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 …
By Zahid Sardar
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 …
By Zahid Sardar
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 …
By Zahid Sardar
Studio Anand Sheth’s picks for an old Pacifica stable site evoke lariats, horses and earth. Raked Clay stoneware planters from Ren Ceramics in California, can be used indoors as well as outdoors. Available in various …
By Anand Sheth
A minimalist ADU blends in with its Sonoma landscape. For a busy San Francisco couple working in media—he from Northern California, she from Tokyo—the plan to build a simple ADU on his parents’ 50-acre …
By Reed Wright
This 1925 San Francisco Edwardian appears unchanged. Until you step inside. Remodel projects creep along in San Francisco, and that was certainly the case with a 1925 Edwardian overlooking the Presidio. The home belonged to a …
By Zahid Sardar
Gallerist Francis Mill was instinctively drawn to two studios tucked in a quiet North Beach alley — once home to the totemic works of sculptor Adaline Kent. During rare quiet moments at his office, Chinese-American gallerist …
By Zahid Sardar
When interior designer Floriana Petersen arrived in San Francisco from her native Slovenia in 1986, two things in particular helped stave off homesickness: the creative community that she tapped into and the bonds forged …
By Anh Minh Le
Part chef, part stylist, Hanna Hurr reimagines the art of cooking. A mossy mountainside that turns out to be a slab of butter; a blue egg that cracks open to reveal perfectly steamed sticky …
By Lydia Lee
A beloved café space is alive again. Long before the new music bar Side A lit up the Mission District with vinyl vibes, burgers, and wine, Jim Skånberg, 56, had already built a DJ …
By Zahid Sardar
For James Hunter, design principal at The Wiseman Group, inspiration often arrives unannounced. Take, for instance, the lacy gold leaf wall treatment in a San Francisco Edwardian home, reimagined by Sutro Architects. Its muse? …
By Reed Wright