Written by: Zahid Sardar
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 …
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, …
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, …
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 …
For a private enclave in the Yuba River region, more than 40 Bay Area finalists in the inaugural juried SHLTR™ Blue Chip Design Award Competition — presented in partnership with Aaron Gordon Construction and Strata …
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 …
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 …
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 …