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 …
The Melek cocktail table by NICOLEHOLLIS for McGuire is made of rattan woven over a metal frame, and Starphire glass. In Naturale of Nero finishes, it is sold through the trade at bakerfurniture.com The …
In Oregon’s High Desert, A Less Wild Western Story The high-desert compound outside of Bend, Oregon, that Julie Hawkins, of Hawkins Interiors, designed for an East Bay family is a longtime dream finally come true. “We …
Architect Karen Curtiss’ client has seen a lot of homes. A real estate agent in San Francisco for over a decade, he estimates visiting more than 200 annually. Still, a hillside dwelling in Clarendon …
How two Pottery Barn veterans—now designer and client—brought Scandinavian mys to Healdsburg. When Marta Benson, the former CEO of Pottery Barn Brands, retired in 2024, she and her husband, Adam Willner, began searching for a …
When a woman in her early 70s set out to convert her 357-square-foot 1980s art studio at The Sea Ranch—designed by Bob Hartstock—into a guest house, she enlisted Chad DeWitt of Framestudio. Known for …
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 …
