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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.

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    Evan Kleiman

    host 'Good Food'

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    host and producer, 'UnFictional'

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    Jennifer Ferro, President, KCRW, Los Angeles

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