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SPACES Magazine Winter/Spring 2020 Launch Party

Spaces Jan 2020 party
by Richard Wheeler
December 6, 2019

New Developments in San Francisco Architecture and Design

Almond & Company
by Zahid Sardar
November 18, 2019

19 Local Design Objects to Beautify your Home this Winter

DESIGNER CLARA BULFONI of San Francisco’s Geddes Ulinskas Architects maximized a small bathroom
by Lisa Boquiren, Photographs by CHRISTOPHER STARK
November 15, 2019
The Nice Faucet in red

19 Modern Innovations with Retro Looks

by Zahid Sardar
November 15, 2019
Catherine Bailey of Heath Ceramics.

The Origins of Heath: How a Sausalito Studio Was Revived to Become the Bay Area's Premier Ceramics Purveyors

by BY ANH-MINH LE
November 15, 2019
“Shrumen Lumen,” 2016

An Oakland Exhibition Highlights Art from Burning Man

by Reed Wright
November 15, 2019

In Their Own Words: Podcast With Sausalito Designer Charles de Lisle

Charles de Lisle at home in Mill Valley.
by DAN JEWETT
November 15, 2019

Rafael Arana's Illustrated World Beautifies Interiors

Artist Rafael Arana works on a lyrical mural
by Zahid Sardar
November 15, 2019

This Year's San Francisco Decorator Showcase Features a Ballroom Wonderland

2019 San Francisco Decorator Showcase
by Zahid Sardar, Photograph by Christopher Stark
November 15, 2019

3 Innovative Projects That Transformed Old Buildings Into Multiuse Spaces

The reconfigured chapel.
by Zahid Sardar
November 15, 2019
Architect Daniel Piechota’s barn-like winery design and tasting room for Silver Oak Winery

Silver Oak Winery's Eco-Conscious, Barn-Like Transformation

by ZAHID SARDAR, PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOE FLETCHER
November 15, 2019
open air plan kitchen and living room.

Mill Valley Architect Chris Dorman's Passion Project: His Own Home

by ZAHID SARDAR, PHOTOGRAPHS BY DAVID DUNCAN LIVINGSTON
November 15, 2019
For this midcentury modern house in Lafayette, architect Chad DeWitt added new decking around the amoeba-shaped poo

An Alamo Midcentury Home Gets a New Lease on Life

by ZAHID SARDAR, PHOTOGRAPHS BY ADAM ROUSE
November 15, 2019

A Step Up: A Six-Story Home Gets a Makeover

1980's manse. This home gets a makeover
by Reed Wright, Photographs by David Duncan Livingston
November 15, 2019

A Carmel Valley Contemporary Home Offers Nested Living

The siting of the house on a slope in the Santa Lucia Preserve maximizes the views and privacy.
by ANH-MINH LE. PHOTOGRAPHS BY MATTHEW MILLMAN
November 15, 2019

A Noe Valley Craftsman Goes Back to Nature

A Noe Valley house reimagined by architect Ross Levy, of Levy Art + Architecture in this craftsman home remodel
by LAURA MAUK, PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOE FLETCHER
November 15, 2019

Palette: An Artisanal Eating Space by Peter Hemsley

Palette’s main dining room, created originally for Restaurant LuLu, is vivified with color transformed into a restaurant gallery.
by Zahid Sardar
November 15, 2019
San Giulio Island in the south end of Lake Orta.

A Design Connection in the Italian Lakes

by Zahid Sardar
November 15, 2019
The NOAA fisheries research ship Bell M. Shimada at the Exploratorium.

How San Francisco Became a City Defined by its Piers

by David Weinstein
November 15, 2019

SPACES Magazine Summer/Fall 2019 Launch Party

by Photographs by Mo DeLong
July 25, 2019

Forward-Looking Architecture in the South Bay

SAN FRANCISCO ARCHITECT CRAIG STEELY’S 2,900-square-foot home design for a client in suburban Atherton.
by Zahid Sardar, Photographs by Darren Bradley
June 29, 2019

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Instagram post 2264859873485626858_4430677367 Landscape designer Davis Dalbok’s lush half-acre garden in Fairfax is in an atypically warm neighborhood he affectionately calls a banana belt. Its Thai and Balinese influences epitomize the central theme of the designer’s imminent monograph, which he says will be called “One Foot in the Tropics.” “I discovered my home accidentally during the dot-com boom when I could not afford even a tiny lot in San Francisco,” Dalbok recalls. “I began to look in Marin and the first time I peered through the old wooden gate to this property, I just knew it would be mine.” For more photos and the full story, click the link in our bio. 📸: @marionbrenner.
Instagram post 2264052461904156556_4430677367 Because there’s no better time to enjoy nature. Tree-house-maker Dustin Feider crafted this 320-square-foot dwelling within a magisterial oak amid 165 hilly acres outside Healdsburg, an hour north of Mill Valley. His futuristic spaceship-like assemblage includes a starshaped meditation deck made of Douglas fir, a sleeping loft with a floor of sustainably harvested chichipate wood from Argentina, a hammock made of netting and a diaphanous watertight 12-foot-diameter geodesic dome of high-density recyclable polyethylene “milk-carton” plastic, all of which seems to have sprung forth naturally. For more photos and the full story click the link in our bio.
Instagram post 2262658660669259438_4430677367 Dave McMullen, newly retired from a decades-long corporate law career, recently resolved to become an interior designer, but it wasn’t a quixotic decision. “I always tweaked the interiors of our homes in the past,” the intrepid 55-year-old says. “And then, after we hired interior designers Carolyn Einstein Dewar and Diane Einstein to reimagine our San Francisco home and explored design showrooms with them, I began to think of it seriously.” However, it wasn’t until McMullen and husband Edward Ortiz found an L-shaped 1940’s ranch house in St. Helena during one of their frequent jaunts to Napa, that McMullen made his debut. In one bedroom, a Timorous Beasties design depicting iguanas and pineapples is a moody backdrop for a leather headboard draped with a woman’s poncho from Oaxaca. For more photos and the full story click the link in our bio. 📸: @marikoreed.
Instagram post 2261900764054474152_4430677367 While some people come to Grand Cayman, the largest of the Cayman Islands, for endless white beaches and to snorkel among stingrays, turtles and starfish, Lauren Ebanks, an insider who has lived in this British Caribbean outpost for most of her life, recognizes her balmy tax-free haven as the capital of free-range chickens. The birds were set loose more than a dozen years ago by Hurricane Ivan, which leveled houses and backyard coops across the island. When the storm subsided, the AWOL poultry promptly multiplied. The rest of the story wasn’t as funny. Five months after the hurricane, the beautiful islands still didn’t have power and fewer than half the resorts bordering Grand Cayman’s famed Seven Mile Beach were functional. The storm damage was catastrophic, and without Ebanks’ employer, Dart Real Estate, leading the rebuilding charge, the island might still be recovering. For more photos and the full story, click the link in our bio.
Instagram post 2261209060368377423_4430677367 In our technological age, as brick-and-mortar businesses and institutions fade, buildings designed to house them also lose their purpose. But entrepreneurs and designers are finding ways to make them multifunctional and versatile. Several solutions in the Bay Area, while different from each other, share one thing: they promote a sense of community. In effect, they stand in for the village square — indoor/outdoor spaces that promote interaction and relief from screen-based isolation. Learn more about them in the link in our bio.
Instagram post 2260480449029999111_4430677367 Catherine Bailey is reminiscing about the first time she set foot inside the Heath Ceramics factory and showroom in Sausalito, 17 years ago. She and her husband, Robin Petravic, were exploring their new hometown and stumbled on the 1950s building, which she describes as a “time capsule” of sorts. “It had that feeling of: nobody had come in and injected any new life,” she says. “It didn’t seem like it was thriving at all, but it was very interesting and beautiful in a way.” Back then, Bailey was working as an industrial designer and Petravic as a product design engineer. They were looking to take their vocations jointly in an entrepreneurial direction. For more photos and the full story, click the link in our bio. 🖋: @anh_minh.
Instagram post 2259746322593036986_4430677367 Steve Oliver has made an art of solving problems. As the president of the award-winning Bay Area construction firm Oliver & Company, he’s spent countless hours figuring out how to build buildings, work with architects and finish projects on time and on budget. But when he encountered a work by the installation artist Edward Kienholz while visiting SFMOMA with his wife, Nancy, in the early 1970s, he was vexed. “It pissed me off,” says Oliver. “I thought, ‘This guy’s trying to tell me something and I’m not getting it.’” Oliver was so disturbed he left his office the following day and returned to the museum to puzzle it out. Surveying the piece again, he experienced “this great line you cross,” an intellectual engagement like nothing he’d known before. It ignited a passion for the arts that has consumed him and has had a profound impact on the Bay Area — and national — art scenes to this day. For more photos and the full story, click the link in our bio. 🖋: @laura.a.hilgers. 📸: @millennyem.
Instagram post 2259315546323733193_4430677367 Interior designers Jeff and Tray Schlarb mix shapes, colors and textures in their midcentury Sea Cliff home. For more photos and the full story, click the link in our bio. 📸: @aubriepick.
Instagram post 2258341672144791974_4430677367 When Mariam Naficy founded Minted.com, the online stationery retailer, in 2007, she “felt a little chicken” about testing her new business model. She was already a successful businesswoman. She’d received an MBA from Stanford and sold her first startup, the online cosmetics company Eve.com, for more than $100 million in cash. But she loved the idea she had for Minted: holding design competitions and letting customers decide which cards should be printed. “I thought crowdsourcing would be a way to tap into undiscovered artists who were hidden from the normal system and deserved a chance at distribution,” Naficy says. “It seemed like a way to bring constant freshness to the equation.” But she wasn’t sure anyone would go for it. For more photos and the full story, click the link in our bio. 🖋: @laura.a.hilgers. 📸: @millennyem.
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