Posts by Sarah Lynch
It’s a rare designer who uses the term “data points” when asked about her sources of inspiration. But Shane Reilly is a rare combination of right-brained creativity (studying art and American history as an undergraduate at Stanford University) and left-brained logic; she got her MBA after putting in a few entry-level years during the dot-com era, then launched Decorati, an online resource connecting designers with product showrooms and potential clients.
Bay Area furniture store, Ruby Livingdesign's best-known upholstery line may have been Mitchell Gold, until now. Their new partnership with Belgian-born Tom Verellen expands the offerings of Verellen Collection's sofas, chairs and beds.
There's nothing better than two of your favorite things coming together at once: a mashup of Aretha Franklin and The Scissor Sisters, Baz Luhrmann directing The Great Gatsby or these cute new kicks, a one-two combo from Converse and Marimekko.
I'll admit that I was the biggest skeptic in the room when it was announced that Jeff Lewis of Bravo's Flipping Out! was going to be the opening keynote speaker for 2011 Design SF. Not even an overbooked rsvp list of 400-plus names could convince me that he was worthy of a spot given in the past to the likes of such design luminaries as Bunny Williams, Mayer Rus and Margaret Russell... but I was wrong.
This weekend, Compostmodern, the biennial design and sustainability conference created by the San Francisco chapter of AIGA (the professional association for design), delivered more thought-provoking messages in a day than it would be possible to absorb, without the help of this poem by moderator Alissa Walker.
My latest fantasy home is a brand-new LEED-certified, 3-story townhouse tucked in the woods of the Presidio with 3 bedrooms, a garage and a heated roofdeck.
