Elizabeth Paige Smith, a Los Angeles furniture designer, typifies the trend there for extreme minimalism softened by a lighthearted use of recycled materials. Her Cube pedestals (far left) are made of end-cut balsa wood found in what she called a ''high-tech junkyard'' used by the aerospace industry. Ms. Smith bent a beefy slab of birch plywood -- Arnold meets Aalto -- for a lounge chair (left). The pieces will furnish Pagani, a new restaurant in the former Morton's in West Hollywood, a reno...
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