Four Seasons Hotel Westlake Village Collaborates With Stationery Designer Soolip to Offer Spring 2025 Artistic Workshops
This spring, paper design studio Soolip will host a series of artistic workshops at Four Seasons Hotel Westlake Village.
If you’re looking for a new way to get your creative juices flowing and develop artistic skills, Four Seasons Hotel Westlake Village just announced a special collaboration with globally-recognize stationery designer and paper studio Soolip. Throughout Spring 2025, the artistic workshops will be hosted inside the hotel’s greenhouse and are available to hotel guests and the public.
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Each class will inspired one’s inner creative with guided demonstrations and workshops focused on the art of living with mindfulness, creativity, and paper. The cost per class is $245 and includes expert instruction, materials, light bites, and beverages.
Tickets also include complimentary self-parking and day-access to The Cove, the hotel’s award-winning pool destination.
Classes will inspire one’s inner creative by focusing on the art of living with mindfulness, creativity, and paper.
Soolip was founded by Wanda Wen and is an artisanal supplier that is a favorite among celebrities and trendsetters. It is synonymous with inspired design that blends the modern with the handcrafted, providing a sophisticated style of gracious living, rooted in simplicity that is eco-conscious and joyful.
Based in Los Angeles, the company is made up of a team of visionaries who bring their unique perspectives, creativity, and expertise to everything Soolip does. They offer various events, workshops, and retreats that are designed to nurture and encourage creativity in others. View their list of offerings here.
On May 10, Soolip will host a stationery and card making class using handmade papers and elements from nature.
The Soolip x Four Seasons Hotel Westlake Village 2025 Spring Schedule is as follows:
Wildflower Alchemy: Hand-Dyed Scarves & Textiles with Natural Inks (Saturday March 22, 9.am. to Noon). Led by Waldorf educator and author Mona Lewis, this class guides guests through extracting colours from wildflowers, and further inspires the inner scientist by introducing the use of natural modifiers to nuance both subtle and intense variations of the base colours. Once a rainbow of colours is created, participants will learn how to prepare silk fabric with a mordant enabling the plant-origin colour to adhere to the fibres. Students will then dive into the magic of colour dying both a wearable silk scarf and a silk velvet patch to use as object d’art for the home, or create a unique card for correspondence.
Ink Play (Saturday April 26, 9 a.m. to Noon). German artist Mariken van Heugten takes guests by the hand and heart as teaches about the fascinating world of ink, using nature, its shapes, and ethereal organic movement as inspiration. Ink, as a medium, invites a playful, intuitive, and meditative approach to drawing and painting. Guests will enjoy the process of experimenting with ink; discover the many new properties about the materials used, and how to engage with them; and create several small size artworks.
Paper Play: Stationery & Card Making with Wanda Wen (Saturday May 10, 9 a.m. to Noon). This journey into the art of creating personalized stationery uses handmade papers and elements from nature. Participants will explore a variety of creative supplies, including pressed flowers, wax sealing, vintage postage stamps, and printed matter to design unique and beautiful stationery pieces. Guided by Wanda Wen, a life-time paper and nature lover herself, attendees will be inspired to create pieces that are a true reflection of their individual style. By the end of the workshop, each attendee will have a collection of personalized note cards (10 pieces) and gift tags (10 pieces) for social use throughout the year. Additionally, each participant will receive a J. Herbin Fountain Pen with two ink colours to add to the 20-piece stationery collection, housed in an attractive keepsake archival linen storage box.
On April 26, German artist Mariken van Heugten will take participants into the fascinating world of ink as a medium.
To learn more about Soolip and upcoming workshops, visit their website. For more information about Four Seasons Westlake Village, visit their website and follow on Instagram: @fswestlake
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