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New Developments in San Francisco Architecture and Design

Almond & Company
by Zahid Sardar
November 18, 2019
DESIGNER CLARA BULFONI of San Francisco’s Geddes Ulinskas Architects maximized a small bathroom

19 Local Design Objects to Beautify your Home this Winter

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
AC Hotel Lobby

15 Things to Experience, Collect or Visit in the World of Art and Design

by Zahid Sardar
June 28, 2019

Strips, Straps & Stripes: A Gallery of Tactile Design

Wireline by Flos
by Lisa Boquiren
June 28, 2019
BAKKER’S POT Dutch Designer Aldo Bakker’s Pot is a limited-edition collectible.

27 Design Objects: Things Solid, Voluptuous, Stable & Cane

by Lisa Boquiren
December 4, 2018
Modernist San Francisco landscape designer Katharine Webster, at her new outdoor furnishings showroom.

15 Things to Fly In, Sleep Over, or Buy From the World of Art and Design

by Zahid Sardar
December 4, 2018
Atrio spa at Las Alcobas new luxury hotel.

Retro Flashbacks, Electric Bikes, and Treehouses

by Zahid Sardar
June 20, 2018
ORANGE VASE The limited-edition vase made by Royal Leerdam Crystal

26 Royally Gilded Home Decor Objects

by Lisa Boquiren
June 20, 2018

New Design Developments: Wine, Boats & Salt Shakers

Studio Becker
by Zahid Sardar
December 23, 2017
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Instagram post 2248881886550309460_4430677367 Restaurateurs Michael and Lindsay Tusk of Michelin-starred @Quince_sf and @Cotogna_sf fame developed a fondness for caves à manger — casual, order-at-the-bar, all-in-one wine bars and wine stores — while holidaying in England, Spain and France. L’Avant Comptoir, Le Dauphin and Juveniles became their magnets in Paris. Thus inspired, they recently launched @Verjus_sf (Ver-joo), a French-style cave à manger in an 1840s brick Victorian — still standing in shiny, technology-forward San Francisco. This deliberately chaotic drop-in gathering spot, where delicious house-made sausages and charcuterie — some served like Spanish pintxos at stand-up tables with single-ply paper napkins — and organic wines are the stars, also brings a much-needed patinated aesthetic to Jackson Square, one of the city’s oldest quarters. For the full story and more photos, click the link in our bio.
Instagram post 2248200957133658279_4430677367 “’I wanted lighting that was more interactive, more tactile, and that used premium materiality. And there was this magical point that happened with that design, when I almost allowed it to design itself.’ Pablo Pardo remains fascinated by this ‘human quality,’ and the belief that light can create harmony between people and their environment. For proof, one only need visit his showroom and studio in a large warehouse in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood. Located by Pier 80 and across the street from train tracks, this doesn’t seem like a place where you’d feel particularly Zen. And yet: his fixtures have clean, modern lines that enhance or blend into the setting. The light emitted is soothing and warm, even though it’s all produced by LEDs. Despite the creative chaos — the clutter of prototypes, the computers and drawings of concepts-in-progress — there’s a sense of order and ease.” For the full story and more photos, click the link in our bio. 🖊: @laura.a.hilgers.
Instagram post 2247458281530688225_4430677367 Moving east from San Francisco’s popular Dolores Park area toward grittier Potrero Avenue was not a big leap for 40-something film- and design-world executives Kate Shaw and Dav Rauch. Their old neighborhood, affordable in 1998 when they moved in, had been an outpost similar to the new one. In the back-alley entrance to the two-unit building they’d owned with friends, “we had to step over squatters to get inside the front door,” Shaw recalls. But by 2012, Dolores Park and the Mission District had become the epicenter of hipness, and the couple’s appreciated equity enabled them to sell their share in the building and then buy their own Potrero 1880s Victorian, close to an elementary school for their sons Silas and Townes. For more photos and the full story, click the link in our bio. 📸: @suzannascottphoto.
Instagram post 2246862942599903938_4430677367 “There’s a sense of wanting to bring back the elemental, the wild,” says designer Kevin Hackett, whose firm Síol Studios recently joined forces with architect Ross Levy to transform a modest bungalow on a down-sloping lot in San Francisco’s Noe Valley into a light-filled three-story home that’s woven into its valley landscape. “I think we crave nature more than ever because we’re not connecting to it as much,” Hackett says. He selected redwood for the built-in benches on the rooftop deck, where there’s a red cedar hot tub, a concrete fire pit and bluestone pavers. The plantings were selected and installed by Danielle Coulter, of Collecting Flowers. For more photos and the full story click the link in our bio. 🖊: @lauramauk. 📸: @joefletcherphoto.
Instagram post 2246860817446625544_4430677367 This table features a satin-finished aluminum cast base (shown here in matte gold), polished lacquered wood under top and marble or semiprecious stone top in natural agate, purple amethyst or green onyx (shown here). The base is also available in bronze or silver colors. Available at Visionnaire Home.
Instagram post 2241638946707058529_4430677367 DeWitt sensed that only a master architect could have designed the single-story 4,100-square-foot peak-roofed house. How else to explain its flawless siting and soaring light-filled interiors? Not to mention its individualistic blackened brass hood above a baronial fireplace. Even its carport in the west-facing entrance court had an uncommon elegance. For more photos and the full story, click the link in our bio. Creative director: Chad DeWitt of @framestudio__. 📸: @adamrousephoto.
Instagram post 2241637802190418852_4430677367 Table by Marcel Wanders for Roche Bobois is made from solid wood or from fiberglass and lacquered polyester resin in various finishes. Available in acacia wood and oak wood (as shown) at Roche Bobois.
Instagram post 2238140438657895426_4430677367 Wood tones and neutral hues populate the inside, but it’s notable that no trees were removed to accommodate Winged Retreat. “I love that dialogue between a mature, natural phenomenon and a new, modern home,” Aidlin says. Surveying the setting, he likens the oaks on the grounds to sculptures; for him, this project exemplifies “how architecture and landscape can complement each other and become a beautiful nesting environment for humans.” The powder room walls are covered in an automotive paint in a deep-orange hue with a bit of speckle to it. For more photos and the full story click the link in our bio. 📸: @matthewmillmanphoto. 🖊: @anh_minh.
Instagram post 2238131464365851768_4430677367 Daniel Piechota’s first commercial buildings designed under the banner of his new San Francisco architecture firm — wine production buildings and a matching satellite structure with tasting room and banquet spaces, for Silver Oak winery in the Alexander Valley — are essentially country barns. Built last year in the middle of vineyards near Healdsburg, they stand out like a child’s drawing of an archetypal house against the vines. For more info and photos of the project, click the link in our bio. 📸: @joefletcherphoto. Interior decorator: Laurel Harrington. Contractor: @cellomaudru.
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