Game Day Recipes. Gail Simmons' Hanukkah Party. Impromptu 1-Hour Party. Retro Cocktail Party. Tao of Entertaining. For hotel and restaurant designer Thomas Schoos, the mastermind behind such hot Los Angeles-area restaurants as Wilshire, Koi and O-Bar, delicious food is just one aspect of a great party. "You need all five senses going nuts on you," Schoos explains at a dinner he’s hosting in the lush garden behind the offices of Thomas Schoos Design in West Hollywood, where he does most of his entertaining. Like many of his projects, the garden includes elements from around the world, with art and antiques from India and Africa, a koi pond and a half-dozen parrots and hyacinth macaws. All manner of flora from palmetto trees to yuccas grow there; rare staghorn ferns are whimsically mounted on boards, like hunting trophies, that hang from the aviary’s walls.
"I feel like I’m on Gilligan’s Island," one guest comments. Gilligan’s Island with a flat-screen TV and full outdoor kitchen, that is. Born and raised in Germany, the 39-year-old Schoos felt drawn to Southern California.
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