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 …
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 …
From the moment you arrive at an airport, travel is facilitated by coding. Digital coding is deployed for some important aspects such as security gates, baggage destinations, and for seating. But, at San Francisco …
San Francisco interior designer Alicia Cheung approached the redesign of a Bombardier Global 6000 as an exercise in restraint, but her choice of an electric blue exterior with ombré gradients and a tailfin decorated …
How two Pottery Barn veterans—now designer and client—brought Scandinavian mys to Healdsburg. When Marta Benson, the former CEO of Pottery Barn Brands, retired in 2024, she and her husband, Adam Willner, began searching for a …
When a woman in her early 70s set out to convert her 357-square-foot 1980s art studio at The Sea Ranch—designed by Bob Hartstock—into a guest house, she enlisted Chad DeWitt of Framestudio. Known for …
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 …
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 …
In Westwood Highlands, color whisks the owners beyond the everyday. By the time the pandemic arrived, this San Francisco kitchen was already on borrowed time. After a decade of family life, appliances were failing, cabinetry …
In the Healdsburg countryside, architect Malcolm Davis of MDa Studios, in collaboration with Lucas & Lucas Landscape Architecture, created a barn-style guest house and an outdoor kitchen pavilion designed to accommodate both large and …