Since I’m winding down here on my guest posts at Design*Sponge, I thought I’d leave you all with my gratitude for all the lovely comments you posted and a bit of a source list of my favorite San Francisco haunts (in addition to the ones I’ve previously told you about). I’ve had a fabulous two…
jaime hayon‘s booths for both bisazza and barcelona design were two of the highlights of milan for me. full of color, pattern, plenty of metallics and a wonderful sense of whimsy, hayon’s designs stood out from the pack because of the designer’s unique voice and take on some of the current trends in the industry:…
i really fell for all of the beautiful texture in the paola lenti collection today…click here to see more photos of the collection at h&g….
tom dixon…(insert homer simpson-style drooling)…his silver slab table with a wood-grain pattern is so, so beautiful. click here for the post over at h&g.
today i was like a kid in a candy store- i focused entirely on student and independent design in milan and was so, so thrilled with the results. i spent most of my day in an area known as the tortona checking out dutch, japanese, french and british design work- along with a great selection…
One of my favorite resources for inexpensive, yet wonderful and unique artwork is the online art gallery, The Beholder. San Francisco-based curator, creator Suzanne Shade is one of the most soft-spoken, artistic and lovely people you’d ever want to meet. She and I met just about a year ago working on a pro-bono photo exhibit…
after a rocky start i’m here in milan, blogging away in my hotel room. i spent the day covering the main furniture fair so i’ve got two posts up at my blog on h&g. one on the comedy of errors that was my trip here and the next on the first day’s finds. i’ve got…
Like a lot of cities, San Francisco has its neighborhoods, each one reflecting its own unique personality. There’s quite a lot of diversity from one neighborhood to the next here, and just after traveling a few blocks, it sometimes feels as though you’re visiting another town, which I just love. Some days you just ask…
Blogger is running amok tonight and the photos have gone haywire. I have new posts ready to go, and as soon as Blogger straightens itself out, I’ll be back up.
Ceramics and graphic artist Diana Fayt is one of my favorite San Francisco talents. Moving to San Francisco in the early nineties, like many artists Diana made her way as a server, at Firefly restaurant (another San Francisco favorite not to be missed) for a decade, while experimenting with her printmaking and ceramics, culminating in…
Depending on how you look at it, it’s either really fantastic, or a dreaded curse to live as close as I do to the Fillmore Street Shopping District. There are so many lovely local boutiques on this block that one could presumably shop from dawn to dusk and stop in between for coffee ten times,…
I am super proud of my friend Eszter Rabin of EmmaRose Papery. She took a big risk, and chucked the world of advertising (yeah!), bought a couple of old letter presses and started up shop in her basement garage. She has been busy ever since, most recently designing and printing an invitation for San Francisco…
tomorrow i head to newark airport to hop on a plane to milan. h&g is sending me to cover the furniture fair, off-site shows and hopefully create a guide to the city with independent design (and local craftspeople) in mind. in light of the trip and time change i won’t be posting this week. howeveer,…
I have lived in San Francisco for 13 years now. Lucky 13. I grew up in the burbs of Los Angeles and almost every summer my family would load into the little red bug, at the crack of dawn, for a road trip up north. That’s when I first fell in love with this city….
A few years back I decided I’d host my own birthday party, but I didn’t want the focus necessarily to be on my birthday. I just wanted to hang out with good friends, and do something creative and different. I don’t even remember how I came up with the idea, but I thought it would…
beearo was a big hit here back in march of 2006, so i was psyched to hear from the brothers at beearo about their latest products: wall vinyls. my natural inclination is to say “more wall vinyls?” but i actually like these. why? because they’re made of environmentally sustainable real wood veneers. each pattern and…
ac and i live right above our neighborhood hardware store. i never thought i’d get so into a shop like that but i find myself in there at least twice a week looking for odds and ends. for the past few weeks as i waited in the check out line i would look at these…
new affordable prints from hybrid home at velocity- $40 each right here.
i heard from emily at jay jeffers‘ studio the other day and she was kind enough to help me set up an interview with the talented california designer. i’ve been interested in interviewing more interior designers lately, as my interest in styling and space has grown exponentially. the more i try to finish our house…
every friday the full range of “things we love” and “under $100” are click-able at h&g.com. i mentioned the white magazine totes from monday but i wanted to call out the new chilewich placemats ($17 each), coco chandelier ($399), bamboo teapot ($60), and red and navy kitchen towels ($6 each) from the conran shop. click…
