At Sea Wellness Spa our goal is to bring you the most advanced products so you can achieve maximum results. See your skin transform with the HydraFacial machine that works to cleanse, exfoliate, extract and hydrate all while nourishing with antioxidants, peptides, and Hyaluronic acid.

Relax in our soothing treatment rooms and let this revolutionary, non-invasive system deliver instant results with zero discomfort or downtime. The HydraFacial’s ability to perform multiple treatments will cover all the bases and leave you glowing inside and out!

Be sure to book an appointment during June to receive our special introductory price of $145.00.You’re friends are sure to ask what your secret is. Tell them you’ve decided to live well, Casa del Mar style!

Want to WIN a Chance to Live Well?

Enter our Live Well Again Sweepstakes for a chance to win a Two Night Stay in an Ocean View Room at Casa del Mar. Just go to facebook.com/casadelmar, click the "Living Well Sweeps" tab, choose a favorite video and tell us why!

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Contest ends June 27, 2011

Ready for your chance to live well? Go to http://on.fb.me/iPpQGF and vote for your favorite way to live well. It’s that simple!  Are you beachy, timeless, flexible or just plain knotty? (Watch and you’ll know what we mean)!

At Casa del Mar, living well is our mantra, and we are picking three lucky winners on June 27th so they can live well. The grand prize will be a relaxing two night stay where you can indulge in the serenity of sweeping ocean views. Two runners up will eat fresh and healthy foods in our restaurant Catch, or de-stress with calming and restorative spa treatments.

In addition to entering, you will discover celebrity secrets to younger looking skin, the best workout to get bikini ready, and much more!  Just watch, vote, and you could win! Come on in to Casa del Mar's Sea Wellness Spa and live well again!

For a limited time, book a Natura Bissé

Diamond Experience Multi-Sensorial Lifting

 (Special introductory price $210 during June. Orig. price $250)

-OR-

La Alternativa Facial

(Special introductory price $150 during June. Orig. price $190)

-OR-

Purchase $450 of NATURA BISSÉ products

…and receive this complimentary Natura Bissé travel kit!

Valued at $250.00

Want to have a chance to live well?

Enter our Live Well Again Sweepstakes for a chance to win a Two Night Stay in an Ocean View Room at Casa del Mar. Just enter at facebook.com/casadelmar, choose your favorite video, and tell us why!

Watch. Vote. Share

Sea Wellness Spa at Hotel Casa Del Mar is the only spa in Los Angeles to feature Natura Bisse.

See below for the entire menu of NATURA BISSÉ treatments with *special introductory prices during the month of June!

Diamond Experience Multi-Sensorial Lift
This treatment reinforces the natural system of defense of the skin. It maintains a long lasting hydration and improves the elasticity and the cutaneous tone. It has an anti-stress action and it gives back the natural brightness to the skin. It acts more in the surface for a lifting effect.
90 Minutes / $250.00 
*Special Introductory Price: $210.00 during June


La Alternativa 
Using NATURA BISSÉ’s exclusive INHIBIT COLLECTION known to dramatically reduce expression lines and wrinkles, this treatment will leave the face smooth and rejuvenated. INHIBIT is the first antiwrinkle treatment formulated with NATURA BISSÉ’s own Octamioxyl ingredient, which is the most effective inhibitor of facial contractions, and a Lipofiller complex to fill existing deep wrinkles and expression lines.
90 Minutes / $190.00 
*Special Introductory Price: $150.00 during June


The Cure Therapy
Enzymatic Detoxifying Cure with Extractions
60 Minutes / $160.00 
*Special Introductory Price: $130.00 during June


Gents Facial
Time for men skincare
60 Minutes / $160.00 
*Special Introductory Price: $130.00 during June


Citrus-A-Peel
Give it a boost of energy with 100% pure Vitamin C.  
60 Minutes / $160.00 
*Special Introductory Price: $130.00 during June


Age-Defying Face
The Age-Defying Face is all about active ingredients to zero-in on these stubborn skin’s of aging.
60 Minutes / $160.00 
*Special Introductory Price: $130.00 during June


Age-Defying Lip & Eye
 An intensive repair treatment formulated to restore firmness around the delicate eye and lip areas.
30 Minutes / $100.00 
*Special Introductory Price: $80.00 during June

Diamond Magnetic Body Ritual
An incomparable and luxurious experience that purifies body and mind.
90 Minutes / $230.00 
*Special Introductory Price: $190.00 during June


Citrus Drench
An ideal body treatment for skin that has been damaged by the sun or by free radicals in our environment.  
60 Minutes / $180.00 
*Special Introductory Price: $150.00 during June


Neuro-Aroma Massage
A journey of sensations
90 / 60 Minutes / $220.00 / $160.00

Step into Hotel Casa del Mar's lobby from January 26 through April 20, and see the world through Ken Solomon's encompassing eyes, raising issues of identity and appropriation on a canvas of the internet. The Santa Monica hotel has collaborated with curator Cynthia Greenwald to stage the show as part of their Live Well Again Artist Series. 

Introspective, eye-opening and often humorous, his work brings a tangibility to the fleeting modern world.  A preservationist of sorts, Solomon paints web pages. That's right, and it's like nothing you've seen before -  (unless you've been to one of his celebrated exhibits in New York). 

As issues of cyber identity and privacy move further to the forefront of the western news cycle, Solomon’s Facebook-inspired Kenneth Solomon series provides playful yet poignant commentary.  Solomon paints the Facebook profiles of homonymously named users. He says that he sees the performative work as a “collaborative self-portrait.”

Solomon’s new paintings are detailed, reconstructed snapshots of the ever-changing internet in an attempt to slow down the constant flow of information on the web. When asked why he paints web pages, Solomon explains, "... if it's done by hand, they're going to look at it from a different perspective." 

A group of Google Portraits are fossils of digital information, as they translate the results of Google image searches into watercolor.  "I feel like the Google image search is sort of our contemporary dictionary," he adds.  

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In his video work, Ken Solomon further hones in on this sense of play. Blew Line is a series of still photographs, all with an ever-present horizontal red line. This is no case of Photoshop. Solomon actually shot all these photos, which match up seamlessly while transitioning with a horizontal wipe.

In another video, Melt Down, (seen below), the viewer is met at first with only blackness. Slowly, three flames reveal themselves, and you'll have to watch for the implied "ah-ha!" moment. 

The works on display are available for sale. Additionally, Solomon will be available for commissioned Facebook and Google Search paintings throughout the show's duration.

For more information visit Ken Solomon's website.

Born in Washington DC, Ken Solomon lives and works in Brooklyn. His work has been included in various exhibitions the United States. His video Micro & Soft on Macintosh Apple (a collaboration with Marco Maggi) was on view at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Several of his drawings are also included in MoMA’s permanent collection. Recent exhibitions include:  NeoIntegrity: Comics Edition, at The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, New York (2010); WALL ROCKETS: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, Curated by Lisa Dennison, FLAG Art Foundation, New York (traveled to the Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY) (2009/2008); Lightcone, Nettie Horn Gallery, London (2009); American Ream, Warehouse Gallery at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY (2009); Slow Scandal, Point of Contact Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY (2009).

Casa’s lobby has recently undergone a transformation at the hands of celebrated artist Shingo Francis. Two exclusive pieces and several others are part of the hotel’s Live Well Again Art and Events Series, on exhibit between September 15 and November 30.

It’s hard to miss Francis’ Variant Color piece, commissioned by Casa, from both Ocean Front Walk and inside the lobby. When sunlight hits the colored translucent circles affixed to the veranda windows, ambient, colored light instantly filters through the room. Francis likens the effect to painting with water colors.

Another Casa exclusive, Glass Theater (in collaboration with artist Felicia Page), is showcased on the mirror at the top of the north lobby staircase. Using Iromizu^©, a polyvinyl material available solely in Japan, Shingo demonstrates his unique creative process by applying cut-out sections to glass, which makes each installation one-of-a-kind. 

Shingo's Lantern series consists of enormous, color-blocked painted lanterns hanging from the lobby ceiling. According to Francis, the lanterns represent ideas such as the “inner, outer, the unknown, the known and our daily lives.”

Francis says his pieces are inspired by his own beachside childhood in Santa Monica as well as the memory of the hotel’s past as a sanctuary for healing.

“I was really inspired by the history of Casa del Mar and all of its past lives as a place of wellness and restoration,” said Francis. “I am equally awed by its gorgeous view of the horizon  — something that is central to many of my paintings.”

Shingo Francis was born in Santa Monica, California, in 1969. At the age of three, he moved to Japan and lived there until the age of 13, at which point he returned to the US and earned a bachelor’s degree in 1992 from Pitzer College in Claremont, California. In 2001, he returned to Japan, where he currently resides.

He has been met with continued success throughout his career. Most recently, he was selected as a Solo Project artist by Tsutomu Mizusawa for ARCO 08 in Madrid, Spain, and has also been invited as an artist-in-residence at Art Omi in upstate New York and Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, California.

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Molly Ringwald performed for a packed house on Thursday July 29th in Casa's Lobby Lounge. Watch here as she performed "Just You, Just Me" from the 1929 musical Marianne.

Imagine Billie Holiday playing ukulele under a palm-thatched hut in 1930's Waikiki and you'll get a taste of the soothing sound of Leftover Cuties.  A delicate mix of sultry crooning, tender melodies, and bittersweet lyrics, Leftover Cuties harkens back to a simpler age when music was as likely to come from a soup-line or a smoke filled speakeasy as it was from a recording studio. Now their tunes are drawing quite a crowd in Casa's Lobby Lounge.

The Cuties played their first show at The Hotel Cafe in late 2008 to a packed house, followed by the release of their debut EP "Game Called Life" in early 2009. Since, the Cuties have filmed their first music video for the title track “Game Called Life,” have played over 90 shows in the L.A area and are already hard at work on their forthcoming full length album.

Above: "Game Called Life" official music video used as the theme for the Showtime Original Series "The Big C" starring Laura Linney. Premieres August 16th! 

The Leftover Cuties are: 

Shirli McAllen - Lead Singer / Songwriter

Austin Nicholsen - Ukulele / Songwriter

Stuart Johnson - Drums / Birds

Ryan Feves - Upright Bass

Catch Venice's own Leftover Cuties live in the Lobby Lounge every Friday night at 7 p.m. starting August 13th. 

As part of Hotel Casa del Mar’s “Live Well Again” artist series, Molly Ringwald is taking the stage in the Lobby Lounge for an intimate performance and meet and greet. The eminently talented actress/singer/writer, currently starring in “The Secret Life of the American Teenager” and author of the bestseller Getting the Pretty Back, will be crooning the jazz standards that have put her on the map as an accomplished musician. 

Enjoy an intimate performance with this American icon while sipping a Pretty in Pink cocktail overlooking the elegant Santa Monica coastline. 

Join us Thursday July 29 at 7:30 p.m. for this unforgettable event. 

Table reservations are required and may be arranged by calling: 1-800-898-6999

For more information on Molly, visit her blog here. 

2010 will be a summer to remember. The L.A. County Lifeguard towers have transformed into a vibrant statement of unity and hope - and Hotel Casa del Mar is giving you a once in a lifetime opportunity to experience L.A.'s most colorful and philanthropic public art exhibit up close. The "Summer of Color Package" is available June 15 - August 30 and includes: 

• Five nights in an Oceanview Penthouse overlooking the Summer of Color towers

• You'll meet Ed Massey - the artist and activist behind the Summer of Color exhibition. You'll receive a private tour of his collection at Casa del Mar and hear about his transformation of the lifeguard towers first hand.

• Two pool deck cabana massages from Sea Wellness Spa

• A daily "How many towers can you take?" cardio workout with a private trainer

• A candlelit, private dinner for two on the bow of the pool deck overlooking Santa Monica Bay

• One of only 180 limited edition L.A. County Lifeguard Summer of Color prints

An incredible value at just $7,700. For more information and to book this offer please call 310.581.5533, or 800.898.6999.

Ed Massey's exclusive exhibit in Casa's lobby has been extended until August 31 and the lifeguard towers are decorated for summer through the end of September.

Interesting Fact:
After the exhibition, the Portraits of Hope art panels will be donated to the participating institutions and to social service agencies around the world for the beautification of interior and exterior settings. Many of the panels will be shipped to Haiti for transitional homes, temporary shelters, schools, hospitals, and senior centers. This action replicates the process in which thousands of Garden in Transit panels from New York City were utilized in New Orleans after Katrina for transitional homes, school buildings, and government structures.

In the Fall, the lifeguard tower rails and cross beams will get a fresh coat of paint compliments of UCLA’s freshman class and volunteers from Starbucks and from greater L.A.

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