For a house built in a canyon, our new place is surprisingly light and airy, unless you’re in our bedroom, which is dark and inspires hibernation most days of the year. That’s all well and good when Mama and Papa Bear want to retire for the evening, but in the January daylight it can be [...]
Though this was supposed to be Tangerine’s year, the Blues Brothers (and their sisters Azure, Turquoise and Indigo) rule! According to San Francisco seamstress Laurel Sprigg, blue is the color she’s stitching up most often for the interior designs of her fashionable clients. She attributes the ongoing interest in heavenly hues and patterns–like this new [...]
Hello again. After posting about the lovely San Francisco Decorator Showcase I flew off to New Orleans to take in a little jazz and indulge in a beignet or two. More on that soon. But for now, I’m busy sifting and sorting in order to move. Curating stuff is tricky business. Unless you’re a talented [...]
I spent the morning at the press preview for the San Francisco Decorator Showcase and, let me tell you, it was a visual feast! As usual, the designs ranged from the outlandish to the oh-so-tasteful. Many of the rooms were inspired by the current Cult of Beauty exhibit at the Legion of Honor, so fine [...]
I am such a house-hunting hussy. Just last month I was bemoaning the buyers who left us at the altar and now that our house has sold to someone else I’m flirting with every possible dwelling that comes my way. Actually, not every possibility. Some of the options have been so bad I’d be afraid [...]
For the weekend. . . Check out Jonah Lehrer’s fascinating article in the March 26th issue of The New Yorker about designer Roger Thomas and how his interiors revolutionized Las Vegas casino décor. Lehrer quotes Thomas, who maintains a weekend home here in Northern California, as saying that he doesn’t design interiors based on focus groups, [...]
After the full-court press to beautify our home for its first open house this weekend, it was a relief to go play. And by play, I mean stay away from our beautiful house and find amusements elsewhere. We took in some movies (Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, yes!) and traveled across the bay to check [...]
