CHARLES D. KRATKA (1922–2007)

The Los Angeles Times notes that Charles D. Kratka, an interior designer and graphic artist whose modernist projects included the mosaic walls in tunnels at Los Angeles International Airport, has died. He was eighty-five. Kratka worked on the project as head of interior design for William Pereira and Charles Luckman, whose architectural firm was hired in the late 1950s to redesign the airport for the jet age. He also oversaw the design of the original interiors for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art when it opened in 1965. Two years later, he opened his own interior-design firm in West Hollywood.