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    Good Food

    Design for Dining

    Restaurant architect Stephen Francis Jones tackles noise levels and comfort when designing for dining. Jones, whose  architectural firm is SFJones in Marina del Rey, is the former in-house architect at Wolfgang Puck Food Company. He designed the new Kumo restaurant on Melrose Ave.

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    By Evan Kleiman • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    Restaurant architect Stephen Francis Jones tackles noise levels and comfort when designing for dining. Jones, whose architectural firm is SFJones in Marina del Rey, is the former in-house architect at Wolfgang Puck Food Company. He designed the new Kumo restaurant on Melrose Ave. (The word kumo means "cloud" in Japanese.)

    Jones also designed Typhoon at the Santa Monica Airport.

    The full episode

    5 of 8
    LA Burrito Project; Restaurant Architecture; Banana Leaves
    1. 0:00The Market Report
    2. 7:31Khun Dom
    3. 12:26Cooking Lessons with Bob
    4. 20:51Coffee Roasting
    5. 28:10Design for DiningYou’re reading this
    6. 35:51LA Burrito Project
    7. 42:34Banana Leaves
    8. 50:51Absinthe
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      Evan Kleiman

      host 'Good Food'

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      Bob Carlson

      host and producer, 'UnFictional'

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      Jennifer Ferro

      Jennifer Ferro, President, KCRW, Los Angeles

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      Thea Chaloner

      Supervising Producer, Good Food

      CultureFood & Drink

    The full episode

    5 of 8
    LA Burrito Project; Restaurant Architecture; Banana Leaves
    1. 0:00The Market Report
    2. 7:31Khun Dom
    3. 12:26Cooking Lessons with Bob
    4. 20:51Coffee Roasting
    5. 28:10Design for DiningYou’re reading this
    6. 35:51LA Burrito Project
    7. 42:34Banana Leaves
    8. 50:51Absinthe
    Back to Good Food