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One Good Idea

When David Rauch and Kate Shaw, a couple of design and behavioral professionals working with firms such as Lucasfilm and Airbnb, painted their San Francisco Mission District Victorian a dark charcoal color, they liked …
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Design Spot – Biomega

Lightweight yet designed to last. BER, the first urban e-bike from Biomega, the Danish bicycle company founded by former UC Berkeley student Jens Martin Skibsted, is a sleek design featuring an aerospace-grade aluminum frame. It may …
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Design Spot – On The Move

Two former Bay Area residents focus on mobility and work  Walter Craven’s privacy cocoon is much more; it’s a workspace that adapts to you.   For creatures that carry their own refuge — turtles, snails, …
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Built to Last

Self-sufficiency, accessibility and wildfire-resiliency combine for a future-proof home. Dick Vandlen and Mary Napier are acutely aware of nature’s beauty and fragility. Starting in the early ’90s, the husband and wife gradually acquired 640 acres in …
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Atherton Pavilions

Hidden within a densely planted flag lot in Atherton, California, two garden pavilions by Feldman Architecture blur the line between built forms and landscape.  Conceived as contemporary follies and as places to gather, cook, …
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Future Perfect

A house ahead of its time finds its ideal owners. From the street, you could easily pass by the house without a second glance. Designed by San Francisco architect Mark English in 1999 on …
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Team Building

Caroline Nassif's design transformed her clients' 1920s home as well as their lives. What began as a quest for a better bathtub evolved into a full-scale reinvention of a 1921 Craftsman in Oakland’s Lakeshore …
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The Ultimate Sleeping Cabin – SHLTR Competitions Winners

For a private enclave in the Yuba River region, more than 40 Bay Area finalists in the inaugural juried SHLTRâ„¢ Blue Chip Design Award Competition — presented in partnership with Aaron Gordon Construction and Strata …
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Masonic Symbolism

Architect Kevin Hackett's modern design offers a peak into an ancient brotherhood. Hidden beneath San Francisco’s monumental mid-century Masonic auditorium, a relatively new lodge by architect Kevin Hackett and his firm Síol Studios reimagines one of …
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Observer – The Bay Watcher

Artist and sailor Susan Parker captures the braided, embroidered, and sequined turbulence of the open sea.  Surely no one watches the water as keenly as the sailor? San Francisco painter Susan Parker lives aboard her boat, which …
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