Written by: Zahid Sardar
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Core Principles

Nearly a decade ago, the new owners of a 1924 Sea Cliff residence—originally designed by architect Earle Bertz—set out to transform the 4,900-square-foot Spanish Revival home into a pied-à-terre for their visits from China, …
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June 26, 2025
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Art as Language: The Unspoken World of Tucker Nichols

For Tucker Nichols, 55, who was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease at an early age, art became a vital way to express what words often fail to capture — even chaos. Raised in Boston and …
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June 26, 2025
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Looking Closely On the Fly

With financial institutions and other temples of commerce flagging since the pandemic, business consultant and hobby photographer Eugène Resh, 50, quit San Francisco in 2023 to roam the world. The city had been his …
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June 26, 2025
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About Town

No one wanted to ditch the past. “We were just looking to update the restaurant and not let a cool legacy die,” says Samantha DuVall Bechtel, a history buff and daughter of founder Sam …
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June 26, 2025
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Design Spot

Shape Shifters: Harnessing the magic of technology and craft Design consultancies like San Francisco’s IDEO, founded in 1978 by Stanford’s David Kelley, once worked quietly behind the scenes, shaping early tech products like the …
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June 26, 2025
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Plane Language

No school could have been more intentional about building design than the California College of the Arts. The planning took years. Photos by Jason O'Rear It faced the formidable challenge of reimagining its century-old, …
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May 1, 2025
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Makers

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 …
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May 1, 2025
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Beachside Villas

Sausalito architect Luca Pignata’s Florentine education—steeped in the shadow of Renaissance and Medieval buildings—resurfaced unexpectedly when he began work on a pair of modernist villas for a family compound in the northern part of …
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May 1, 2025
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Design Spot 

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 …
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May 1, 2025
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Observer

Spacial Recognition In response to humanity’s impact on the planet and the resulting climate change, San Francisco photographer Thomas Heinser appears to place people, places, and objects on the same conceptual plane—each struggling to …
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May 1, 2025

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