A Guide to the Best of Southern California : DESIGN : It’s Kaleidoscopic

IN THE COLORFUL, complex world of Kaleido, where more than 300 kaleidoscopes are on display, perpetual motion is only a motion away.

There are $3.50 paper kaleidoscopes and more expensive wonders, such as the $7,000 dream scope. But the piece de resistance is the spectacular party scope ($2,400), which allows four people to simultaneously experience an endless tidal wave of design.

And then there are the kaleidoscope-related products--greeting cards, pens and key chains, calendars, pocket kaleidoscopes, dragonfly prisms, build-your-own-kaleidoscope kits and kaleidoscope jewelry (neck ware begins at $45 for a ‘scope on a rope). Kaleido takes you on an unforgettable journey to another place, even though you know it’s all done with mirrors.

Kaleido, 8840 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, (213) 276-6844.