Best Los Angeles Souvenirs: What to Bring Home That's Actually LA

The best Los Angeles souvenirs are almost impossible to find, and that is not a metaphor. It is a literal description of a city whose souvenir economy has decided, against all available evidence, that the right way to represent Los Angeles is with a plastic Oscar statuette, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star keychain, and a t-shirt that says "Hollywood" in the same font as the sign above Beachwood Canyon. None of these objects represent the city that Angelenos actually live in. They represent the version of Los Angeles that exists in the mind of a tourist who has never been to Los Angeles, which is a population the souvenir shops have decided is their only paying customer.

This guide is for the rest of us. The tourist who spent a week in LA, drove the canyons, ate at Grand Central Market, sat through traffic on the 10, and now wants to bring home something that says LA without lying about it. The expat sending a piece of the city to a friend back in the Midwest. The local sending a piece of home to family who have never visited and who would otherwise form their impression of LA from the airport gift shop, which would be a tragedy. The advice for all three converges on a single category and a few honest runners-up. We will name them.

We make a Los Angeles skyline sculpture, so we have a position in this race. We will declare it and we will rank our own product first, on merits we will explain. We will also be fair to the nine objects that compete with it, because the alternative is to pretend the field is empty, and it is not.

Why LA Souvenirs Are Uniquely Bad

Every major American city has a bad souvenir economy. New York has the I Heart NY t-shirt. Chicago has the deep dish pizza keychain. San Francisco has the cable car snow globe. These are all bad in the same way: they are cheap, generic, and disposable. Los Angeles is bad in a different way, and the difference is worth naming.

The Los Angeles souvenir economy is not bad because it produces cheap objects. It is bad because it produces objects that depict a city that does not exist.

Walk into a souvenir shop on Hollywood Boulevard. The inventory is roughly this: miniature Oscar statuettes in three sizes, Walk of Fame star replicas with names of celebrities the buyer has chosen, t-shirts with "Hollywood" in twelve fonts, baseball caps with palm trees stitched on the front, license plate frames that say "California Dreamin'," refrigerator magnets shaped like sunglasses, snow globes containing a tiny Hollywood sign with white plastic flakes that are supposed to be palm leaves or possibly snow, and an array of celebrity-themed merchandise that ranges from polite to legally questionable.

None of this is what Los Angeles is. Los Angeles is a city of four million people spread across five hundred square miles, almost none of whom live in Hollywood, almost none of whom work in the film industry, almost none of whom have any relationship at all with the Walk of Fame except to occasionally drive past it on the way to somewhere else. The actual Angeleno lives in Atwater Village or Mid-City or Mar Vista or Eagle Rock. The actual Angeleno's Saturday morning is at the farmers market in Larchmont, not in front of Mann's Chinese Theatre. The disconnect between the souvenir economy and the city is total.

The Hollywood-themed souvenir is doing something specific. It is selling a tourist a piece of a city the tourist imagined before they got on the plane. The city they imagined was assembled from movies they have seen, magazines they have read, and the marketing apparatus of the entertainment industry, which has spent a hundred years convincing the world that Los Angeles is Hollywood. The souvenir confirms the imagined city. It is, technically, working as designed. It is also lying about Los Angeles.

This is the unique pathology of the LA souvenir market. Not that the objects are cheap. That the objects are about a different city than the one they are sold in.

What an Authentic LA Souvenir Actually Looks Like

The way out of this is to identify what an authentic LA souvenir is. The test is simple. The object should be tied to a real Los Angeles experience that a real Angeleno would recognize, not to a marketing image of the city. The object should be specific. The object should survive the recipient's decade.

Apply that test and the field opens up in a useful way. Grand Central Market downtown is a real LA experience, and the spice blends and small-batch goods sold by its vendors are real artifacts of that experience. The Last Bookstore on Spring Street is a real LA experience, and a signed first edition from their rare books section is a real artifact. Heath Ceramics, with the original Sausalito factory but a serious LA presence in the Pasadena and Hollywood showrooms, makes real objects that real Angelenos use. The Hammer Museum in Westwood and MOCA downtown both have stores with prints and editions that read as serious design rather than as souvenirs. Mister's Cocktail Co. makes bitters in Highland Park that go into actual cocktails in actual bars. Wally's Wine in Beverly Hills puts together gift boxes that the right recipient will appreciate as a real wine person's gift. Mr. Bones Pumpkin Patch t-shirts, which are technically a Halloween gimmick from a West Hollywood lot, have become a real LA in-joke that people who grew up here recognize. In-N-Out t-shirts are the universal LA souvenir that everyone secretly respects.

And then there is the downtown skyline, which is the most LA artifact of all, for a reason we will get to.

The list of authentic LA souvenirs is short. The list of inauthentic ones is enormous. Most of what is sold to tourists is in the second category. The point of this guide is to map the first.

What Counts as a Real Los Angeles Souvenir

For the purposes of ranking, a Los Angeles souvenir has to clear four bars.

It has to be specific to Los Angeles, not to the marketing version of Los Angeles. A Hollywood star is not specific to LA in any meaningful sense. It is specific to a tourist's idea of LA. A Heath Ceramics mug from the Pasadena showroom is specific to LA in the sense that it comes out of a real LA design ecosystem and a real LA retail location, even though Heath's roots are in Sausalito.

It has to be durable. A consumable can be a gift but not a souvenir. The popcorn finishes. The skyline does not.

It has to be displayable. A forty-five-year-old with an actual living room should be able to put the object on a shelf without apologizing. Most Hollywood souvenirs fail this test in three seconds.

It has to be connected to an actual LA experience. The recipient should be able to point at it and tell a story that is not about a movie they have seen. The story should be about a place they went, a meal they ate, a person they met, a building they saw.

With those bars, here are the ten best Los Angeles souvenirs, ranked.

Ten Premium Los Angeles Souvenirs, Ranked

1. The Hand-Printed Los Angeles Skyline by City Skyline Decor

We are going to be honest about the bias and then make the argument on the merits.

The Los Angeles skyline is a 3D-printed sculpture in matte black with brushed gold lettering on the base reading LOS ANGELES. The Small is seven and a half inches across at thirty-nine dollars. The Medium is seven and a half inches at sixty-nine. The Large is nine inches at one hundred twenty-nine. Each piece is hand-finished in our Chicago workshop and ships within three to five business days.

The buildings on the model are the downtown LA towers, which we have written about in detail in our Los Angeles skyline buildings guide. The Wilshire Grand with its crown and spire. The US Bank Tower, which was Library Tower before it was US Bank Tower. The Aon Center as the plain dark slab. The Gas Company Tower with its glass top. The Bank of America Plaza, the Two California Plaza, the Westin Bonaventure with its cylindrical mirrored shape. The downtown core, in matte black profile, sized for a shelf.

This is the strongest LA souvenir on the market for a reason that is structurally important and that we will defend in its own section below. The short version: downtown LA is the only part of LA that looks like a city. Everything else is sprawl. The skyline is the city's only urban frame, and a model of it is the only LA object that visually announces "Los Angeles" without resorting to a palm tree or a Hollywood sign.

The piece lives on a shelf forever. It survives moves. It is made to order. It does not spoil. It does not embarrass. It arrives gift-ready in a corrugated mailer with a foam insert, no wrapping required.

The rest of the list is real and we will be fair to it. None of it does what the skyline does.

2. MOCA and Hammer Museum Prints

The Museum of Contemporary Art downtown and the Hammer Museum in Westwood both run gift shops that punch far above the standard museum store. MOCA's shop carries limited-edition prints from artists in the permanent collection. The Hammer, which is structurally part of UCLA, runs a stronger-than-average roster of editions and artist books tied to current exhibitions.

A signed print or limited edition from either of these shops is a real piece of art that happens to be a piece of LA. It frames well. It reads as serious. It has provenance the recipient can name. The price range is wide, typically eighty dollars at the entry level and into the thousands for the rare editions.

The catch is the same as with the MoMA Design Store in New York. The recipient's taste has to align with the artist or the museum's curatorial direction. If you know your recipient's design language, this is one of the best LA souvenirs you can buy. If you do not, the print sits in a closet.

Verdict: outstanding for the art-aware recipient. Niche but genuine.

3. Heath Ceramics From the Pasadena or Hollywood Showroom

Heath Ceramics is, strictly speaking, a Sausalito company. The flagship factory is in the Bay Area. But Heath has invested seriously in Los Angeles, with showrooms in Pasadena and on Beverly Boulevard in Hollywood that are part of the LA design ecosystem in a way that matters. A Heath mug, plate, or vase purchased from either showroom reads as LA because it is part of the LA experience of buying it.

The objects themselves are excellent. Mid-century ceramic forms in glazes that have aged into a kind of regional canon. A Heath piece is the kind of object that ends up on the table of a serious LA dinner party and that the guests recognize without needing the maker's mark explained.

The price band starts around forty dollars for small pieces and goes well above the skyline for the large vases.

Verdict: top-tier for the design-aware recipient. Pair with the skyline for the full design statement.

4. The Last Bookstore Signed First Editions

The Last Bookstore on Fifth and Spring is the largest used and new bookstore in California and the most photographed bookstore in Los Angeles for the simple reason that it is also one of the most photogenic. The book tunnel and the second-floor labyrinth get the Instagram traffic. The serious souvenir is upstairs in the rare books section, where signed first editions and small-press LA-related books are shelved at prices that are, by LA standards, reasonable.

A signed first edition of a Joan Didion essay collection, a Mike Davis history, a Charles Bukowski poetry book, an Eve Babitz novel, or any of the small-press LA writers worth knowing is a real LA souvenir. It is durable. It is specific. It reads as a literary gift rather than a tourist purchase.

The downside, as with the Strand in New York, is that you need to know the recipient's reading life precisely enough to choose well. If you can, this is the second-best LA souvenir on the list.

Verdict: excellent for the reader whose taste you know.

5. Grand Central Market Spice Blends and Small-Batch Goods

Grand Central Market on Broadway downtown has been operating since 1917 and is the closest thing LA has to a real public market. The stall mix has rotated heavily over the past decade as the market has gentrified, but several of the long-running vendors and the better newer ones sell packaged goods that travel.

Specifically, the spice blends, hot sauces, and small-batch jams from the rotating cast of vendors are real LA artifacts that survive a trip home and last in a recipient's kitchen for months. The market itself is the experience. The packaged goods are the receipt.

These are partially perishable, so they fail the strict keepsake test, but they pass the gift test cleanly. Pair them with a Medium skyline and the package becomes complete: the consumable for the present moment, the sculpture for the next thirty years.

Verdict: strong supporting gift. Not a primary souvenir on its own.

6. Mister's Cocktail Co. Bitters and Cocktail Goods

Mister's, out of Highland Park, makes bitters, syrups, and cocktail ingredients that show up behind the bar at serious LA cocktail programs. A two-bottle gift pack of Mister's bitters is a real LA souvenir for the cocktail-aware recipient and it sits in the price band where serious gifts live without becoming serious investments.

The category is small. There are maybe four or five LA-based cocktail product companies whose output is worth bringing home. Mister's is the cleanest example because the packaging is restrained, the product is good, and the recipient who knows LA's cocktail scene will recognize it.

Verdict: excellent for the bartender-recipient. Niche but lands hard.

7. Vintage CicLAvia Posters

CicLAvia is the citywide open-streets event that has, over the past fifteen years, become one of the only mass civic experiences in Los Angeles that an actual cross-section of the city participates in. The posters from past events, designed by rotating local artists, capture neighborhoods and routes in a way that is specific to LA in a way most LA souvenirs are not. They show streets without cars. They show Angelenos on bicycles. They show the actual city in a registered, archival form.

Vintage CicLAvia posters circulate on resale sites and at occasional pop-up sales. Framed, they earn wall space in a real LA home.

Verdict: niche but genuine. For the Angeleno recipient who knows what CicLAvia is.

8. In-N-Out Tees and Branded Goods

In-N-Out merchandise is one of the few universally loved LA gifts and the only fast food merch on this list that we are taking seriously. The reason is that In-N-Out is one of the rare things that is simultaneously a tourist experience and a real Angeleno experience. The line outside the Hollywood location at midnight has both populations in it. The t-shirts, hats, and printed paper hats from the official store at the Baldwin Park location read as authentic because the brand is authentic.

A vintage In-N-Out tee for a friend who grew up in LA but lives elsewhere is one of the best low-budget gifts in the city. It registers as care. It registers as memory. It does not pretend to be anything other than what it is.

Verdict: excellent low-budget gift. Pair with a skyline for the full statement.

9. The Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Replica

We are including this because it is structurally the most iconic LA souvenir, and we have an obligation to address it honestly.

The Walk of Fame star replica, sold in every souvenir shop on Hollywood Boulevard at prices ranging from ten to thirty dollars depending on size and material, is the LA souvenir that the tourist economy has decided represents Los Angeles. It is also, by the standards of this guide, mostly junk. The plastic versions are flimsy, the resin versions are cheap, the gold paint chips, and the personalized name engraving reads as a gimmick rather than a tribute.

There is exactly one use case where this object earns its place. A child who has saved their own money to buy a souvenir from a Hollywood trip will treasure a Walk of Fame star with their own name on it for years. It is not an adult's souvenir. It is a child's souvenir. As a child's souvenir, it works.

For any other use case, skip it.

Verdict: iconic but mostly junk. Suitable for children only. Not a serious gift.

10. Mr. Bones Pumpkin Patch Tees

Mr. Bones is the Halloween pumpkin patch that sets up every October on the Culver City and West Hollywood lots and has become, over thirty years, one of the strange beloved LA traditions that Angelenos teach their kids. A Mr. Bones t-shirt, in a city full of irony-laden t-shirts, has earned its place by surviving long enough to become sincere.

The shirts are sold at the patch itself in October and circulate on resale sites the rest of the year. For an Angeleno recipient who grew up taking their kids to Mr. Bones, the shirt lands. For anyone else, it reads as random.

Verdict: niche, sentimental, and earned. For LA natives only.

Why the Skyline Outranks Everything Else on This List

We said we would defend the ranking. Here is the argument.

The other nine objects on this list are real LA souvenirs in the strict sense. Several of them are better gifts than the skyline for specific recipients. A signed Joan Didion first edition for a reader whose taste you know is a more personal gift than the skyline. A Heath Ceramics vase for a design-aware recipient is a more refined gift than the skyline. A vintage In-N-Out tee for a homesick Angeleno is a more emotionally direct gift than the skyline.

None of them does what the skyline does, which is to render the part of LA that actually looks like a city in three dimensions on a shelf.

This is the structural point. Most of Los Angeles, geographically, is sprawl. The city's identity as the great American urban anti-city is real. Tract houses, strip malls, freeways, low-rise neighborhoods, hills, the ocean. A model of any of that is not coherent. You cannot put the Westside on a shelf. You cannot put the 405 on a mantel. You cannot put Silver Lake in a corrugated mailer.

Downtown LA is the only part of LA that has urban form in the conventional sense. The towers cluster. The streets have a grid. The Wilshire Grand crowns the skyline at a height that finally, in 2017, made Los Angeles a city with a real tall building. Standing on a hillside in Echo Park and looking at the downtown towers in the distance is one of the few experiences of LA that registers as "city" in the way a New Yorker or Chicagoan understands the word. The downtown skyline is the city's only true urban frame.

A model of that skyline is therefore the rare LA object that says "Los Angeles" without invoking Hollywood. It is not the marketing version of LA. It is the geographic and architectural fact of LA. It is what you see from Griffith Observatory at sunset. It is what you see from the Hollywood Hills when the smog clears. It is what you see when you fly into LAX at night.

The skyline is also the only object on this list that is the city itself rather than something the city sells. The Heath vase is a vase the city sells. The Didion first edition is a book the city sells. The In-N-Out tee is a t-shirt the city sells. The skyline is what the city looks like, in physical form, sized to fit on a shelf.

It is made in Chicago, which we will acknowledge directly. We hand-print and finish each piece in our workshop. The skyline is not made in LA. But the depicted object is the LA downtown core, which is what the recipient sees and what the recipient associates with the gift. The same logic applies to a Chicago souvenir made in Vietnam or a New York print made in North Carolina. The point of the object is what it depicts.

It ships in three to five business days. It does not spoil. It does not chip. It does not require framing. It does not require a second purchase to make sense.

This is why we rank it first.

What to Bring Home for Whom

Different buyers, different recipients, different sizes. Here is the practical guide.

For the Tourist Bringing Something Home From a Trip

The Small at thirty-nine dollars. The piece fits in a carry-on and ends up on a desk back home. The Small is small enough that it does not commit a room to the trip but large enough to read as Los Angeles at a glance.

Tourists frequently make the mistake of buying ten small souvenirs in the first three days of a trip and then realizing on day six that they have nothing serious to bring home. The fix is to skip the airport gift shop entirely and order a Small from us during or after the trip. We ship to the home address. The trip stays with you. The tracking number arrives the day you land.

If the tourist also wants a consumable, a jar of hot sauce from Grand Central Market or a small bag of Hollywood-adjacent coffee from a roaster like Verve or G&B works as the receipt of the trip. The Small is the keepsake. The hot sauce is the dinner story.

For the Expat Sending a Gift to a Friend Back in the Midwest

The Medium at sixty-nine dollars. The expat-to-Midwest direction is one of our most common shipping patterns for the Los Angeles model. The story is usually this. An Angeleno has a friend back home in Ohio or Indiana or Wisconsin who has never been to LA and is curious about it. The Angeleno wants to send something that depicts the actual LA rather than the LA the friend imagines from movies.

The Medium is the right size for this. It reads from across a room. It anchors a bookshelf. It tells the friend, without lecturing them, that LA is more than the Hollywood sign. It says: I live in a place that has a skyline. Here is what it looks like.

This is the registering-the-actual-city gift, and it is the most common reason people order LA skylines from us.

For the Local Sending a Statement Piece to Family Who Never Visited

The Large at one hundred twenty-nine dollars. The local-to-family direction is the highest-stakes use case for the LA skyline because the family member receiving it has only ever seen LA on television. The gift is doing real interpretive work. It is correcting the family's mental model of where their child or sibling lives.

The Large is the size for that correction. A six inch model on a desk reads as a trinket. A seven and a half inch model on a shelf reads as a memento. A nine inch model on a mantel reads as a statement that the gifter is making about their city and their life there. The Large is the size for the statement.

We have shipped Large LA skylines to parents in small towns in Iowa and Pennsylvania and Texas whose adult children moved to LA fifteen years ago and whose mental image of the city, before the gift arrived, was entirely formed by the news. The parents put the skyline on the mantel. They tell guests their child lives there. They point to the towers. The gift does what no Hollywood-themed souvenir could ever do.

For the Corporate Gift to an LA-Based Client

The Medium at sixty-nine dollars, possibly with custom lettering through our custom orders page. The standard band reading LOS ANGELES can be replaced with the client's firm name, a project name, or an anniversary date. Lead times for custom run around two weeks.

For executive-level recipients, retirement gifts, or major-client anniversaries, step up to the Large. The Medium is the right ceiling for ordinary client gifts.

What to Send Someone Who Loves LA but Never Lived There

A specific category that deserves its own treatment.

The friend who loves visiting LA but has never lived there has a different relationship with the city than the native. For them, LA is a place of trips. Each trip is a memory tied to specific moments: the drive down PCH, the dinner at Bestia, the hike in Runyon Canyon, the night at the Roxy. The souvenir should mark the trips rather than claim an identity the recipient does not have.

The Small at thirty-nine dollars is the right call for this. It is a travel keepsake. It sits on a desk or a bookshelf as a quiet record of the visits. It does not overstate the relationship.

The mistake to avoid is sending a Large to a friend who has never lived in LA. The Large reads as identity. A friend who visits twice a year does not have LA as their identity, and a nine inch sculpture on their mantel will quietly embarrass them. Match the size to the relationship.

If the friend has been to LA five times and clearly loves the city, the Medium is the right escalation. We have customers who keep one Small per major city they visit on a single shelf. The pattern works. It reads as a traveler's life, not a confused identity.

What to Send Someone Who Lived in LA and Left

Different category entirely, with different psychology.

The Angeleno who has moved away has a complicated relationship with the city. Almost no one leaves LA for a single clean reason. People leave for combinations: the cost of housing, the distance from family, the burnout, the wildfires, the traffic, a job offer somewhere quieter. Whatever the combination, the person who leaves is rarely sentimental about it in any way they will admit. They moved for reasons. The reasons were rational. They do not want to be told they made the wrong choice.

So you do not send them a gift that says "you should miss LA." You send them a gift that says LA is part of who they are, and they brought it with them.

The Medium skyline, shipped to their new address a few months after the move, lands in this register. They have unpacked. They have started to develop opinions about the new city. The skyline arrives and they put it on the bookshelf in the new place. They do not announce that they are homesick. They look at it every day for the next fifteen years.

This is the cleanest expat-grief gift we ship for the LA category. The timing matters. Three to six months after the move is the sweet spot. Not before the move, not at the move itself, not on day one in the new city. Wait until the new life has started to form, then send the piece of the old one.

For someone who left LA under difficult circumstances, a fire that destroyed a home, a layoff, a family emergency, hold the gift longer. The skyline is a portrait of identity, not a treatment for trauma. Wait until they are stable. Then send it.

We make a related case in our Los Angeles skyline gift ideas piece, which covers occasion-specific recommendations in more detail.

Sizing for the Los Angeles Souvenir Use Case

We sell three sizes. For LA souvenir use, the matchups are clean.

The Small at seven and a half inches and thirty-nine dollars is for the tourist or the visitor-romance recipient. It fits in a carry-on. It survives the flight. It sits on a desk back home. Tourists who want a serious souvenir but do not want to commit shelf space choose the Small and choose it correctly.

The Medium at seven and a half inches and sixty-nine dollars is for the expat gift. The friend back in the Midwest. The Angeleno who moved to Portland. The cousin who moved to Denver. The Medium reads as a real piece on a shelf rather than a desk toy.

The Large at nine inches and one hundred twenty-nine dollars is for the family statement piece or the local-leaving statement. The mantel size. The "this is where I am from" size. The "my child lives in LA" size for parents in small towns who finally want to see what the city looks like.

If you are debating between two sizes, go up one. Almost nobody regrets the larger skyline. People regret the smaller one when it arrives smaller than they pictured.

We have written more about sizing across all cities in our best skyline gifts guide.

Custom and Personal Options

For weddings, corporate retirement gifts, or other occasions where the standard city-name band on the base is not enough, we offer custom lettering through our custom orders page. The standard band reading LOS ANGELES can be replaced with a couple's names, a wedding date, a project codename, a firm name, or a personal phrase. Lead times for custom orders run around two weeks. Medium size with custom lettering is in the ninety-nine dollar range.

We have shipped custom Los Angeles skylines to law firms commemorating partner retirements, to couples giving wedding gifts to friends who got married at the Greek Theatre or the Ebell of Los Angeles, to children commemorating a parent's milestone birthday, and to production companies celebrating wrap parties. The city is Los Angeles. The lettering is the moment.

Shipping and Carry-On Notes

People often assume the LA skyline is bulkier than it is. It is not. The Small at seven and a half inches weighs roughly eight ounces in its corrugated mailer and fits in a carry-on without taking meaningful space. We have shipped Smalls to customers who picked them up directly from our workshop and carried them home in personal items without issue.

The Medium at seven and a half inches weighs roughly a pound and a half in the mailer and is approximately the size of a small hardcover book. It fits in carry-on luggage and reads as a real package in a checked bag. The Large at nine inches is roughly four pounds and is typically shipped directly to the recipient rather than carried, because it is the right size and weight to warrant its own packaging rather than competing with the rest of the suitcase.

For most LA visitors who buy from us, the right move is to order online during or after the trip and have us ship the piece directly to the home address or the recipient's address. Shipping runs three to five business days within the continental United States. We carry the logistics. The visitor carries home a memory and a tracking number.

This is the structural advantage over physical LA retail. The Heath vase has to be padded in your suitcase. The Last Bookstore first edition has to be carried home in a tote. The MOCA print has to be rolled and protected. The skyline ships from our workshop directly to the destination with no suitcase math at all.

The Right Answer for Each of the Three Readers

For the tourist visiting LA: a Small at thirty-nine dollars. Carry-on size, desk size, real souvenir. The trip stays with you.

For the expat sending something to a friend who has never been to LA: a Medium at sixty-nine dollars. A shelf piece. The actual city, not the imagined one.

For the local sending a statement piece to family in the Midwest: a Large at one hundred twenty-nine dollars. The mantel size. The portrait of where you live.

All three of you are asking the same question, which is how to represent Los Angeles in an object that does not embarrass you and does not lie about the city. The answer is the same shape in three sizes.

The Hollywood Walk of Fame keychain will be there next time. The plastic Oscar will be there next time. The "Hollywood" t-shirt will be there next time. None of them is what LA looks like. The downtown skyline is.

Order Yours

The Los Angeles skyline ships in three to five business days from our Chicago workshop. Three sizes, hand-finished, matte black with brushed gold lettering. The downtown LA core, sized for a shelf, ready for the mantel.

If you want to see the rest of our work, the full cities collection covers eleven other US cities. Each one is the same form and the same quality, with the silhouette of the actual depicted city. The Los Angeles model is one of our higher-volume pieces because the LA souvenir market has a larger authenticity gap than most cities, and the skyline fills that gap cleanly.

The airport gift shops on the way out of LAX will still be there. The good Los Angeles souvenir is not in the airport gift shops. It is here.