Written by: Zahid Sardar
San Francisco’s Castro Theatre is back, baby. What better name could preside over the rebirth of the Castro Theatre than Phoenix Day? The Bay Area studio fashioned Art Deco chandeliers in 1937 for the …
Aaron Green’s Palo Alto masterwork gets a stellar addition The flag-lot house at the end of a long driveway that Ayla Christman and her husband, Emlen Fischer, toured one Sunday morning in 2019 felt …
A gallery that is its own art movement Two blocks apart, Serge Sorokko’s Napa galleries stand like bookends on First Street—twin spaces conceived by San Francisco architect Craig Steely. The first, which opened in …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
Zoox, the first electric robotaxi of its kind, debuted in Las Vegas and is now being readied for the hills of San Francisco. A Bay Area native — born in 2014 and built under …
Jason Langkammerer’s Wrightian fixer-upper commands a hilltop view For Bay Area architect Jason Langkammerer, his design-build instincts run in the family. His father was an architect-contractor, and Langkammerer quickly learned what makes great design …