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The Basics

About eight miles from Hollywood, the independent municipality of Culver City was once a Technicolor crucible of moviemaking. In 1939 on the MGM Studios lot (currently Sony Pictures Studios), Judy Garland followed the Yellow Brick Road in “The Wizard of Oz,” while down the street at Culver Studios, David O. Selznick was filming “Gone with the Wind.” Two years later found Orson Welles plumping the pillows in a bungalow while shooting “Citizen Kane.”

Fast forward to today, when the new content barons of the 21st century have come calling. Amazon has leased 580,000 square feet of the former Culver Studios space for its Amazon Studios division; across the street, Apple has taken 128,000 square feet of office space. The Palihotel Culver City opened in January, and is managed by the Palisociety group , a boutique chain that includes locations in Santa Monica, and on Melrose Avenue and Westwood Village in Los Angeles. The founder, Avi Brosh, says that each of the hotels reflects the mood of the immediate neighborhood.

At the 49-room Palihotel Culver City, the developers have retained the building’s Art Deco bones and its glowing red “HOTEL WEST END” rooftop sign, left over from a previous incarnation. An exterior wall, designed by the multidisciplinary artist Dana Carly, has been painted in a floral profusion, resembling something the late interior designer Mark Hampton might have thrown on the wall in Brooke Astor’s bathroom. In the lobby, a pewter loving cup brims with bright yellow tennis balls, a nod to Mr. Brosh’s passion for the game. (There is no tennis court.)