAKITE was awarded a Michelin Star, shortlisted for a James Beard award, and named 2021 LA Times Restaurant of the Year. A rare mineral that forms into gems under extreme pressure and conditions, the namesake PHENAKITE reminds us that food is beyond animal and plants, taking into account terroir, minerals, and the exchange of energy between earth and atmosphere as well as eons and epochs of stories.
CENTENNIAL COUNCIL
The Centennial Council is the MAK Center’s philanthropic leadership group that develops and contributes resources vital to the MAK Center’s programming and mission. More info.
Barbara Bestor
Bianca Chen
John Chan
Sue Chan
Frank Escher
Priscilla Fraser
Ilana Gafni
Heidi Korsavong
Max Kuo
Andrea Lenardin-Madden
Dominic Leong
Kimberli Meyer
Brendan Ravenhill
Andrew Romano
Natasha Sandmeier
Pamela Shamshiri
Michael Volk
Kulapat Yantrasat
BENEFIT PLANNING COMMITTEE
Bianca Chen
Jia Yi Gu
Heidi Korsavong
Kimberli Meyer
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Exhibition
SCHINDLER HOUSE: 100 YEARS IN THE MAKING
May 28, 2022-September 25, 2022
The Centennial Benefit Dinner is generously sponsored by West Elm, the Austrian Consulate General of Los Angeles, Bestor Architecture, EscherGuneWardena Architecture, Kikori Rice Whiskey, Montalba Architects, and Warren Techentin Architecture.