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A pair of nineteenth-century doors from a French c A pair of nineteenth-century doors from a French chateau add a rustic sensibility to the master suite of this eco-friendly custom home on the North Shore by Scott Simpson Design + Build. The tub is by Kohler from Studio 41. 🖋:Tate Gunnerson. 📸:Stoffer Photography. Learn more — 🔗 in bio
Today is the start of the 14th Annual San Francisc Today is the start of the 14th Annual San Francisco Design Week! SFDW, which attracts annually 60,000 visitors, is back and making a statement as the first regional virtual design festival. Over 150 Bay Area and West Coast design firms will be participating in the 2020 event — themed “Intentional Distortions” — and aim to inspire with original ideas and creative solutions to help businesses survive in a post-pandemic world. Highlights include talks, webinars, web-conferences, and virtual tours with leading designers in multi-disciplines, from user experience, interactive design, and branding, to architecture, interior design, and fashion. The 2020 Design Awards are juried by top industrial professionals, including architect Takashi Yanai, FAIA; interior designer Catherine Kwong; and Google Product Design Lead Irina Blok. Go to the link in our bio for more info. 📸: @mmoranphoto.
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Landscape designer Davis Dalbok’s lush half-acre 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.
Because there’s no better time to enjoy nature. 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.
Dave McMullen, newly retired from a decades-long c 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.
While some people come to Grand Cayman, the larges 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.
In our technological age, as brick-and-mortar busi 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.
Catherine Bailey is reminiscing about the first ti 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.
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