Right At Home
Author:Jennifer MehditashIn Caitlin Moran’s own home, our California Home + Design Award 2016 winner for interior design, less than 3000 sq. ft, textiles form the foundation for a creative interior
Although designing her own home has been a very different experience for Moran, it’s an evolving and fluid process through which she can express her signature style, while creating a space for her family to call home for years to come.
Photographer: Bess Friday
Lastly, in the master retreat and bath, Moran’s renovations provided the ideal refuge for the couple to escape. With a very quiet color palette, the day’s reflections on the shimmery, grasscloth wallpaper are the only movement in this otherwise peaceful retreat.
Photographer: Bess Friday
In the twin boys’ bedroom, Moran chose Quadrille textiles for the large roman shades, which brought in soft blue tones that complement the wall-to-wall Stark carpeting. In the master ensuite bathroom, a Victoria & Albert tub.
Photographer: Bess Friday
In a world where everyone is hyper-connected via technology, it was important to Airbnb that Gensler design each space based on the very philosophy that drives this company...bringing people together in a sustaining manner.
Photographer: Jasper Sanidad
Included in the open floor plan are multifunctional rooms, such as a rotating gallery, a theater for tech-talks, a dining area boasting spectacular views of the San Francisco skyline, and a library, which was planned to house a reference collection of publications on shared-economy culture.
Photographer: Jasper Sanidad
With a home-like quality in the full-service kitchen, equipped with American Standard and Grohe fixtures, everyone is encouraged to gather and break bread together.
Photographer: Jasper Sanidad
Gensler provided multiple indoor areas for collaboration.
Photographer: Jasper Sanidad
The team at Gensler created multiple collaborative spaces that captured the look and feel of favored Airbnb listings from around the world.
Photographer: Jasper Sanidad
The common thread that unites the interior is a geometric railway-like pattern that crosses the overhead atrium and windows, echoing the existing tracks in the surrounding outdoor plaza.
Photographer: Jasper Sanidad
The initial design scheme drew from the history of the building and site where there once existed a paper warehouse and battery plant.
Photographer: Jasper Sanidad
The founders of San Francisco-based tech company, Airbnb, gave the designers at Gensler a challenge to create an office that would mirror the company’s unique culture, values. Outdoors was no different, with the exterior space design by Meyer+Silberberg.
Photographer: Drew Kelly