Brentwood Country Mart Fall 2026: Five Weeks Beyond Shopping

Three new names have moved into the Brentwood Country Mart this year, and the local chatter has mostly stayed on them. Sézane opened its first permanent Los Angeles boutique in a red barn storefront at the Mart's southern end in August, after years of testing the city with pop-ups at The Grove and Platform in Culver City. Varley picked the Mart for its first Los Angeles County store. Orlebar Brown followed with its fourth California shop, opening June 12. That's a real run of retail news for a 30,000-square-foot property, and it's the version of the story that's traveled furthest.

It's also not the reason locals will be back at the Mart four or five times between now and Halloween. That reason is a five-week stretch of programming that hasn't changed shape in years and that happens to overlap, almost exactly, with the new storefronts' first full season in business.

The three names, briefly

Sézane's Brentwood shop sits in Suite 52, the result of a strategy years in the making. A temporary Brentwood shop first opened in May 2023, and those earlier pop-ups routinely ran longer than scheduled because of demand, according to reporting in Fashionista. The brand closed for seven months starting in January for an interior redesign before reopening permanently this August, timed to the launch of its fall 2026 collection. It's open Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Varley landed at the Mart before its sister property, the Marin Country Mart in Larkspur, got its own location on July 26. Orlebar Brown's arrival a few weeks earlier gave the Chanel-owned resortwear brand its fourth California address, joining existing shops in Beverly Hills, Newport Beach, and Montecito. J.S. Rosenfield & Co., the owner of Brentwood Country Mart, also owns the Montecito and Marin Country Marts.

That shared ownership is useful context for understanding the Mart's relationship to its sister properties. It's not, on its own, what brings people back on a random Tuesday.

What hasn't moved

The Mart opened on November 18, 1948, designed by architect Rowland Crawford in the barn-style he'd later use elsewhere in the city. When James Rosenfield bought the property in 2003, the restoration brought back the original post office, food court, barber shop, toy store, and shoe repair shop rather than replacing them with something more contemporary. Those fixtures are still the ones doing the daily work: Reddi Chick for the chicken, Barney's for the burgers, Frida for the tacos, Edelweiss for candy, Sweet Rose for ice cream, Toy Crazy and the mini carousel for anyone under eight, and Diesel Bookstore anchoring the corner it's occupied for years.

Diesel's contribution this year wasn't just shelf space. The bookstore ran an author series through the summer, including a July 14 conversation with novelist Robinne Lee about her latest book. That kind of programming doesn't generate headlines the way a Parisian label's first LA store does, but it's the same courtyard, the same Wednesday-morning regulars, and it's part of why the retail turnover reads as addition rather than disruption to the people who already treat the Mart as a weekly stop.

Five weeks, stacked

What makes this particular stretch of fall different isn't any single event. It's how many of them land back to back, all pulling from the Mart's own calendar. The Friday movie series' most recent installment, a screening of Luca on September 25, gives a sense of the rhythm heading into the next five weeks:

None of this is new programming built around the new tenants. The Wednesday storytime and Friday movie nights are recurring fixtures that just happen to keep running while Sézane and Varley settle into their first autumn on the property. The pumpkin patch is annual. The Halloween Spectacular closes out the same calendar the Mart has run for years. What's new is that a shopper who came for the Jenni Kayne preview on October 6 is likely to walk past a red barn storefront that didn't exist a year ago, and a family showing up for storytime on a Wednesday in October is doing it a few doors down from a boutique that just moved in from Paris by way of Culver City.

One more signal down San Vicente

The momentum isn't contained to the Mart's own footprint either. The h.wood Group has plans for Montana's, a members-club-style restaurant and lounge slated for 11920 San Vicente Boulevard in early 2027. It's a separate address and a separate kind of business from anything inside the Mart's courtyard, but it's evidence that operators are reading the same half-mile of San Vicente the way the Mart's landlord is reading its own tenant mix: worth a bet, right now, in Brentwood specifically.

Off San Vicente, the neighborhood's other long-running Sunday tradition, the year-round farmers market, keeps its own schedule regardless of what's opening or closing at the Mart. It's the kind of constant that doesn't generate a press release, which is probably part of why it's lasted.

Showing up for both

The practical version of all this: the new boutiques and the old programming aren't competing errands. They share a courtyard and, for the next five weeks, a calendar. Someone picking up a pumpkin on an October afternoon is one aisle away from Orlebar Brown's resortwear rack. Someone bringing a toddler to Wednesday storytime is walking distance from wherever FFORME sets up its trunk show later that same week. The Mart absorbed a wave of new retail this year without asking anyone to change how they already use the place, which is arguably the more useful fact than any single store opening.

If the Country Mart is already part of your week, whether that's a Friday movie, a Wednesday storytime, or just the quickest route to Reddi Chick, you already know Brentwood at a level no listing sheet captures. Team Stacy White works this same stretch of the Westside every day, and we're always glad to talk through what's changing in the neighborhood, courtyard included. Let's Find Your Westside Home.