Written by: Zahid Sardar
The Green Room: Designed to bring out the child in you A leafy roost for multi-tasking diners Architect EB Min of Min Design entered a competition—sponsored by Mission Rock Partners, who transformed land leased …
New: At The Hall in SF, cue up some fun. Designer Craige Walters — known for countless successful San Francisco nightclubs, including Black Cat in the Tenderloin — has in recent years been working …
Its creators took some heat. Then, the plunge. Floating quietly in Richardson Bay, Fjord reimagines the Scandinavian sauna. The minimalist retreat — two aspen-lined steam rooms perched on a concrete barge — offers warmth …
Designer Alexa Wyman gives pet furniture a fun, sophisticated makeover. In East Bay designer Alexa Wyman’s world, Fido doesn’t share the couch — he has one expressly made for him. “When I was at Douglas …
San Francisco’s Walker Warner architects embraced light and shade in sybaritic Kauai The cedar and oak horizontal slat fence separating this nearly 4,000-square-foot U-shaped home from the road seems almost incidental. Even with two gates that …
Observer James Eddy finds inspiration lurking in the devotional retablos he collects. Brown-black sandpaper, soft pastel pencils, and the shimmer of devotional art converge in the studio of Lafayette artist James Eddy. His pieces—vivid, …
Past Redux, Future Fixes As a child in a household of physicists and scientists, artist Andy Hope — whose show Yesterday’s Tomorrows is currently on view at the Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco …
San Francisco architect Luke Ogrydziak of OPA sets a robot loose to make art. If last year is any indication, the upcoming San Francisco Decorator Showcase from April 26-May 26, 2025, will certainly have …
Architect Jess Field, 48, who surfed the California coast with his father, Stan Field, long before he joined their namesake Palo Alto firm, Field Architecture, felt an immediate thrill when was hired in 2017 …
Excavations: Architect Nick Polansky Uses Waterjets for Art A decade ago, during an artist’s residency at Autodesk’s Pier 9 Workshop in San Francisco, MIT-educated architect Nick Polansky, 41, began exploring hardwood’s resilience when he …