Written by: Zahid Sardar
We arrived in Cairo, the day after bombs began to fly across the Middle East. There, we encountered some of the most fascinating contemporary designers shaping how we view art from Egypt. These forward-looking …
Within the past year, SHLTR has been on the move. In Japan and Egypt, immutable treasures prompted unexpected shifts in our design perspective and reaffirmed a familiar axiom: the old nearly always informs the new. In …
Laura Pacchini’s path to painting looped through cities, disciplines, and decades before stretching into the practice she maintains today in San Francisco. Trained in graphic design and art direction, with some formative roles at Williams Sonoma …
Set against the restless horizon of The World—the largest private residential yacht on Earth—this interiors project began with a paradox. Nora Lacey, a pioneering biotech entrepreneur and devoted matriarch, was ready to leave behind …
Set between phases of a long-running Pacific Heights renovation, the redesign of a Gulfstream G-550 became an unexpected extension of a familiar brief: translate a richly layered home into a calmer, more distilled experience …
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 …