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Vanishing Point 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. …
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Food for Thought 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 …
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One printer, an artist and an industrial designer all have this in common: precision.
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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 …
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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 …
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When a young San Francisco couple was looking to refresh their Nob Hill residence six years ago, a dinner party encounter led to them becoming Studio AHEAD’s first client. …
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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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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. …
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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 …
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Bay Area landscape designer Janell Denler Hobart is known for her understated presence and refined work, often collaborating with architect Ken Lindsteadt on stately estate gardens that balance classical elegance with modern sensibility. That …
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A native New York City lawyer and his partner, an athletic trainer from Massachusetts, wanted to exchange their San Francisco condo for a house, so they considered bucolic Marin. Instead, they found a home …
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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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About 15 years ago, Julie and Will Parish were looking to make a conservation purchase — of “land that needed love,” as she puts it — within an hour …
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Nearly nine years ago, after Andrew and Kathleen Blank of Park City, Utah, purchased a one-and-a-half-acre vineyard property west of Healdsburg, they learned that it sits on a floodplain. …
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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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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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When Thomas Goetz and Whitney Wright decided to reconfigure their home’s attic on Potrero Hill, they wanted a professional who understood the neighborhood. They found Cary Bernstein, a Yale-educated architect who remodeled their Potrero …
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Growing food in full viewBY REED WRIGHTPHOTOS BY SASHA GULISH “What researchers have discovered in ‘Blue Zone’ areas is that growing your own food is closely tied to longevity,” …
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At the end of a winding road in Healdsburg, California—after the pavement turns to gravel and Google Maps can no longer find connection—perches the fire-resistant house Studio VARA designed …
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While Christine Lin’s path to San Francisco and a career in interior design was not exactly straightforward, it has led to a very good place: a singular home in the city’s Potrero Hill neighborhood …
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Located on a steep hillside in San Anselmo, Andrew and Elena’s house is hard to get to, let alone build upon. But the remote feeling of the forested setting …
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Located on a steep hillside in San Anselmo, Andrew and Elena’s house is hard to get to, let alone build upon. But the remote feeling of the forested setting …
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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 …
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Time Passages; A Painter’s Progress Sausalito painter Gordon Studer, 66, never imagined he’d become a fine artist, wielding acrylic paints with unconventional tools on enormous wood panels. Despite being a fine arts major at …
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Time Passages; A Painter’s Progress Sausalito painter Gordon Studer, 66, never imagined he’d become a fine artist, wielding acrylic paints with unconventional tools on enormous wood panels. Despite being a fine arts major at …
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Time Passages; A Painter’s Progress Sausalito painter Gordon Studer, 66, never imagined he’d become a fine artist, wielding acrylic paints with unconventional tools on enormous wood panels. Despite being a fine arts major at …
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Time Passages; A Painter’s Progress Sausalito painter Gordon Studer, 66, never imagined he’d become a fine artist, wielding acrylic paints with unconventional tools on enormous wood panels. Despite being a fine arts major at …
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Time Passages; A Painter’s Progress Sausalito painter Gordon Studer, 66, never imagined he’d become a fine artist, wielding acrylic paints with unconventional tools on enormous wood panels. Despite being a fine arts major at …
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Sheep lounge chair by Studio Ahead, inspired by Persian divans, is covered with felted merino wool fabric. $14,268 in wool; $10,056, customer’s own fabric. Studioahead.com Bluff Lounge from MANOS is an elegant concrete chaise …
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