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Chain Links

Molecular screen for the front door.“I have never enjoyed science,” says Annie Kantor, founder of Modern Metal Designs, a decade-old Oakland-based laser-cut metal products company. “But I could like organic chemistry,” she muses. A …
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Tricked Out Reflection

Artist Andy Vogt’s magic mirror.  Ever Diametric marks a striking departure from San Francisco artist Andy Vogt’s usual material of choice—wood lath—yet it stays rooted in his signature approach: two-dimensional surfaces that suggest spatial …
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Making the Cut -The Main Squeegee 

One printer, an artist and an industrial designer all have this in common: precision. The last textile screen-printing bastion in San Francisco is still a hidden treasure. Craftswoman Anne Kirk has been hand screen-printing textiles …
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A Landmark View

Designer Jeff Schlarb taps into Telegraph Hill lore  When interior designer Jeff Schlarb’s client moved to San Francisco five years ago, he sought out a home that epitomized the City by the Bay — …
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Confident Pastels

From the outside, a 1905 Victorian in Pacific Heights, recently remodeled by David Armour of Armour Architecture, deliberately appears unchanged. Painted in subtle shades of gray and accented with a minimum of gilding, it …
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Design Wear House

Noz Nozawa’s lighting fixtures are quite literally jewelry for interiors. Noz Nozawa, 38, always wanted to be a designer—“even before I knew it was a thing,” she says. But guided by her pragmatic Japanese …
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Bold Moves

While Christine Lin’s path to San Francisco and a career in interior design was not exactly straightforward, it has led to a very good place: a singular home in the city’s Potrero Hill neighborhood …
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Going Places

At the Harvey Milk Terminal at SFO, the Alaska Lounge, completed last summer by William Duff Architects, is a place you won’t want to leave quickly. Perhaps it’s because, as architect Jonathan Tsurui—who led …
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Trip the Light Fantastic

Transportive designs that tease technology Rose Tinted Glasses – Johanna Grawunder's witty beacons San Francisco–based designer Johanna Grawunder has spent decades moving fluidly between architecture, art, and industrial design, with light as her primary medium. …
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New Lines for Furniture

The new set of 4 nesting side tables by San Francisco’s Fyrn, use the signature silver or bronze-finish metal bracket joints for North American dark walnut chair frames that have made the company famous. …
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