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

Catherine Bailey of Heath Ceramics.
by BY ANH-MINH LE
November 15, 2019
Charles de Lisle at home in Mill Valley.

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

by DAN JEWETT
November 15, 2019
Artist Rafael Arana works on a lyrical mural

Rafael Arana's Illustrated World Beautifies Interiors

by Zahid Sardar
November 15, 2019
Pablo Pardo reinvents lighting design

Re-Inventing Lighting Design

by Laura Hilgers
June 28, 2019

The Works of Conceptual Photographer Catherine Wagner

Delilah Back by Catherine Wagner.
by Reed Wright. Photos courtesy of Catherine Wagner.
December 4, 2018
Celia Tejada at work in her San Francisco home.

A San Francisco Tastemaker with Art and Soul

by Laura Hilgers
December 4, 2018
Artist Andy Hope’s Big Bang II

San Francisco Artist Andy Hope’s Pieces Reflect a Twisted Hope

by Zahid Sardar
June 20, 2018
A row of translucent glass doors walls off the entry courtyard from the street.

Gallery White Walls Transform an Artist's Berkeley Hills Home into the Ultimate Canvas

by ZAHID SARDAR, PHOTOGRAPHS BY DAVID DUNCAN LIVINGSTON
June 20, 2018
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Democratizing Art, Minted is a Crowd Pleaser

by Laura Hilgers, Photos by Lenny Gonzalez
June 14, 2018

The Mosaic Artist Behind San Francisco's Famous Steps

Artist Colette Crutcher unpacks finished leafshaped tiles for a mosaic mural.
by reed-wright
June 14, 2018
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Instagram post 2253247469987400928_4430677367 “How did Kanter go from operating a single store to building a brand with 533 items ranging from bedding to custom upholstery, one that’s redefined intimate home spaces like the baby’s room? Judging from the juggernaut that has been Kanter’s career path, it’s clear she was never destined to keep things small. But the catalyzing event happened on a day when Kanter was not even in her shop. She was at the hospital, giving birth to her second son, when Dugan walked in bearing pieces of hand-block-printed fabrics she’d created while working as an artist and designer for both retailers and private homes.” Learn more about the Sausalito duo @serenaandlily and how they bring the Golden State’s pared-down design gestalt and their vision to the nation. 📸: @aubriepick.
Instagram post 2252507949516187093_4430677367 A San Francisco homeowner wanted her home to be both a sanctuary and a place to practice yoga. But her two-level 1950s Forest Knolls tract home, teetering on stilts atop a down-sloping hillside, had small lightless rooms that did not fill that need. Enter architect Brett Terpeluk, who worked for Italian architect Renzo Piano during the rebuilding of San Francisco’s eco-conscious Academy of Sciences and later designed trendy Farina and LihoLiho Yacht Club restaurants, also in the city. The partially enclosed bathroom takes up much of the new space, and the sculptural Tyrrell & Laing bathtub in the window faces a view seen through a Monterey cypress with a beautiful trunk and branch structure in the foreground; the vanity nearby is also freestanding so the owner can move around it easily. One corner of the bedroom is reserved for yoga. 📸: @cesarrubiophotography. For more photos and the full story, click the link in our bio.
Instagram post 2251795935046993416_4430677367 Each fall, Vienna Design Week attracts scores of design fans to the Austrian capital, and a recent visit underscored why: the mix of old and new is exciting. One of the crowning events of Vienna’s annual design fest, co-founded in 2007 by curator Lilli Hollein, is Passionswege — The Path of Passion. Passionswege is a program that pairs traditional Austrian manufacturing companies with industrial designers from other countries; their avant-garde creations are unveiled during the 10-day-long “week.” Neighboring countries that constituted the Austro-Hungarian empire and were also its principal manufacturing centers — the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland — provide frequent collaborators. In 2018, the centennial year of the empire’s breakup, Hollein chose to honor Poland and Polish designers. Learn more about the event in our bio.
Instagram post 2251085041438718584_4430677367 A wine country house by Zack/de Vito Architecture + Construction — conceived in the digital clouds, so to speak — is embedded in solid rock that is left exposed in the home’s concrete back court. The sculptural blackened steel staircase linking the basement wine cellar, the main living area and spare rooms upstairs, has floating wood treads. Concrete floor tiles abut eucalyptus wood planking in the hallway. 📸: @cesarrubiophotography. For the full story and more photos, click the link in our bio.
Instagram post 2250424902616569527_4430677367 Tiburon art collectors Stuart and Gina Peterson approached landscape architects James Lord and Roderick Wyllie of the San Francisco firm Surfacedesign, Inc. for an unorthodox hilltop garden to mesh well with their modern, art-filled home. “The journey through the garden was to be as important as the destinations within it,” Lord says. Now, less than half an hour across the bay from San Francisco’s Crissy Field, where the Petersons helped fund an SFMOMA off-site exhibition of Mark di Suvero’s steel sculptures, the couple’s rectangular five-acre “park” at home is also one where walking, running, jumping, sliding and playing hide-and-seek amid wild grasses and art are all possible. Mounded retaining hills on the edge of the garden are actually play structures, including one with an embedded trampoline. For more photos and the full story, click the link in our bio. 📸: @marionbrenner.
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.
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