The Lux site incorporates a selection of installations originally commissioned as a “museum without walls” while the permanent facility was still being planned.

Home is a grouping of brick furniture completed in 2001 by Turkish artist Ali Acerol. The chairs, stools and ottomans of the piece confront us with the paradox of hardened construction materials shaped and worn down to a texture that resembles fine lace and soft padding.

Garden of Apple Delights, a triangular orchard on the Lux hillside, was designed by Los Angeles landscape painter Astrid Preston. Since being planted in 2003, the fifteen Anna Apple trees—the only apple trees that will grow in California’s coastal climate—have regularly borne fruit and now adorn the pathway to the Lux entrance.