Living, aka California Living introduced in early 1950, and advertised at least as late as 1956.  Design attributed to Caleb Jackson, and originated as a commission for Laurel for distribution exclusively through N.S. Gustin.  (Sometime later Laurel sold it directly.)  Charles "Ted" Scarpino recalls in interviews that Gustin provided him with loose sketches and concepts, which he refined.  He sculpted for the molds.  Living is a little bit more of replete line, Gustine providing for some variety of shapes.  Living won a MOMA award for excellence in design

Footed coup plates in 12, 10 and 7 inch.  Gravy and oval liner or utility plate, Serving Bowls in 10 and 8 inch.  Divided serving bowl.  5 1/4 and 5 3/4 inch cereal and soup bowls.  Cup with broad ribbon handle (set lower than Seaside handle), and coup saucer. (listed in order seen in photos above.)  All of the above shapes are recycled; the molds used in the creation of other lines, notably Seaside (excepting alteration in cup handle).  Utility tray/gravy liner (?) excepted...rarely seen shape; remains unknown to me if available in other patterns.  Parade uses all the round flatware, and the bowl-of-cup. [Note: photo makes "White Sand" glaze look yellower than true; they are white (with speckles) pieces.]

Colors ephemera list are:  White Sand,  Pink Sand, Pebble Grey, Surf Green.  I have not found the name of the blue.  All these colors are washed out pale colors, (or white).  All glossy sheen and all speckled.  The pale, and what I call "washed-out" hue is your first immediate clue in distinguishing them from Seaside (or Holiday).  I have never seen these glazes on other Laurel, except the white/White Sand.

Shaker shape unique to California Living.  Creamer and lidded sugar (or Jam jar? - lidd can be found both with and without notch for spoon).  Bowl of sugar (jam) is just a cup sans handle.  (Creamer and sugar have been found with "Mission Ivy" backstamp and Ivy decoration,  but may not be a Laurel product.*)  Okay now, these photos are terrible and the color is off.  But they show a Living Coffee, and The Living Teapot.

I will not show you photos but look for a cake plate on pedestal,  a cracker plate you can set a serving bowl into, a (milk-whatever-short) pitcher, and the angled handled mugs, ...also offered without handles, I guess as tumblers (though as such they are clunky).  Excepting the mug these shapes are unique to Living.  I have always sort of expected to find the teapot, however, in seaside glaze...but have not yet.  The mugs reappear in LIFE, and later in Cerama-Stone and in Multi-Stone (and though not observed by me, seem a fairly likely bet to show up in the elusive California Contempo).

Mugs in this photograph in order left to right are:   LIFE (Peach Blossom),   LIVING (Pebble Grey),   and Creama-Stone (Cocoa Brown).  (Remember, Possums, LIFE and LIVING are quite distintly different lines, regardless of a shared mug.)

There is a set of five nesting bowls...(also found in glazes of other lines incl. Seaside and Cerama-stone).

At least certain pieces of Living have been found in the Citron (or 'seamoss') glaze (the rich avocado green associated  with Seaside and late Holiday)

This set is forlornly sitting up in my rafters. Notice the milk pitcher.  It also shows the Pink Sand color reasonably accurately.  Okay, I hope this is adequate introduction.  Living has various backstamps, and fortunately often actually is indeed backstamped with pattern name!  One variant:

Ciao for Niao!

Padraig