The Hotel Lobbies Where Hollywood Takes Meetings During AFM

During AFM, several hotel lobbies across Los Angeles function as informal industry meeting spaces. The Fairmont Century Plaza serves as AFM headquarters, where its lobby brings together buyers, sellers and filmmakers. The hotel marks its 60th anniversary with "Sip the Century" cocktails, including an Olive Oil Martini and a saffron-honey-spiked Golden State 75. A DJ schedule runs Tuesday through Thursday from 6 to 10 p.m.

The Peninsula Beverly Hills, located approximately 1 mile from AFM, offers the Living Room with sofas and armchairs surrounding low tables and twin fireplaces. Afternoon tea includes tiered trays of finger sandwiches, scones and bite-sized pastries with Champagne. The Club Bar features Table 9, an exclusive Wolves Whiskey collaboration named for the hotel's most coveted table.

At the Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills, also approximately 1 mile from AFM, Pierre-Yves Rochon designed Art Deco interiors across a three-story lobby. The Lobby Lounge serves as a setting for business conversations over drinks.

PUBLIC West Hollywood, approximately 5 miles from AFM, opened recently under the direction of Ian Schrager. The lobby features glossy white floors and colorful sculptural chairs, with Anselm Reyle's metallic magenta sculptures serving as check-in desks. Lighting inspired by James Turrell and Dan Flavin creates a "dreamlike glow." Meeting spaces include the lobby, communal tables in a walnut-lined library and Adirondack chairs around a rooftop campfire.

The Chateau Marmont on Sunset Boulevard, approximately 5 miles from AFM, offers charcoal velvet sofas with deep rolled arms beneath iron chandeliers. The recently reopened Bar Marmont brings French-Vietnamese cuisine including shaking beef and crispy rock shrimp.