California Homes - September/October 2023

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LIGHTING

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Matthew Studios

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TEXTILES

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Paper Mills

Peggy Platner

Peter Fasano

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Taffard

Townsend Leather

The Sign

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WALLCOVERING

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Lithos Design

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Paper Mills

Peter Fasano

Rubelli

The Sign

RUGS

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ACCESSORIES/ART

Cecil Humphreys Bronzework

Elan Atelier

Fresh Paint Art

Lusso Misto Cashmere

Spirale Collection

Philip Nimmo

Studio Bel Vetro

Peggy Platner Collection

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After an incredible decade at the SFDC, Jeff, Peter and the entire HEWN team are thrilled to announce that we are embarking on a new and exciting chapter in our journey.

With great pride and enthusiasm, HEWN will be moving from the Design Center to a 10,000 sq/ft showroom just down the block at 299 Kansas Street. At our new home, we can further unleash our creativity and offer an unparalleled experience to our esteemed clientele.

As we embark on this transformational journey, we extend our heartfelt gratitude to all of our loyal customers and Makers who have supported us through the years. Your unwavering trust and appreciation for our commitment to quality and service have been the driving force behind our success.

We look forward to welcoming you to our new space.

Introducing a new era of excellence in design and service.

ESSENCIA™ from BainUltra offers the utmost in ergonomics and therapeutic care, critical components for relaxation and well-being. Essencia’s inner shell has been designed to offer an outstanding level of comfort.

ESSENCIA™ from BainUltra offers the utmost in ergonomics and therapeutic care, critical components for relaxation and well-being. Essencia’s inner shell has been designed to offer an outstanding level of comfort.

ESSENCIA™ from BainUltra offers the utmost in ergonomics and therapeutic care, critical components for relaxation and well-being. Essencia’s inner shell has been designed to offer an outstanding level of comfort.

Two rows of air jets intensify the massage effect, while the footrest provides exceptional comfort and allows total immersion. Available at Faucets N Fixtures.

Two rows of air jets intensify the massage effect, while the footrest provides exceptional comfort and allows total immersion. Available at Faucets N Fixtures.

Two rows of air jets intensify the massage effect, while the footrest provides exceptional comfort and allows total immersion. Available at Faucets N Fixtures.

Faucets N Fixtures Kitchen and Bath

Faucets N Fixtures Kitchen and Bath Showrooms are a destination for homeowners searching for the most cutting-edge products on the market. Our showrooms have been carefully curated and are truly designed for the most discerning client as a place where creativity can flourish. Our experienced staff is here to help you compose your perfect kitchen or bath.

Faucets N Fixtures Kitchen and Bath Showrooms are a destination for homeowners searching for the most cutting-edge products on the market. Our showrooms have been carefully curated and are truly designed for the most discerning client as a place where creativity can flourish. Our experienced staff is here to help you compose your perfect kitchen or bath.

Showrooms are a destination for homeowners searching for the most cutting-edge products on the market. Our showrooms have been carefully curated and are truly designed for the most discerning client as a place where creativity can flourish. Our experienced staff is here to help you compose your perfect kitchen or bath.

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TRAILSCAPE IS:

• Passionate about connecting people to their land and nature.

• Protecting families, homes and properties from fire.

• Providing a legacy for current and future generations to enjoy.

Exploring, enjoying and fully connecting with nature is one of Randy’s passions. He weaves that passion into his trail builds. As a business, Trailscape truly believes the ability to fully enjoy one’s property is essential to every home. Trails enable an instant connection to the land thus allowing homeowners to access otherwise inaccessible areas. In many ways, trails are becoming as important as driveways providing access to multiple points of interest.

In addition, trails offer a higher level of safety, security and value. “Our trails are constructed in a way that they are wide enough with clearance on either side of excess brush that they naturally create effective fire breaks which help protect our clients, their families and their properties.”

Randy Martin has an award-winning team of professionals who design, build and maintain trails for private landownersand public entities. He often likes to share that, “while it may appear that trail construction is simple “landscaping,” this is not the case. Trail building is both art and science. The art part is augmenting the natural beauty and giving the user a sense of flow. While building a trail is not “rocket” science, it is the science of solving multiple terrain challenges and making the trail last for decades.”

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2023

ABOVE Interior designer Matthew O’Dorisio designed a Menlo Park home for long standing clients. They wanted to compliment the architecture of the house with beautiful outdoor living spaces to take advantage of the California climate. See story beginning on page 76.

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MUSEUM QUALITY

Cabana Home Modernizes A Cool Montecito House, Filled With Sculptural, Artful Accents

Text by Jennifer Blaise Kramer

Photography by Meghan Beierle-O’Brien

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FRESH COLORS FOR A MENLO PARK HOME

Designer Matthew O’Dorisio Returns To This Original Project With Major Design Changes

Text by Kavita Dawsani

Photography by Karyn Millet

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CALM, COOL & COMFORTABLE

A Hillside Residence Overlooking

The San Francisco Bay Now Exudes Beauty Inside And Out

Text by Anh-Minh Le

Photography by John Merkl

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BALANCE ON BALBOA ISLAND

Architect Chris Brandon And Interior

Designer Jodi Fleming Craft A Bayside

Home That Melds Contemporary With Traditional Elements

Text by Nora Burba Trulsson

Photography by Lisa Romerein

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MARIN MODERNISM

COUPAR Honors A Henrik H Bull Classic

Text by Kendra Boutell

Photography by Paul Dyer

Photograph by Karyn Millet.

A seating area in the master suite of this waterfront home continues designer Joo Y Oh’s idea of modernizing the home, yet keeping the comfortable feel of the past. See story beginning on page 84. Photograph by John Merkl.

Bring your kitchen inspiration.

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BY KATHY BRYANT

BY SARAH BRAY

JENNIFER BLAISE KRAMER

BEIERLE-O’BRIEN

Iam excited to share California’s upcoming sponsored events starting in September. We kick off with the October Fall Modernism Show in Palm Springs, followed by the San Francisco Fall Show. After SFFS, WestEdge will be held at the Santa Monica Hangar, and we’ll wrap up with holiday entertaining in late November. California Homes is proud to sponsor these events, and we’ll also host our own local events. It’s going to be a busy season!

This year’s San Francisco Fall Show, featuring art, antiques, and design, commences with an opening night gala on October 11, and the show continues until October 15. The show is titled “The State of Good Taste,” which, in my opinion, perfectly encapsulates everything about design in California. Check out the incredible lectures and panels featuring some of the world’s most prominent experts and authors in the art, antiques, and design fields online.

California Homes is proud to present our Features section, showcasing homes in Menlo Park, Belvedere, Newport Beach, and Montecito, including a historic home in Northern California. We know you will enjoy these stories.

We are excited to introduce a new monthly column featuring Sarah Bray, a nationally recognized wine writer, educator, and brand consultant. In each issue, she will share her knowledge and new information on California wines. Welcome Sarah!

Susan McFadden Editor in Chief

Contributors

SARAH H. BRAY

Sarah H. Bray, DipWSET, is a wine writer, educator, and brand consultant with a passion for exploring the world’s best wines. After a diverse career journey, including in publishing and the auction world, she found her calling in the wine industry. She is currently the Associate Director of Wine Education for The Wine Center at Meadowood in Napa Valley, where she runs the Wine Writers’ Symposium, as well as a co-founder of the Bâtonnage Forum, a platform focused on helping women throughout the wine industry. She is a contributor to AFAR, GuildSomm, VinePair, and other publications. In her spare time, she lends a hand at T. Berkley Wines, her husband’s Loirevarietal project in northern California. See her wine profile beginning on page 56 of this issue.

KARYN MILLET

After an accomplished career in public relations and publishing, Karyn Millet picked up a camera in 2002 and quickly became the “go to” photographer for top interior design professionals. The awardwinning, Los Angelesbased interior photographer is known for her editorial approach capturing intimate, livable moments for publications such as House Beautiful, Traditional Home, Milieu, Luxe, Interiors, Domino, C Magazine, Country Living, Modern Luxury, Condé Nast Traveler, and Yolo Journal. Millet has photographed five books with include Karyn’s combined two passion: design and travel. See her photography beginning on page 76 of this issue.

ANH-MINH LE

Anh-Minh Le’s byline has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, C Magazine, California Home + Design, Luxe Interiors + Design and Diablo, among other publications. She also served as the founding editor-in-chief of Modern Luxury Silicon Valley and co-founded the independent lifestyle magazine Anthology See her story beginning on page 84 of this issue.

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MUSEUMS & GALLERIES

HAMMER MUSEUM –LOS ANGELES

Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living is the sixth iteration of the Hammer’s biennial exhibition highlighting the practices of artists working throughout the greater Los Angeles area. These practices embrace the value of craft, materiality, performance, and collectivity. The biennial situates art as an expanded field of culture that is entangles with everyday life; community works; queer affect; and indigenous and diasporic histories. Featured are works by more than 40 different artists.

Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living takes its title from a quote by the renowned Los Angeles artist Noah Purifoy, which is inscribed on a plaque at the Watts Towers. “One does not have to be a visual artist to utilized creative potential. Creativity can be an act of living, a way of life and a formula for doing the right thing.” The exhibit runs from October 1 through December 31, 2023.

For more information, visit hammer.ucla.edu.

THE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM –SAN FRANCISCO

The Contemporary Jewish Museum is pleased to present RetroBlakesberg: The Music Never Stopped, a solo exhibit that travels through some of the most explosive moments in music history through the lens of Bay Areabased photographer Jay Blakesberg. On view August 31 through January 28, 2024, the show explores the connection between music and cultural memory, showcasing photographs that evoke the sounds and stories that have shaped the Bay Are and beyond.

The exhibition brings together more than 150 photographs and related ephemera from the years 1978-2008. Featuring images of the Grateful Dead, Joni Mitchell, Tracy Chapman, Neil Young and many other influential figures, the exhibit explores both the musicians that change American music, the fans that experienced it and the storied career of Jay Blacksberg.

For more information, please visit thejcm.org.

ORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART –COSTA MESA

Jennifer Guidi: And So It Is opens at the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) on September 16 and runs through January 7, 2024. Jennifer Guidi’s layered painting practice investigates and generates meditative states of being—spaces in which spiritual, natural and ethereal boundaries cease to exist. Guidi produces abstract, colorful compositions that build on ancient theories of energy and perception to transport us into heightened states of being.

Using a methodical system in which sand is applied directly to the surface of the canvas while wet, Guidi creates a ritualistic, repetitive choreography—one entirely her own. OCMA’s exhibition, the artist’s first museum solo show, presents a selection of Guidi’s work to date alongside the premiere of several significant new paintings. Focusing on the importance of place, what’s especially evident is Guidi’s embrace of the colors of California.

For more information, please visit ocma.art.

Jennifer Guidi Till Sunbeams Find You, 2021-2022

Sand, acrylic and oil on linen 92 x 74 inches

Jay Blakesberg, Rainbow Gathering at Modoc National Forest, CA, July 4, 1984

Bridget Riley, Study for ‘Movement in Squares, 1961

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LISSON GALLERY –LOS ANGELES

Sean Scully returns to Los Angeles almost 50 years after making his LA debut there, unveiling a selection of new and older works at Lisson’s recently-launched LA space. Celebrating the development of his practice over five decades, this eraspanning exhibition, LA Deep, draws formal and conceptual resonances between Scully’s earliest grid paintings all the way forward to innovative, large-scale works from 2023.

Scully’s so-called Supergrid series of works began while still a student in London and Newcastle in the US during the 1960s, progressing towards a sophisticated language of overlapping, interwoven stripes painted between taped boundaries. Perhaps the apotheosis of this period is his monumental work, Blaze (1971), a dizzying matrix of neon pinks, sport-car reds and flame-licked yellows.

In the intervening years, Scully moved to the US full-time in 1975, settling in New York after a long cross-country road trip. LA Deep is on view from September 23 to November 4.

The gallery is located at 1037 N. Sycamore Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90038. For more information, please call 213.224.7550 or visit lissongallery.com.

HAINES GALLERY –SAN FRANCISCO

Haines Gallery presents Sacred and Profane Geometries, two solo exhibitions by artists Ai Weiwei and Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian from September 5 through October 28.

Shaped by experiences of diaspora and exile and informed by exposure to New York’s art scene early in their creative development, both Ai and Monir are well-known for fusing the traditional methods and materials of their native countries—China and Iran, respectively—with the impulses of abstraction and conceptual art.

Marking the first time the works of these artists have been placed in dialogue, these tandem exhibitions bring together cultural references specific to each, while focussing on their shared use of geometrical forms to explore concerns that range from the political to the mystical.

Works by Ai Weiwei include: Cao, a monumental installation representing thousands of grass blades on a network of hexagonal bases, each of its over 500 individual components hand-carved from gleaming white marble.

Works by Monir Farmanfarmaian include stunning examples of her signature mirrored mosaics and early works of paper which take on significance today as women in Iran fight for women’s rights and autonomy.

The gallery is located at 73-199 El Paseo, Palm Desert, CA 92260. For more information, please call 888.972.5543 or visit dawsoncolefineart.com.

MIRIPOLSKY GALLERY–LOS ANGELES

The artist known as William has works on view at the Miripolsky Gallery. William is an acclaimed painter and author. He has studied with contemporary masters including Richard Diebenkorn, Lorser Feitelson, Jayme Odgers and Roland Young.

William trained in many media—oils, acrylic, pastels and airbrush. He incorporates in much of his work photo and computer manipulation. He was an instructor and president of the Alumni Association at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and served on the Board of Trustees. William is represented by the Highlands Art Collective.

The gallery is located at 690 Moulton Ave #A, Los Angeles, CA 90031. For more information, please call 714.915.7148 or visit highlandsartcollective.com.

William Forest Flowers 42 x 48 inches Acrylic/Oil on Canvas

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian Gabbeh, 2009 Mirror, reverse painted glass, & plaster on wood 37 x 59.5 x 2 inches

Ai Weiwei Cao, 2014 Marble

Sean Scully Wall Landline Triptych, 2022 Oil on aluminum 85 x 269 1/4 x 2 1/8 inches each

Sean Scully on the Grand Canyon, June 1976

Sean Scully in Utah, 1976

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PALM SPRINGS MODERNISM FALL SHOW

The 9th annual Palm Springs Modernism Fall Show featuring the best in Midcentury and Modern Design will be opening during Modernism Week on October 20 and features many dealers new to the show as well as returning dealers that have participated in previous shows.

The Fall Show will feature nearly 50 premier national exhibitors offering vintage furniture, decorative and fine art representing all design movements of the 20th century and 21st century contemporary design. This popular event, which runs October 20- 22, will be held in the Palm Springs Convention Center, located at 277 North Avenida Caballeros in Palm Springs, CA.

For more information and a list of exhibitors, please visit palmspringsmodernism.com or email info@dolphinfairs.com.

LA JOLLA ART & WINE FESTIVAL

The La Jolla Art & Wine Festival (LJAWF) will be returning to downtown La Jolla on Saturday, October 7, and Sunday, October 8, 2023, showcasing prestigious art, regional and international wines, craft beer and spirits, and family-friendly fun.

Featuring more than 160 artists from across the U.S. and Mexico, their exquisite creations come in a variety of mediums including painting, sculpture, jewelry design, fine glass, ceramics, woodwork, mixed media, and photography.

This Festival is not just for the art connoisseur; The La Jolla Art & Wine Festival is also a destination where vino enthusiasts and craft beer lovers unite. The iconic wine and beer garden highlights over 35 international wineries, local craft breweries, and craft distilleries. Along with a two-day silent auction, 15 pet adoption stations and an all-star line-up of live entertainment and music, there is something for everyone.

For more information, please visit lajollaartandwinefestival.com.

WESTEDGE DESIGN FAIR

WestEdge Design Fair showcases the best in modern design, offering guests the opportunity to shop the latest from premium home furnishings brands, including both established and up-and-coming names. Panel discussions, culinary demonstrations, workshops and parties round out the offerings—all in an environment designed to engage, entertain and inspire.

The West Coast’s premier contemporary design fair returning is to L.A. November 16-18, 2023. WestEdge Design Fair will be held at The Barker Hanger in Santa Monica.

For more information, please visit westedgedesignfair.com.

THE SAN FRANCISCO FALL SHOW 2023

Finest Antiques, Contemporary Art, Decorative Objects, Jewels

BY DIANE DORRANS SAEKS PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF SF FALL SHOW

THE 2023 SAN FRANCISCO FALL SHOW, the longestrunning art, antiques, and design fair on the West Coast, opens on October 11 with a celebratory gala at the Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture’s Festival Pavilion.

The four-day event presents fifty invited international art and antique specialist dealers. Now in its forty-first year, the show continues to be a special focus for the San Francisco Bay Area’s antique, art, architecture, and design communities.

“Our 2023 theme of La Dolce Vita sets the tone for a fabulous four days of poetic beauty, breathtaking art, inspiring design, exuberant color, rare jewels, and hand-crafted treasures, “ said show chair Suzanne Tucker.

Funds raised from the event will benefit the city-owned Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

“Thanks to the show’s patrons, we will strengthen our mission to showcase the finest arts from around the globe,” adds Thomas P. Campbell, director and CEO of San Francisco’s de Young and Legion of Honor museums.

Benjamin Steinitz from Paris is among the top dealers showing a selection of their finest treasures. His cosmopolitan collection includes 18th-century French and Chinese objects, regal furniture, decorative wall paneling, and lovely porcelains.

Also displaying rare treasures are Carlton Hobbs from New York, Philip Stites from Los Angeles, Peter Fetterman from Los Angeles, Berggruen Gallery, Modernism, Aedicule, Epoca, and Tony Kitz Gallery, all from San Francisco. Collectors are also excited about Eocene Arts from Japan.

Making a first-time appearance is the M. Hanks Gallery from Fullerton, California, which has specialized in African-American art since 1988. Longtime exhibitor Finnegan Gallery of Chicago, returns with period garden furniture.

“Antiques are always relevant and essential to our culture,” said French antique dealer Benjamin Steinitz, whose father Bernard was a focal point of the first show 41 years ago. “Antiques preserve and reveal centuries of fine craftsmanship, beauty, knowledge, and heritage. Each antique has a fascinating story.”

At the Grand Entry, four custom-designed vignettes will showcase de Gournay’s hand-painted wallpapers created by Nina Campbell, Lauren Santo Domingo, Benjamin Dhong, Paolo Moschino, and Philip Vergyelen.

The fair includes a robust, vivid roster of illustrated lectures and dynamic discussions. Among speakers is Mitchell Owens, American editor of World of Interiors, Stellene Volandes, editor-in-chief of Town & Country, along with design book authors Emily Evans Eerdmans, Scott Powell, Newell Turner, and designers Paul Wiseman, Brigette Romanek, Alfredo Paredes, Jean Liu, and Noz Nowawa.

The 2023 Show’s Honorary Chair is Lauren Santo Domingo, Artistic Director of the Home Collection, Tiffany & Co.

The show, with its dynamic daily lecture series, will take place October 11 through October 16 at the Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture’s Festival Pavilion. CH

For more information and tickets, please visit sffallshow.org.

Books

REVIEWED BY KATHY BRYANT

Worlds of Wonder: Richard Hallberg Interiors

Text by Richard Hallberg with Mario Lopez-Cordero

Foreword by Dara Caponigro

Interior Designer Richard Hallberg says that he’s a classicist in terms of architecture. “When you create a space using this formula, interiors mirror the natural world, a necessity for a native Californian who thinks a house’s gardens are as important as its interiors and two of the most luxurious materials imaginable are simply fire and water,” writes Hallberg. This first book from Los Angeles-based designer Hallberg charts a body of work the spans seaside, mountaintop, country and urban locales. Each project celebrates his sensual, boundary-defying aesthetic. What the reader discovers in this book are spaces that defy easy categorization. Traditional and contemporary are combined as Hallberg uses art and objects from every genre and era—eighteenth-century gilt consoles, African baskets, selenite-slab tables—in a new interpretation of modernity that highlights the multifaceted, multicultural way we live today. Featured are spectacular homes in Napa, Montecito, Malibu, Santa Barbara, Mojave Desert, among others.

In the Foreword Dara Caponigro says that Hallberg’s an unparalleled “picker,” all done without any pretension. All the items in his rooms are calibrated to make a person feel utterly at home.The rooms reserve space for sunlight, foliage and the sound of trickling water. Hallberg uses the finest natural and artisanal materials—reclaimed wood, hand-troweled plaster, marble, limestone, crisp linen, sumptuous wool—all the while remembering that the greatest luxury is comfort. After reading Worlds of Wonder the reader would agree with Caponigro when she writes about feeling very lucky to stay in one of his creations. CH

Worlds of Wonder: Richard Hallberg Interiors

Text by Richard Hallberg with Mario Lopez-Cordero

Foreword by Dara Caponigro

288 pages

Hardcover 10x12-3/4 in $65 US

ISBN: 978-0-8478-6571-0

Rizzoli New York

415.490.5888

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REVIEWED BY KATHY BRYANT

Mexican: A Journey Through Design

Text by Newell Turner

Forward by Susana Ordovas

Mexican: A Journey Through Design is a lush, colorful love letter to a country that both Newell Turner and Susana Ordovas now call home at least part of the year. As Susana Ordovas, a Mexico City-based journalist and creative director, explains in her Foreword both Turner and she have a deep love for Mexico and Mexican design.

Newell Turner, who has been editorial director for many high-end national design magazines and is now a trustee of the New York School of Interior Design, searched the country for design and cultural details that are the essence of Mexican style. Turner writes, ”My story is a classic expat story: the combination of an escape and a search for something missing in my life.” This book is a testament to success of his search, resulting in an alluring journey that the reader is taken on.

The book is divided into historic chapters like PreColumbian, Baroque, Colonial, Art Deco, Modernism and Contemporary, among others. Each chapter has breathtaking photography that takes readers behind the walls, gates and doors of private Mexico. Each courtyard, loggia, chair, arrangement of flowers and, above all, color are part of a rich design heritage. Turner spent his magazine career chronicling American style and now his fascination is Mexico. It’s a real joy to explore the homes of Mexicans and other expats who share his passion for Mexico, both past and present. All are inspired by the country’s complex history and stunning landscapes. CH

Mexican: A Journey Through Design

Text by Newell Turner

Foreword by Susana Ordovas

264 pages, 225 color illustrations

Hardcover 9-1/4 x 12 inches

$60 US/$75 Canada

ISBN: 978-0-86565-423-5

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The Power of Photography Peter Fetterman Displays His Favorites

BY MICHAEL WEBB IMAGES COURTESY OF PETER FETTERMAN GALLERY

ART GALLERIES AND EXHIBITIONS proliferate throughout California but only a handful focus on photography. For the longest time, few curators and collectors took the medium seriously and you could pick up prints by the masters for ridiculously low prices. Even today, photography is undervalued. Power of Photography , an exhibition at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, showcases eighty prints, many of which deserve to be as well-known and respected as any modern artwork.

Premiere at Carthay Circle, Los Angeles, 1949

(c) Max Yavno, The Estate of Max Yavno

Frank Lloyd Wright, 1954

(c) Berenice Abbott, 2023 Estate of Berenice Abbott

The exhibition is based on a book of the same name by Peter Fetterman, who has championed the art of photography for the past 40 years. Peter grew up poor in London and found escape in the arts. He came to Hollywood to produce a movie and, though that project fell short, he stayed on and developed a passion for still images. His first acquisition, a classic image by Max Yavno, cost him almost every dollar he had. Just as Larry Gagosian got his start selling posters from a stall in Westwood before becoming a master of the art universe, so did Peter have a humble start, trading photographs from the back of his jalopy. That ad hoc venture evolved into his spacious gallery in Santa Monica’s Bergamot Station.

Peter’s taste is eclectic and embraces a century of creativity, but the pictures that move him the most are those by the humanists: photographers who focus on the human condition. He has forged personal friendships with many of these, from Henri Cartier-Bresson to Sebastiaõ Salgado, the Brazilian activist who has chronicled endangered tribes and the imperiled wonders of nature. The Bowers exhibition features many of his

favorite images. Here are memorable portraits of Frank Lloyd Wright and Yves St Laurent , a stunning view of California route 1 as it winds through Big Sur, and a vista of Saõ Paulo where men stroll on a roof terrace high above a bustling street.

Peter has a nostalgia for the England of his childhood and the glamor of Paris in the postwar years when French couturiers reigned supreme. Here is a surreal image by Melvin Sokolsky of a model floating in a plexi bubble above a forest and a deadpan study of a uniformed chauffeur parked in Knightsbridge with a poodle in the next seat. Cartier Bresson is represented by an intimate study of

his cat, drowsing in an armchair. Max Yavno’s iconic image of a klieg-lit premiere at the long-vanished Carthay Circle Theater is a time capsule of old Hollywood.

These are a few of the highlights, but the exhibition covers a much wider range of human experience, city life and the natural world. A young Queen Elizabeth with her corgis warmed by an electric fire in the hearth—a world away from the pomp of royalty. A parade of trilbys at a fathers’ day picnic in 1948. The Beatles and Rolling Stones in their prime, Ansel Adams’ moving portrait of ragged migrant children, and two white pears framed by a dark bowl. What a world of wonders is here! CH

The Power of Photography runs October 7January 14, 2024 at the Bowers Museum, 2002 North Main Street, Santa Ana, bowers.org

BELOW São Paulo, Brazil (Men on Rooftop), 1960 (c) René Burri/Magnum Photos

Highway 1 Big Sur, CA, 1963

(c) Henry Gilpin, The Estate of Henry Gilpin

La Dolce Vita, Knightsbridge, London, 1953. (c) Thurston Hopkins/The Grace Robertson/Thurston Hopkins Archive

Photograph: Roger Davies

DESIGN LEADERS

The San Francisco Showroom HEWN Celebrates a New Location

AFTER A DECADE OF BEING A VIBRANT PART OF THE San Francisco Design Center community, the HEWN showroom has spread its wings to a 10,000-square-foot space just a short walk down the street. Known for their excellent customer service, which includes an innovative new app, the visionary co-founders Jeff Holt and Peter West are looking forward to creating a space accessible to more customers and a business model that reflects the times and current shopping habits of designers and consumers. We briefly chatted with Jeff and Peter to learn more about their business’s new location and growth. CH

Hewn, 299 Kansas Street, San Francisco, 415.962.7833, hewnsf.com

CH What can you offer your customers in the new space that you could not at SFDC?

J&P Now that we have a streetfacing entry, we can control the HEWN experience when you walk in the door. A dramatic entry welcomes you to our 10,000 SF showroom space on the second floor. With six dedicated parking spaces in the parking lot and a 30-minute metered space out front, it will be easier for our customers to visit, shop and load any purchases or samples. Leaving the SFDC was a tough decision; it’s been our home for 11 years. We want to introduce new customers to our incredible makers and craftspeople. We’re planning monthly events to continue bringing our community together to educate, celebrate and collaborate! It’s just what we do.

CH Tell us about your new App.

J&P The App was conceived to address the inefficiencies of shopping for textiles and requesting memo samples in the showroom, but the concept grew. Handwriting fabric names, numbers, and colorways are cumbersome and offer no way for us, as a showroom, to capture metrics on what samples are requested. Now a simple scan with the App on a mobile phone sends the designer’s request to our Memo Sample Department to be pulled. A push notification advises when the order is ready for pick up.

As we developed the App, we added a feature that allows one to scan a price tag in the showroom, and a tear sheet immediately uploads to the App. With that digital copy on your device, you can save or share it with teammates and clients. But one of the most outstanding features is the SHOP option. You can shop and request samples from anywhere and select whether you’d like them sent directly or prefer to pick them up. We have developed a Social platform within the App to foster community and, lastly, our HTV feature featuring in-house video content from the HEWN team. We encourage you to download the App today!

CH How do you select the lines you carry?

J&P We ask ourselves if the product or aesthetic is a category we don’t currently offer. Is the company well-run with effective sales tools and support? And do their company values align with our Core Values? We aren’t changing the world, but we are changing how people live and experience their world, so if it makes sense and fits our vision, we bring it in.

Created by John Liston, a seasoned metal worker who started his career in jewelry design and honed his skills in custom glass and metal foundries before opening his San Francisco studio.

Three-door Louver Cabinet with vertical louver detail—made from aged brass and walnut. The statement piece also has a practical ventilation feature for hidden audio equipment.

TOM MUYTERS

Belgian designer Tom Muyters design is inspired by organic, sculptural lines with detailed proportion and balance. The Concept 1.2 dining table has a signature brass base with a stone top.

Available through Una Malan Los Angeles, 800 North La Cienega Blvd., 310.734.7077 San Francisco, 101 Henry Adams Street, No. 330, 415.913.7219, unamalan.com

HEAVY METAL

A Collection of Finely Crafted Pieces that Showcase the Strength and Beauty of the Material

J. LISTON

Denarii Cocktail Table is made with satin brass, brass with hand-rubbed bronze patina, and blackened steel. Available in round and oval.

Available through COUP D’ETAT San Francisco, 111 Rhode Island Street, 415.241.9300

Los Angeles, 100 North Robertson Blvd., 323.825.5880 coupdetatsf.com

ELAN ATELIER

Founded by Alison Legge and Christopher Noto, the studio is driven by a deep appreciation of traditional methods, quality materials and modern innovation.

The Tassel console design is ornamental and complex, with rich detail and Eastern influence that rewards careful study.

Available through Quintus Los Angeles, 8687 Melrose Avenue, No. B527, 323.634.1924 quintushome.com

PHILIP NIMMO

Inspired by a drawing by designer Philip Nimmo, the Gio table lamp is made of aged bronze iron with interior textured edges highlighted with gold to add a layer of detail.

Available in San Francisco at HEWN, 299 Kansas Street, 415.962.7833

Los Angeles, QUINTUS quintushome.com

J. LISTON

services. If you follow Ben on Instagram, you know he is a passionate traveler and curious student; most recently, he traveled to Egypt, Jordan, South of France, England, Paris, and Berlin. Next spring, he is taking Miles Redd, Mary McDonald, Martyn Lawrence Bullard and other bold-name designers on an insiders’ trip to explore 18th-century Chinese Wallcovering in stately British homes. The trip sold out in a day—luckily, he is organizing another in the fall of 2024 for all who missed the first trip. A man of infinite style and bounds of energy. We asked him a few questions to learn more about the creative process for his SF Fall Show vignette. CH

benjamindhong.com | sffallshow.org

CH What is the theme for your SF Fall Show vignette?

BD “La Dolce Vita”..aka “the Sweet Life”. It’s just a wonderful theme, don’t you think? Especially since I love all things Italian!

CH Can you share the creative process with de Gournay for the bespoke wallcovering?

BD The de Gournay family is lovely to work for and has assembled the most amazingly talented team of creatives. I’ve known the family for years, and it is always inspiring,

elevating, and, frankly, a lot of fun to be in their midst. They are pushing me into new territories of embroidered wallcovering. I’ve been a tad thrifty in using it in our projects, but the Fall Show gives me a magnificent opportunity to dip my toes into all that silken thread. Hope it doesn’t ruin me!

CH Are you incorporating any design features inspired by your travels?

BD Absolutely! When you think of “La Dolce Vita,” you think immediately of curvaceous blonde bombshell Anita Eckberg and the sizzling Marcello Mastroianni taking a

midnight dip in the Trevi Fountain. Aside from the embroidered wallpaper, we are using a stunning Art Moderne sideboard from the Netherlands. My mother’s family is from Holland, and the Low Countries get short shrift, and its nice to feature their schools of furniture.

CH What piece would you buy for your private collection If budget was not an issue?

BD Aside from a crazy love of chairs, I would love a canvas by J.M.W Turner, Cy Twombly, or Joan Mitchell. CH

Brancusi inspired geometric wood floor sculptures by West Elm

A pair of Girandole mirrors from Antonio’s Bella Casa

A detail of a de Gournay artisan at work

FRAME-UP

LA Art Exchange Offer their Expertise

MICHAEL WEBB

A GOOD PICTURE FRAME IS like a bespoke suit, crafted to make the wearer look good, not draw attention to itself. A tailor has to take into account the age, figure and personality of the client; a picture framer must consider the nature of the artwork, the owner’s taste and budget, and where the picture is to hang. Jayne Zehngut has been doing this for 36 years, ever since she took over her late husband’s business and opened the LA Art Exchange in Santa Monica. Collectors, gallerists and interior designers patronize the store and they do

framing for such corporations as Disney and Sony, but firsttimers are assured of a warm welcome and expert advice.

That’s important because there’s a selection of 5000 moldings from which to choose. As Jayne observes, “there’s a demand for every style. A vintage map of California might look best in a traditional frame. But we put a historic portrait, inherited as a family heirloom, into a smoky lucite frame because the owner preferred super-modern décor. A gilded, baroque frame could look stunning in a Spanish-style home. Frame manufacturers are influenced by trends in fashion and interior design, so our samples are constantly changing.”

“The focus of framing is to enhance the piece, not distract from it,” says Jayne. “If a customer requests a red mat we may point out that it will

overwhelm the artwork but, if they insist, we’ll do it.” She praises her team of designers, whom she selected for their artistic background. “They want to be creative and will often select something that surprises me.” And her chief framer—one of six—has been with her since the store opened. Moving to a larger space allows her to do

everything under one roof, so the artwork never leaves the store, but she sources moldings from as far away as Columbia and Peru. Then there are the technicalities. Plexi has displaced glass, offering an unbreakable protection from ultra-violet rays. Museum grade plexi is costly but it absorbs reflections, which is crucial when dark colors are involved. Occasionally, when an artist’s print employs a heavy stock, the plexi can be omitted, as it is on most paintings. Richard Serra insists that his etchings be fully exposed.

LA Art Exchange is proud of its versatility and skill in conservation. “We want to be sure that the frame is solidly constructed

and that, when something is removed it’s in the same condition as when it went in,” says Jayne. “We framed some Gustav Klimts for the grandson of the man who had done framing for the artist in Vienna a century before. But it’s not just precious works of art. We know how to make a football jersey or a signed baseball stand out. One woman had a collage of memorabilia from her deceased dog. One extreme to another; that’s what’s so fascinating about this job and it gives me joy.” CH

LA Art Exchange, 922 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, 310.828.6866, gallery@laartexchange.com

“The focus of framing is to enhance the piece, not distract from it.”

–JAYNE ZEHNGUT

WALKING ON AERIS

Kevin Harvey’s Rhys Vineyards Develops High In The Hills Above Dry Creek Valley To Make Italian Grapes Shine

BY SARAH BRAY | PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF AERIS

FOR ANY ITALIAN WINE LOVER, the grapes nebbiolo, nerello mascalese, and carricante elicit great emotion. They speak of place and let your mind wander to bucket list destinations; they evoke mouthwatering meals; and at their finest, they are transcendent, defying expectations of time and age. However, unlike widely and successfully exported French varieties like cabernet sauvignon and chardonnay, these magical grapes, grown in Piedmont and Mt. Etna respectively, have not been able to find the same success outside of their native environments.

AERIS, a new project from Kevin Harvey of Rhys vineyards, is setting out to change this. Rhys is renowned for their work with pinot noir and chardonnay across diverse soils and marginal climates. But the team shared a love of Italian wines and dreamed of making world-class examples here in California. After a failed attempt at planting nebbiolo in the Santa Cruz mountains, they revised their assumptions. “Really the

genesis for all of this was kind of a basic question—why do Italian varieties seem to not perform well outside of Italy?” notes winemaker Jeff Brinkman. This inquiry prompted the Rhys winemaking team to embark on a Quixotic quest to work with these grapes, one that started in Italy and made its way back to Sonoma County.

In the early aughts, Harvey was in Tuscany on vacation and asked for a mineral-driven white wine from the sommelier, who brought out Benanti’s Pietra Marina. This is widely considered to be the benchmark white wine of Mt. Etna, from the carricante grape, and Harvey’s mind was blown. He wrote his team immediately asking if they’d heard of the wine, and they said, Yeah, we just discovered this recently. It was kismet, necessary to then dive deeper. In 2012, a relationship with Salvo Foti, the original winemaker behind Pietra Marina and one of winegrowers who helped put Etna on the map, was formed, and their odyssey began.

Harvey then purchased land on Mt. Etna, becoming the first American to do so, but also began an even more formidable process: importing plant material into the US. Foti selected cuttings from his own vineyards on the volcano and submitted them for testing by UC Davis to make sure that the plants were healthy and virus-free. Only then could they utilize the approved material to propagate a new California vineyard project.

They enlisted the help of Giampiero Romana, an agronomist from Piedmont, and looking at the data, they were stunned to see how warm the Barolo region, home of nebbiolo, which sits in the foothills of the Alps, actually is. The alcohol levels of the wines regularly bear this out; 14.5 percent alcohol is not uncommon for great Barolo. On the other hand, the vineyards on the foothills of Mt. Etna, even though that’s located in Sicily in the middle of the Mediterranean, are at elevation, so they’re cooler. Climactically, they kind of meet in the middle–at least

THE BARKER HANGAR | SANTA MONICA

that’s what the AERIS team has posited and based their planting decisions on. With Romana, they searched for a place that would encapsulate the factors that they needed to prove their hypothesis, ultimately finding them in western Sonoma County at what would become the Centennial vineyard.

High in the hills above the Dry Creek Valley, at 2,100 feet above sea level, the site is in a literal no man’s land. Driving up and down winding roads snaking around the Lake Sonoma dam, suddenly, you emerge onto this hilltop planted with single-staked vines in the style of the little trees, or alberelli, of Mt. Etna, next to rows of vines of other Italian grapes. Astounding to consider nebbiolo, carricante, and nerello mascalese planted in the same 20-acre parcel, when back in Italy they’re separated by over 800 miles, but the core of AERIS’ approach lies in understanding the critical role of climate in the success of Italian grape varieties.

Brinkman has come to believe that the grape has been planted in the wrong conditions, emulating what people think Northern

Italy should feel like, rather than looking at what it is: “It was the revelation on why we assumed Italian varieties weren’t working, especially in California, where they’re being planted in valley floors, where you have these gigantic diurnals, where you can’t burn off the acidity. A lot of times you end up stuck with either high sugar, high acid, or both.” When it came to finding the right site, they needed to look for something at elevation, above the fog line, where the nights stay a bit warmer, “where you can lose some of that acidity. And all of a sudden, you can make a balanced wine.” But developing new vineyards are a risky and expensive venture because it takes years from buying land to harvesting fruit. Would the gamble be worth it?

Despite the risk and the huge level of investment, Brinkman says they don’t really see this as a win-lose binary, but rather an ongoing experiment, one that may have particular significance in the context of a changing climate. Italian varieties like carricante are meant for hot weather, fully ripening with refreshing acidity and relatively low alcohols. “It’s more of a, can we make it

work? Let’s see how well we can do with […] making these varieties [taste] varietal, and then potentially having something that might be useful for the industry as a whole going forward. That’s cool,” he muses.

Brinkman brought a few bottles of early releases to the vineyard to taste on site. I was more than a bit skeptical, but as we sipped, I was delighted to find the whites showed the characteristic waxiness supporting the fruit intensity of the wines; the nerello was ripe and red-fruited, with a classic grippy, pithy finish; and the nebbiolo was hands-down the best expression of the grape I’ve ever tasted outside of Italy. From anywhere in the world. And Brinkman says the wines going into bottle right now are the best they’ve made to date:

“The 21’s are so insanely good, head and shoulders above anything we’ve done. I think it’s a combination of vine age finally starting to pay off and just a little bit more knowledge about what we’re doing with both farming and winemaking, trying to get a handle on it.” It seems the gamble may already be paying off. CH aeriswines.com

“It’s more of a, can we make it work? Let’s see how well we can do with […] making these varieties [taste] varietal, and then potentially having something that might be useful for the industry as a whole going forward. That’s cool.”

–JEFF BRINKERMAN, WINEMAKER

Entertaining

A GOOD YEAR

Caren Rideau Celebrates A Sweet Trifecta As Designer, Winemaker, And Author

BY JENNIFER BLAISE KRAMER | PHOTOGRAPHY BY MEGHAN BEIERLE-O’BRIEN

SHE’S KNOWN FOR CREATING beautiful hearts of the home as founder of The Kitchen Design Group, but Caren Rideau has a couple of other loves. When not obsessing over sinks and stoves for clients, she’s contemplating tastings and labels as a winemaker for Tierra Y Vino. And to tie it all together, she adores cooking and hosting intimate

get-togethers, especially on the vineyard, which caters to casual, easy-going dinners. In her recent book, Caren Rideau: Kitchen Designer, Vintner, and Entertaining at Home (Pointed Leaf Press, 2022), the author beautifully weaves together stories, images, and recipes of her favorite things: kitchens, wine, and entertaining.

RIGHT Designer and winemaker Caren Rideau collaborated with potter Gorky Gonzales for her own set of colorful dishware, nodding to her Southwestern roots.

OPPOSITE A table for two is positioned with sweeping views of the mountains and vineyards in Santa Ynez.

“I’m always doing one of the three— my work life is one long thread that just goes on every day,” Rideau says. “Switching between kitchens and vineyards is easier than one might think!”

The book documents her crossover of work and play while showing the beauty of life behind the scenes. Rideau splits her time between L.A. and Santa Ynez with her partner and co-winemaker, Andres Ibarra, who has been working on vineyards since he was a teenager. She laughs, “He’s been making wine as long as I’ve been making kitchens!” The two began their own label in 2012 and can’t get enough of life in the country from the vineyards and views to the farmlands and fresh produce. “Being in Santa Ynez, you just fall in love with the setting—it’s more

effortless.” Which is exactly how she likes to entertain.

Guests who come for dinner usually get a stroll through the vineyard where it might not be surprising to see Rideau herself on the four-wheeler with her dog, Lola, and an ice-cold trough (adorned in a beautiful picnic blanket, of course) of wine bottles coming their way. At the table, a smattering of vintage linens work their way over every surface, paired with wooden bowls, collected silverware, and ceramic dishware. “I’m obsessed with linens and pottery,” she says. “Nothing has to match—they just have to be happy together.”

For pottery, Rideau recently collaborated with Gorky Gonzalez, an artist she admired for a long time, to produce her own signature line. While his work is deeply rooted in Mexican heritage,

“I’m always doing one of the three—my work life is one long thread that just goes on every day. Switching between kitchens and vineyards is easier than one might think!”

–CAREN RIDEAU

ABOVE Easy appetizers are served, including tomato tarts from Bob’s Well Bread.

TOP RIGHT Caren Rideau puts the finishing touches on the table, layered in linens she’s collected over the years.

LEFT Collected chairs and textiles (tablecloths and blankets) keep things as casual as the jugs of wildflowers and herbs on the table.

OPPOSITE BELOW LEFT Big bowls of fruit are the host’s go-to, doubling as colorful snacks and décor.

OPPOSITE BELOW RIGHT Easy picnic baskets are always on hand, ready here with baguettes and bottles.

Rideau looked to her own upbringing in Arizona for inspiration, designing around cacti and desert blooms in shades of green and orange that work perfectly with her linens.

SPRING

To keep with her casual vibe, Spanish music wafts overhead while jugs of wildflowers grace the tables. “When I’m in the vineyard I don’t like to take away from the view, so I usually go out and cut what’s indigenous like greenery and herbs.”

When it comes to the menu, there’s plenty of flavor and color, much like her kitchens. For this dinner with friends, she and Andres did grilled chicken with an olive tapenade paired with lots of grilled vegetables like eggplant and asparagus. Sides included shishito peppers and grilled lemon, a pear and pecan salad with blue cheese, and tomato

tarts from Bob’s Well Bread. Bowls of peaches and cherries are as appe

tizing as they are cheerful for quick and pretty snacks.

And much like her popular and wildly published kitchens, everything on the menu is beautiful, but nothing is fussy. “I don’t want it to be complicated, because I don’t entertain that way,” Rideau says. And as the evening rolls on and the wines flow, she has. only one strict rule: guests never do dishes. “I try to make things easy so we can all enjoy being together.” Because a good time is always important. CH

ABOVE Rideau lives by a rule that friends never do dishes when they come over. They just toast and have fun.

TOP LEFT Lola, always used to life on the vineyard, is ready for company.

Grilled Chicken Thighs

Ingredients

• 2 pounds of skinless boneless chicken thighs

• 1/3 cup olive oil

• 1/4 cup red wine vinegar

• 1 shallot, peeled, and thinly sliced

• 4 rosemary sprigs, removed from stem

• Salt and pepper for seasoning

Preparation

1. Season chicken on both sides with salt and pepper.

2. In a large mixing bowl, mix together olive oill, vinegar, shallots, and rosemary.

3. Add chicken and marinate in refridgerator for a minimum of 3-4 hours.

4. Remove chicken from refridgerator 30-45 minutes prior to grilling. (Caren prefers to grill room-temperature chicken.)

5. Sear chicken thighs on grill over medium-high heat, 3-5 minutes on each side. Ensure chicken is throughly cooked to an interal temperature of 165 degrees at thickest section of chicken thigh.

6. Remove from grill and enjoy!

Green Olive Gremolota

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup Castelvetrano pitted olives, finely chopped

• 2 tbsp red wine vinegar

• 1 tbsp lemon juice

• 1 tbsp lemon zest

• 1/2 cup fresh Italian parsley, chopped

• 2 cloves of garlic, finely chopped

• 2 tsp red chili flakes

• 1 tsp Himalayan salt

• 1/2 tsp black pepper

Preparation

1. Mix chopped garlic, red chili flakes, salt, pepper, and olive oil in medium mixing bowl.

2. Add olives, herbs, lemon juice, lemon zest, and red wine vinegar to mixture.

3. Add salt and pepper to taste.

4. Add additional red wine vinegar to preffereed acidity.

5. Allow mixture to marinate for at least 30 minutes. Mixture should marinate for 2-6 hours for optimal taste.

FEATURES CH

MUSEUM QUALITY

CABANA HOME MODERNIZES A COOL MONTECITO HOUSE, FILLED WITH SCULPTURAL, ARTFUL ACCENTS

TEXT JENNIFER BLAISE KRAMER | PHOTOGRAPHY MEGHAN BEIERLE O’BRIEN

A new, oversized steel door makes a prominent entrance to this Montecito home where there wasn’t one before.

RIGHT Rift cut oak floors replaced heavy marble throughout to keep things elegant and California casual.

HEN A FAMILY FROM OUT OF TOWN purchased a hillside home in Montecito, they wanted to make some changes to better suit their lifestyle—and style. As lovers of art and architecture, they were enthralled by the original linear elements, but several structural aspects and finishes needed to be altered to make it more livable. Plus, they hoped for a stronger canvas on which to showcase their art collection. And—they needed to do it all remotely. By enlisting Santa Barbarabased Cabana Home to be their boots on ground, the homeowners were able to capture exactly what they wanted, even from miles and miles away.

LEFT Designer Steve Thompson of Cabana Home casually matches the décor.

ABOVE Leather and metal club chairs echo the kitchen barstools.

LEFT In the guesthouse, a spiral staircase makes an architectural statement.

BELOW A narrow walkway wraps around the home to the guesthouse, creating a retreat-like feel.

“Most all of the renovation was done via Facetime,” says Steve Thompson, designer and co-founder of Cabana Home, adding that virtual design has become a major part of their business. “It’s a very modern way of doing a house. The homeowners couldn’t be here to make on the spot decisions, so we stepped in to conceptualize it and make it as good as it could be.”

One key change was simply lightening up. The overall color palette was dated with yellow walls inside and golden stucco out. “Everything became museum white,” Thompson says. This was perfectly fitting for the clients’ artwork to pop inside while adding curb appeal out front. Before you couldn’t tell where the front door was so the team raised one of the newly white walls and

In the nearby dining room, a glass blown light fixture in the style of Chihuly adds a sculptural, sea-inspired splash. “It almost looks like the tops of waves,” Thompson says, adding that opting for glass overhead kept everything clear and clean, just like the home.

ABOVE Lighting runs bright from a linear fireplace in the living room to a sculptural sea-inspired chandelier in the dining room.

RIGHT Traditional circular can lights were replaced by sleeker, square ones to make things more modern.

added a giant new steel door, creating a proper entrance. Here, the courtyard is filled with lush green landscaping while new hedges lend a layer of privacy to better shield it from the street.

In the back, a romantic pathway winds through the trees, leading to a private guesthouse with its own spiral staircase. The pool got its own upgrade as old flagstone pavers were replaced with white concrete tiles, continuing the clean, modern vibe. Equally light and bright is the outdoor living room with its streamlined banquette and linear fireplace for year-round entertaining.

Another factor was opening up. Inside, they lifted the doorways to all be consistently ten feet high (whereas some were six or eight feet) with no headers for that same contemporary look. They also reconfigured the floorplan to add a third bedroom, stealing from a closet to create bath access. The formerly U-shaped kitchen got flipped to open up the den and a breakfast nook, while getting a facelift. Traditional, round, five-inch can lights were swapped out for modern squares while simple pendants cast a glow on the lacquered cabinets.

When choosing materials, everything was luxe yet neutral to let the bright purple and green artwork and accents shine. That authentic kitchen cabinet lacquer is echoed again in the primary bedroom on a leather and lacquer headboard, mixing with the linens and wools in the room. All of the heavy marble floors throughout the home were replaced with pale, rift-cut oak hardwoods (which have a lack of stain that the designer says adds to the beauty), however they added a deliberately veined marble to waterfall over the kitchen island, making its own artistic statement.

In the nearby dining room, a glass blown light fixture in the style of Chihuly adds a sculptural, sea-inspired splash. “It almost looks like the tops of waves,” Thompson says, adding that opting for glass overhead kept everything clear and clean, just like the home. “We didn’t want to take away from the views of the Pacific.” Especially when the view is perhaps the piece de resistance in the home. CH

BELOW White concrete tiles replaced old pavers to make the outdoor pool area as streamlined as the interior.

OPPOSITE TOP A leather and lacquered headboard gets geometric pattern against a textural grass cloth wallcovering.

OPPOSITE BOTTOM Views pour into the bathtub, where marble works its way around the deck and up the wall.

Matthew O’Dorisio helmed the interior revamp of a stately Menlo Park mansion.

OPPOSITE Lush landscaping adds to the sophisticated appeal of the home.

FRESH COLORS

FOR A MENLO PARK HOME

DESIGNER MATTHEW O’DORISIO RETURNS TO THIS ORIGINAL PROJECT WITH MAJOR DESIGN CHANGES

TEXT KAVITA DASWANI | PHOTOGRAPHY KARYN MILLET

WHEN MATTHEW O’DORISIO received the request to refurbish part of a stately Menlo Park mansion, it was an easy yes on his part. After all, O’Dorisio had helmed the interior design of all of the 7,000 square foot home 14 years earlier, with the same client.

“I”ve known the client a long time, and they wanted to make some big changes,” said O’Dorisio, whose design practice is headquartered in Los Angeles. “It was very beautiful before, with lots of blue tones. But they’ve lived in the house for years and wanted to make it more punchy, with more color and new, fresh fabrics. It needed to be perked up.”

One of the immediate decisions made by O’Dorisio and his client was to veer away from painted walls as much as possible, and instead to opt for lush, highly decorative wallpaper. Those choices were partly based on the Southern-inspired architecture of the house, with its classic black shutters and welcoming outdoor terraces, as well as the pool surrounded by hydrangeas. O’Dorisio took a very targeted approach with the revamp, zeroing in on upholstery, new carpeting and the walls, and opting for “a very different general feel from what we have done before.”

“The client grew up in Southern California and always wanted a white house with black shutters,” said O’Dorisio “She has beautiful taste and she wanted the house to feel like it had some history. Inside, we painted all the doors black, and placed crystal knobs on them.”

The painted woodwork and wainscotting also give the house more depth, he said.

“There’s a formality to the dining and living rooms and when you go into the family room, there are navy blue bookshelves that feel like they have layers, and have been there a long time.”

Curtains from Sister Parish frame the elegant living room. Chairs are upholstered in fabric from Ferrick Mason available at Harbinger in Los Angeles. Pillows by Clay McLaurin. The sofa fabric is from Cowtan and Tout with sofas from Lisa Fine Textiles. The lampshade is by Fermoie.

ABOVE Stools in the kitchen are by Serena and Lily, with lanterns from Visual Comfort.

BELOW RIGHT The window seat is covered in fabric from Clay McLaurin Studio. The tables and chairs are custom-made.

In the living room, O’Dorisio selected a traditional Asian lacquered coffee table at first, before stumbling across a vintage cocktail table. This fit in with the client’s sensibility; she had a number of antiques from her mother’s house. For the sofas, O’Dorisio went with fairly traditional shapes but covered them in intriguing, surprising fabrics - including a deep, plush blue velvet for the living room - which ended up being the starting point for the space.

“It wasn’t an easy sell,” he said.”But I told her, ‘I know you’re going to love it.’” Fully upholstered stools were added to add a younger, fresher feel.

O’Dorisio and his client spent a great deal of time focusing on the wallpaper, ending up with pieces that seamlessly fit the spaces they are in.

“The first thing we did was to put a tone-on-tone white stripe in the entrance way and through the staircase,” he said of the Rebecca Atwood design. “And then we kept going with it.” Other examples include a pretty pattern that has a subtle nature print on top before blooming into larger flowers towards the base, and a coral-and-white floral design in the bathroom.

That warmth extended to the outside, where the client was inspired by the Paul Ferrante lanterns suspended from a majestic oak tree at the Ojai Valley Inn - itself the subject of many an Instagram post; and created something similar in her backyard.

“They definitely wanted the whole house to be more fun and not quite so serious,” said O’Dorisio. “Even though there’s not a lot of color, and quite a lot of blue, it’s a sharper look for the house…it’s fun and fresh and exactly what she wanted.” CH

Rebecca Atwood wallpaper is used for the living room, with the area rug by Stark Carpets. The stools are upholstered in fabric from Bennison Aksum and chairs upholstered in fabric from Lee Jofa.

“They definitely wanted the whole house to be more fun and not quite so serious,” said O’Dorisio. “Even though there’s not a lot of color, and quite a lot of blue, it’s a sharper look for the house… it’s fun and fresh and exactly what she wanted.”

ABOVE/BELOW In the dining room: chairs are covered in fabric from Rebecca Atwood, the wallpaper is by De Gourney’s Chinoiserie Collection and the area rug is by Stark Carpets. The ceiling paint is from Farrow and Ball.

LEFT The outdoor landscaping was inspired by the Paul Ferrante lights suspended from a tree at the Ojai Valley Inn.

TOP RIGHT A charming outdoor dining space was outfitted in pieces from Janus et Cie.

RIGHT In the guest bedroom: lighting is by Foundry and the rug from Stark Carpets.

OPPOSITE A sofa in the primary bedroom is upholstered in fabric from Suzanne Rheinstein for Lee Jofa. The lantern is by Urban Electric .

In the living room, a Bimma Loft ottoman tucks neatly under the glass-topped Echelin coffee table.

CALM, COOL & COMFORTABLE

A HILLSIDE RESIDENCE OVERLOOKING THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY NOW EXUDES BEAUTY INSIDE AND OUT

IT’S NOT OFTEN that an interior designer points to a laundry room as a highlight of a project. Such is the case for Joo Y. Oh, whose clients in Belvedere desired a venue where they could not only wash and fold but that would also serve as the sleeping quarters for the two canines in residence. “I hadn’t done such a fun laundry room,” she enthuses. “They wanted two beds for the dogs — and for them to have a really nice, comfortable space.”

The walls are lined in Holly Hunt’s Granada grass cloth in Ocean, its strié raffia weave lending texture. Underfoot, Casa Vita Bella’s Palmera motif, in shades of gray and blue, packs a visual punch; the durable porcelain tiles are suitable for indoor or outdoor applications. Indeed, Oh saw to it that the laundry room was both striking and sensible — much like the rest of the 5,500-square-foot house.

By the time the homeowners enlisted the principal and founder of Studio JYO, the French country kitchen had already been demoed (think: turned legs and decorative moldings). Sutro Architects ultimately devised a kitchen with a “clean and crisp” aesthetic, says Oh, who worked in harmony with the firm to “modernize the home while maintaining its soft and warm character. We tried to keep some of the traditional elements but bring it up to date.”

Take the exposed wood vaulted ceiling. “We were really fortunate to inherit that beautiful ceiling,” she says. “The tone of the wood worked quite well, so we didn’t touch it at all.” However, the wood flooring, with its golden reddish appearance, was replaced with stained white oak. “We wanted to make sure it had a light and airy feeling—and that the ceiling and floor went together,” she explains.

The walls throughout are painted in Benjamin Moore’s Simply White, a neutral backdrop for the clients’ art collection. With the couple’s palette preference in mind—Benjamin Moore’s

A photograph by Aaron Leitz hangs above the fireplace, near a BDDW Lake credenza, Proteus armchair from De Sousa Hughes and Bertu Home side table.

OPPOSITE The property includes a 5,500-square-foot main house and a 900-square-foot guest house—with the shingle siding for both painted in Benjamin Moore’s Ashland Slate 50%— plus boasts lush grounds.

Sutro Architects ultimately devised a kitchen with a “clean and crisp” aesthetic, says Oh, who worked in harmony with the firm to “modernize the home while maintaining its soft and warm character. We tried to keep some of the traditional elements but bring it up to date.”

ABOVE In the dining room, Tod Von Mertens’ Water’s Rising Table, from De Sousa Hughes, is flanked by De La Espada Capo chairs from The Future Perfect—with a Matthew McCormick chandelier overhead and an FQ Designs rug underfoot.

OPPOSITE In the kitchen, designer Joo Y. Oh selected Skylar Morgan’s Arc counter stools and an Apollo chandelier.

Hale Navy was an early inspiration—blue is a common thread from room to room. “I love incorporating different tones of the same colors for many of my projects,” Oh notes. “It calms the room but provides depth of colors.”

In a powder room, Pierre Frey’s Yangzi wallcovering in Océan “was one of the first things I picked for the house,” says Oh, who mated the stylized wave motif with Urban Electric’s Hockney wall sconces. Their rectangular backplates impart pops of blue, as the design itself channels artist David Hockney’s swimming pool paintings.

Relying on grayish blue as a predominant color, Oh layered in contrasting accents. The neighboring living and dining rooms are each appointed with graphic rugs in different blues, while the decorative pillows on the sofa and the dining chair upholstery

add rust and coral hues to the scheme. (That color combination is found in the laundry room, too.) Calacatta Oro is another repeating element, chosen by Sutro Architects for the kitchen island, countertops, and the living room fireplace’s surround and hearth.

Despite retaining significant aspects of the primary bathroom, like its marble surfaces, Oh’s vision yielded a remarkable transformation. The wooden double vanity and bathtub skirt were revamped with white paint. Changing out details such as the cabinet hardware, sconces, and mirrors also proved dramatic. Oh installed a pair of Arch Window mirrors from The Future Perfect, whose bronze edge creates the illusion of depth, and took them up a notch, collaborating with a cabinetmaker to turn them into medicine cabinets. (Expanses of mirror that previously sheathed a corner were removed.)

ABOVE A powder room is appointed with Pierre Frey’s Yangzi wallcovering, McGee & Co.’s Rye mirror and Urban Electric’s Hockney wall sconces.

LEFT In a guest bedroom, Arhaus’ Helen nightstand was chosen by Oh to complement the clients’ furnishings.

LEFT A powder room is appointed with Pierre Frey’s Yangzi wallcovering, McGee & Co.’s Rye mirror and Urban Electric’s Hockney wall sconces.

BELOW The primary bathroom features the Arch Window mirrors from The Future Perfect, along with Covet tall box sconces from Visual Comfort and cabinet hardware from Joseph Giles.

When the house was on the market several years ago, the real estate listing focused on the “breathtaking panoramic views” of the San Francisco Bay, Golden Gate Bridge, Sausalito and the Marin Headlands. Although it is still a defining feature of the property— as are its expansive decks—after the ingenious efforts by Studio JYO and Sutro Architects, there are now plenty more virtues inside, too. “My goal as a designer is to deliver a home that is livable and warm, yet modern and clean,” says Oh.

That approach extends to every occupant of the home, including the four-legged family members. CH

OPPOSITE As viewed from the bayside boardwalk, the home melds modern lines with organic elements, such as stone and wood, to open on to the views.

A balcony off the master suite has watery views. Furniture is by RH.

BALANCE ON

BALBOA ISLAND

ARCHITECT CHRIS BRANDON AND INTERIOR DESIGNER

JODI FLEMING CRAFT A BAYSIDE HOME THAT MELDS CONTEMPORARY WITH TRADITIONAL ELEMENTS

TEXT NORA BURBA TRULSSON | PHOTOGRAPHY LISA ROMEREIN

In the living room, comfortable seating is upholstered in beachfriendly Perennials fabrics, while wood cabinetry, including the bar, adds a warm touch. The entry’s Dutch door allows breezes in and keeps the family dog in. Painting is by Tilly Treuren.

STEPS AWAY FROM THE WATER’S edge, a newly built bay-front home embraces sunlight, breezes and hours spent on the beach or in a boat, with a transitional design that welcomes an easy family lifestyle. Finding a balance between modernism and traditional design, as well as making sure the clients’ programming needs were met on a small lot were challenges that were met with aplomb, thanks to the design expertise of architect Chris Brandon and interior designer Jodi Fleming.

“The husband wanted something contemporary, while the wife was leaning traditional,” says Brandon of the clients, a couple with adult children and a grandchild. “They were downsizing, but they wanted a house where the family could gather and they could entertain.”

Brought to the project by builder Tony Valentine, Brandon and Fleming created a home that checked all the boxes. “On Balboa Island, lots are small and building codes are tough,” explains Brandon, “so you are literally designing within an inch.” The narrow, wedge-shaped lot, explains the architect, faced the island’s boardwalk and bay on one side and had alley access on the other—all of which inspired 2,300-square-foot, two-level plan featuring a garage off the alley, a side entry and a patio and balcony that face the water. Bonus space? A generously sized roof deck. “There’s a lot of foot traffic on the boardwalk,” says Brandon, whose Brandon Architects is based in Costa Mesa. “The roof deck is like the backyard. Having it as a third level gives the owners a lot of privacy and an extra place where they can lounge and entertain.”

“The island is the first thing you see when you walk into the house,” says Fleming of this centerpiece, with outwardly splayed sides.

“We installed the veining so that it leads the eye towards the water views.”

OPPOSITE Matthew Dibble’s abstract painting, hung above the dining table, set the color scheme for the interior. Chairs are Gregorius Pineo; table is from Formations.

The kitchen’s splayed island serves as a dramatic focal point, with the marble surface’s veining leading the eye to the water views beyond. Pendants are Jonathan Browning.

Working project architect Justin Johnston, Brandon created a floor plan that includes the kitchen, dining and living areas on the first floor, which open onto the patio, as well as three ensuite bedrooms on the second level. “The primary bedroom faces the bay,” says Brandon, “and we designed a seating area there with floor-to-ceiling windows on three sides, which opens onto the balcony.” A staircase and an elevator make access easy to the bedrooms, as well as the roof deck.

While the home’s form is clean and rectilinear, Johnston points out that materials make a nod to a warmer, traditional look. “On the exterior, there’s smooth stucco, metal and glass,” Johnston notes, “but we added wood details and textured limestone cladding for softness.”

A Dutch entry door is another nod to historic design. “We put the home’s entry on the side, because nobody wants to waste bayside real estate with a large entrance,” says Brandon. “However, we did give the entrance significance by creating a small courtyard and adding windows. The Dutch door is great for extra light and breezes, and it keeps the owners’ dog inside.”

For the interiors, Newport Beach-based Fleming started with a clean slate. “The clients have deep roots in the Newport Beach area,” Fleming explains, “but they didn’t bring anything here from their previous house. This was a blank canvas.”

Knowing that she wanted to play off Brandon’s homage to waterfront living, Fleming also found inspiration from an abstract painting by Matthew Dibble that

now hangs above the dining table. “The art reminded us of sailboats,” Fleming says, “and we took our color palette of neutrals with touches of blues from the painting.”

Grounding the interior with lightly scraped white French oak flooring, Fleming added touches such as shiplap cladding for the firstfloor walls and a dramatically veined, marbleclad island for the kitchen. “The island is the first thing you see when you walk into the house,” says Fleming of this centerpiece, with outwardly splayed sides. “We installed the veining so that it leads the eye towards the water views.” The kitchen’s bleached walnut cabinetry speaks of sandy hues, and was designed to maximize storage in the compact home, including elements such as tower cabinets that go all the way down to the counters on either side of the range.

ABOVE The primary suite’s glassenclosed sitting area has swivel chairs, allowing the owners full views of the bay’s boating activities.

LEFT White oak high-gloss resin cabinetry and John Pomp hand-blown pendant lights add sparkle to the primary bath.

BELOW A rattan bed by Palacek adds a beachy touch to the primary bedroom. Bedding is from Kerry Joyce Textiles.

For furnishings, Fleming suggested comfortable pieces with subtle curves that are transitional in style, warmed by woods and natural materials, bridging the contemporary and traditional divide. A custom sectional and oak coffee table anchor a gathering spot in front of the living area’s fireplace. In the dining area, a Formations French oak table balances on metal legs, surrounded by a custom banquette and rustic rattan-backed chairs by Gregorius Pineo. “These chairs have seats that are faux leather,” the interior designer says, “which are perfect for the beach. We also used Perennials outdoor fabrics for most of the upholstery. You can sit anywhere in this house with a wet bathing suit.”

Upstairs, the primary bedroom is a serene retreat, anchored by a rattan Palacek bed that speaks of beach mats and sunscreen. The glass-walled seating

ABOVE The roof deck, with glorious views, is the home’s de facto backyard, offering privacy from the pedestrian traffic below.

area is the perfect spot for morning coffee thanks to lounge-worthy custom chairs that swivel for best views of the bay’s boat traffic. While one of the guest bedrooms sleeps two in a standard bed, Fleming outfitted the other one with custom bunkbeds that sleep four, detailed with wood ladders, trundle-style storage and reading lights.

Fleming also furnished the outdoor spaces—the bayside patio, balcony and roof deck—with inviting seating, lounge chairs and tables, offering the owners the ability to live outdoors as well as in.

Completed earlier this year, the new home has proven to be a warm haven for the owners and a fresh start on the water. “This was a turn-key project,” says Fleming of the home.

“All the owners had to do was light the candles and pop the champagne.” CH

RIGHT Set up for visiting grandchildren, a guest bedroom features custom bunk beds, designed with a subtle nautical touch.

RIGHT Blossom, the Goldendoodle, welcomes visitors at the massive redwood entrance. COUPAR locally sourced the Spanish Colonial Chajul bench from SummerHouse Showroom in Mill Valley.

OPPOSITE Covered walkways with Japanesestyle gable roofs descend from the garage to the house. Like in the Far East, Bull designed these structures as protection from winter downpours and the summer sun.

Marin MODERNISM

COUPAR HONORS A HENRIK H BULL CLASSIC

TEXT KENDRA BOUTELL | PHOTOGRAPHY PAUL DYER

A BAY TRADITION MODERNIST MASTERPIECE, designed by architect Henrik H Bull, hides away in the verdant San Rafael hills. The circa 1966 redwood home showcases a low-gabled roof bisected by a ridge skylight running the length of the building. From the expansive glass windows, the residence looks out on pastoral Marin, punctuated by Frank Lloyd Wright’s landmark Civic Center. The current homeowners were fortunate to meet Bull before he passed away in 2013 when

they found him wandering in their garden. It became a collaborative friendship with Bull, advising on the property’s stewardship.

The occupants, an artist, her software engineer husband, and dogs Lola and Blossom, wanted to update the interiors while honoring the architect’s vision and highlighting an extensive collection of regional art. They turned to San Francisco-based design firm COUPAR. Principal Teresa Kintz and Design Associate Vita Wilson gave their clients a

ABOVE The homeowners preserved Bull’s original kitchen carpentry. In the hallway, Kintz and Wilson combined Brooklyn-based Ercole Home’s ephemeral Mystic Buffet with a mixed-media abstract by Jamie Madison.

color palette of warm neutrals interspersing shades of indigo and rust. They juxtaposed mid-century silhouettes with artisanal furnishings.

Kintz and Wilson selected a vintage wood bench from Guatemala for the entry. They upholstered the back in Rogers & Goffigon’s blue wool blend to compliment glass artist Rob Snyder’s installation of amber and bronze starling birds flying toward the dining room. COUPAR grounded the dining space with a navy wool rug on which they contrasted an oblong dining table crafted from reclaimed marine wood with the sculptural Saarinen Executive Chair. A contemporary Italian chandelier of crystal pendants dances over the table. The dining area overlooks a sunken double-height living area, and Bull’s low built-in redwood cabinetry serves as a room divider.

Descending into the living room, a trio of artworks pops against the pale, lime-washed wall, an abstract by Suzie Buchholz and Andrew Faulkner’s paintings of the De Young and Florence. Bull’s brick back wall, centering a fireplace flanked by redwood shelving, dominate the room. Kintz and Wilson opposed this with a streamlined sofa upholstered in

RIGHT Sharon Paster’s rock painting bridges the dining and living areas. A Holland & Sherry linen covers the inside back and seat on the dining chairs while their contemporary patterned wool in a lapis colorway embellishes the outside back.

a camel-colored performance fabric from Great Plains, accompanied by a leather Carl Hansen lounge chair. A hand-tufted taupe wool rug anchors the space, while a credenza from Model No. in walnut with scalloped carving adds extra storage.

A long glass-walled hallway, one of Bull’s signature architectural elements, links public and private spaces. It functions as an art gallery with an abstract landscape by Brendan Stuart Burns, echoing the view outside. For the tranquil bedroom, artisan Terry Bryant finished the walls with Venetian plaster, and the gable windows frame a redwood grove. CH

BELOW In the hallway, a wool runner from The Rug Establishment in tones of blue, graduating from dark to light, resists paw prints. The front terrace landscaping emulates the wall art.

OPPOSITE The 3/4-acre property includes a pool with two changing sheds Bull designed. When the homeowners wanted to add a guest cottage, he sketched it out, and Feldman Architecture will complete the project posthumously.

LEFT An azure wool and silk carpet from The Rug Company picks up the colors of the atmospheric painting by Rebecca Katz and Katy Kuhn’s pair of abstracts. JG Switzer’s artisanal hand-felted wool throw dresses the bed.

BELOW A floor-to-ceiling glass window in the primary bathroom shower looks out to the rear terraced garden and beyond to Marin’s romantic rolling hills.

Out & About

CALIFORNIA’S SPECIAL EVENTS FOR THE DESIGN INDUSTRY

WHERE THE WILD THINGS GROW A Magical Evening At Santa Barbara’s Lotusland

Lotusland presented their annual event in July with a filled to capacity crowd. Lotusland’s mission is to preserve and enhance the distinctive estate and botanical gardens of Madame Ganna Walska. Lotusland educates and inspires visitors with its collections, sustainabe horticulture practices, and plant conservation. Co-Chairs included Ashley Adelson, Merryl Brown, Joseph Marek, and Caroline Thompson. Guests were able to walk the gardens while enjoying cocktails on the grand lawn, followed by a celebratory meal by DUO Caterers. The evening program included a dynamic live auction with guest auctioneer Geoff Green and Special appearances by James Brayton Hall of the Garden Conservancy and August Bernstein of Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, A Belmond Hotel. The evening concluded with a sunset farewell in the beauty of the Garden featuring the night blooming Victoria amazonica Amazon Waterlily.

1. Lynda Weinman, and Bruce Heavin

2. Jennifer Convy, Susan McFadden and Caroline Thompson D’Arcy

3. Mary Ta and Belle Hahn

4. Lotusland Board Chair, David Jones, and wife Judy

5. Caroline R. Thompson and Caroline Thompson D’Arcy

6. Belmond Encanto Santa Barbara and Belmond Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons

(a Belmond Hotel in Oxfordshire) Jeannette Williams, August Bernstein, Bob Schwab , Janus Clapoff, and Hima Duggirala

7. Merryl Brown

8. Penelope Bianchi

9. Lotusland Celebrates Co-Chairs: Merryl Brown, Ashley Adelson, Caroline R. Thompson and Joseph Marek

NKBA SO CAL PRESENTS HEALTH AND WELLNESS

NKBA So Cal Teams Up With PIRCH And California Homes Magazine

NKBA So Cal recently presented an event on Health and Wellness, partnering with PIRCH in Mission Viejo and California Homes Magazine, to develop an evening that promotes tranquility and well being. Guests enjoyed healthy light bites and interactive demos from Mr. Steam, Hydro Systems and Environmental Water Systems.

1. Chris Patti, Darius Rangbar, Debra Demskis, John Haggerty, Juliana Adams, Manny Berumen, Brandi Rhoads, Monique Zogaric, Sal Gomez, and Ben Elkin

2. PIRCH in Mission Viejo

3. Chris Patti, Linda McCall, Susan McFadden, and Gene Hogdes

4. Annette Reeves, Jennifer Wehage, and Gene Hogdes

5. Michele Kafer, Kimberly Smith, and Sabina Subzwari

6. Julie Mataya and Moon Shirvanian

7. Just one of the delightful treats, a much needed massage for the guests.

8. Jeanne Kelly, Sandi Clark, Timarie Taylor, Frank Montes and Vivian Schuetz

9. NKBA So Cal Programs Chair Shannon Ratcliffe conducts the raffle for wonderful prizes.

10. Rick Campos, Shannon Ratcliffe, Chris Roberto, and Kenny Mach

ELEGANT HOME ENTERTAINING

Caroline Thompson, Co-Founder Of Cabana Home, Holds A Master Class On Gracious Entertaining At The El Encanto, A Belmond Hotel In Santa Barbara

A special event was held at the El Encanto, a Belmond Hotel, on elegant home entertaining led by renowned interior designer Caroline Thompson, co-founder of Santa Barbara’s Cabana Home. The Master Class was held in the hotel’s Signature Suite, Oak View, but completely transformed by Caroline’s unique style. Her gracious entertaining skills included a talk on how to build incredible tablescapes with an Instagram-worthy table setting on view, including tips and tricks on modern etiquette. The event was capped with a Build Your Own Bouquet opportunity to take home.

1. Caroline Thompson, Cabana Home

2. Sarah Stokes

3. Sharlyn Vande Beek

4. Rebecca Anderson

5. Arlene Montesano

OUTDOOR LIVING 2023: A CELEBRATION OF SUMMER The Pacific Design Center Launches It’s First Summer Market Event

The summer kick off event began on the Main Lobby stage with “Designing Exterior Spaces According to Climate” panel including superstar interior designers Lonni Paul and Brooke Warner, moderated by Jennifer Convy, CEO of Women in Luxury Design and sponsored by California Homes Magazine It was a packed house followed by a gorgeous reception in the Sutherland Perennials Showroom.

1. Spero Plavoukos SVP, The Pacific Design Center and Maria Hughes, Digital marketing director for the Pacific Design Center

2. PDC panelists Jennifer Convy, Lonni Paul, and Brooke Wagner

3. PDC panelists and crowd

4. Jennifer Convy, Loni Paul, and David Dalton

5. Group shot of the team at Sutherland Perennials

6. Crowd enjoying panelists

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